Jude Law Gets His Big Break in 'Genius' Clip
“I wasn’t even gonna come. I prefer to get my rejections in the mail,” aspiring writer Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) tells publisher Max Perkins (Colin Firth) in this clip from Genius, opening in theaters on Friday. But Wolfe has a surprise coming: Perkins, who also discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, actually recognizes that Wolfe could be a great American writer. Based on a true story, Genius chronicles the friendship between the hard-partying Wolfe, author of the 1929 novel Look Homeward, Angel, and his famous editor. What began as a working relationship turned into a kind of mutual obsession, with both men ultimately neglecting the rest of their lives and pouring all of their energies into Wolfe’s sprawling manuscripts.
“Wolfe was famously raucous, loud, drunken, lecherous,” Law said about his character at the film’s premiere, adding jokingly, “which I knew nothing about and had to research for months.”
Written by Josh Logan (Gladiator, Skyfall), Genius also stars Nicole Kidman as Wolfe’s lover, Aline Bernstein; Laura Linney as Max Perkins’s wife, Louise; Guy Pearce as F. Scott Fitzgerald; and Dominic West as Ernest Hemingway.
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