Jude Law stars as transvestite in ‘Rage’

Set to debut at the Berlin Film Festival next week, we have Jude Law (photo right) dressed as his transvestite character for the new film Rage

The film, in which Law appears as a cross-dressing supermodel called Minx, is a murder mystery set in the New York fashion-house world.

Dame  Judi Dench who also stars, said the film was “the most unusual piece of work I’ve ever done”.

It examines the greed of the beauty industry. It also stars Lily Cole as a starlet called Lettuce Leaf. The film is set over seven days in which a young blogger Michelangelo shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his mobile phone at a New York fashion house.

When a model dies on the runway and a murder investigation begins, Michelangelo’s mobile phone footage becomes evidence.

Director Sally Potter was impressed and grateful to Law’s “courageous decision” to take on the role.

She wrote on her blog: “Jude, whose beauty has sometimes been held against him as an actor, made the courageous decision to accept the role 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.”

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