![]() And it led him to painstakingly piece his own addition to the pantheon together, despite barely having set foot in this country. Shepard's fascination with a particular, vocal kind of British gangster is obvious when speaking to him. Reading this on mobile? Click here to view They stand out because the crime tends to be the least interesting part it's the characters and what they go through' This is a guy who's been in prison for 12 years and has abused himself enormously with drugs and alcohol.'" 'The Limey, The Hit and Sexy Beast are three of my favourite movies ever. I said, 'Listen, I think you should gain some weight, I want to show your receding hairline, I don't want to be combing it forward and pretending there's more hair than there really is, sweep it back, put on some weight, get physical. I said, 'You kind of have to go balls-out with it or it's nothing.' Jude saw the challenge: he was scared, but he saw it for what it was. That intrigued me as a director, so we got the concept to Jude and talked about it. He's playing Watson to Holmes but he could also be playing the lead role. He went from being a leading man, a gorgeous leading man, into a sort of character actor. "Here was a guy who, I think, can be reinvented a little bit. So, no paging Keith Lemon then? "Jude was at the top of my list," confirms Shepard. Which in London cuts out about 90% of actors." "I also wanted a certain type of actor who'd never played a gangster or appeared in that type of film. "I wanted a very specific age type," Shepard says. This new direction made Shepard keen to cast Law and the actor more receptive to a role in a comparatively low-budget movie. It confirms a sense that the former Notting Hill carouser and earnest romantic lead is reinventing himself as something a bit more interesting. Law digs his teeth into the various fleshy parts of Dom and has earned enthusiastic notices wherever the film has screened. In the middle of it all is Jude Law's Dom, a man with an apparently legendary organ but a more obviously loquacious tongue, swollen gut and a pair of mutton chops so retro-mod they should come with their own Lambretta. ![]() It's a brash, mouthy affair with an ear for lyrical profanity and an eye for the ridiculous. The story, which begins with that very monologue, goes on to tell of a seasoned south London crim released from jail into a series of chaotic gangland set pieces. ![]() The guy with the knob that required grand oratory was Dom Hemingway, and this week the film that bears his name arrives on the big screen. "So suddenly I'm like: 'Who is this guy?'" 'It just poured out of me: it could have been a one-act play, really," says the 47-year-old writer and director. It arrived when Shepard wrote a monologue in which the character boasted about his penis. "My cock – I can write about my cock forever!" Richard Shepard is revisiting a eureka moment, the point he realised he had created a character that could support a film.
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