Strange case of Jude Law's sandwiches
Wednesday December 16 2009
Sartorial standards may be slipping these days, but Jude Law was a stickler when it came to getting his character Dr Watson's wardrobe right for the film Sherlock Holmes.
"I made this terrible decision early on when I said I thought Watson should have a starched collar," the actor told me at the film's premiere in Leicester Square. "Then, with it on, I could barely swallow my sandwiches at lunchtime."
The film's director, Guy Ritchie, batted off gripes that the quintessentially British character is played by the American actor Robert Downey Jnr in the film. "The whole idea of actors is that they act," he said, simply. The Welshman Sir Anthony Hopkins managed, after all, to play Richard Nixon.
- Tim Walker
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