Find Out Who Is Dom Hemingway Is In New Featurette & Photos

In a nervy, brash, one-of-a-kind comedic performance, Jude Law introduces the world to DOM HEMINGWAY – steely London safecracker, hell-bent hedonist, profane pontificator and legendary live wire – as he hits the streets after 12 years in jail for keeping his mouth shut and protecting his boss.

Now, Dom’s ready to unleash everything and collect what he’s owed. But when his long-awaited payday doesn’t go as planned, Dom tries to reconnect with his long lost daughter – only to be tempted again by the three things Dom Hemingway knows how to do best: cracking safes, busting heads, and breaking hearts.

Law – a two-time Oscar nominee for COLD MOUNTAIN and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY – underwent a total transformation into the manic yet paradoxically poignant role. With a dart-player’s paunch, broken nose, lamb-chop sideburns, bad teeth and a nasty scar running beneath a blood-red eye, it is hard to believe that beneath Dom’s disheveled exterior and sportive contempt lies the same actor famed across the globe as a romantic lead.

Law spared nothing to get at the sheer, larger-than-life Dom-ness of Dom Hemingway. “He’s an explosive, poetic, scary, yet strangely funny man,” Law muses. “He’s what we all are in our essence, this sort of weird make up of good and bad, but on a more expansive level.”

The high-voltage comedy of the character first came to life in the mind of writer/director Richard Shepard, known for the Golden Globe-nominated THE MATADOR. “I liked the name Dom. It seemed interesting,” Shepard reflects. “And Hemingway had allusions to something macho.”

A large part of the film’s look is Dom’s look, which became a collaboration between Shepard, Law, costume designer Julian Day and hair and make-up artist Wakana Yoshihara.

Go behind the scenes of Shepard’s DOM HEMINGWAY, and meet the man behind Jude Law’s most controversial role yet.

Having embedded himself so intently, Law says he won’t soon forget Dom Hemingway or the surprising outcome of his escapades. “Playing Dom was an exhausting process and I developed some very bad habits which took a while to shake off,” he confesses.

“But I learned a lot from him. I’ll miss him. I loved being him and loved having him in my life. That sounds terribly sentimental, but he’s got a quality that is very attractive. He can’t help but be himself, even if that self is very loud and sometimes appalling. The best way to describe Dom Hemingway is that he is indescribable.”

Starring Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Emilia Clarke and Demian Bichir, DOM HEMINGWAY will be out in theaters on April 2.

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