It’s Jude Law, who takes on the role of a transvestite supermodel in Rage, a film by director Sally Potter:

Part of the subject matter of RAGE is the ugly use of beauty in the pursuit of profit. Drugged by Marketing, sapped by fear of aging, conned by the cult of celebrity… image becomes all.

Jude Law, whose beauty has sometimes been held against him as an actor, made the courageous decision to accept the role of Minx – a “celebrity super-model” and took on a kind of hyper-beauty for this persona… a ‘female’ beauty which gradually unravels as the story unfolds.

Strangely, the more he became a ‘she’, coiffed and made-up – the more naked was his performance. There was great strength in his willingness to make himself vulnerable. It was an extraordinarily intense part of the shoot.

Premiering later this month at the Berlinale, Rage also stars Lily Cole as well as Judi Dench, Steve Buscemi, Dianne Wiest, and John Leguizamo. Check out Jude and Lily below:

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