Jude Law has called out the way that he was objectified during his early career — and claimed that if he were a woman, “people would have been told off.”
According to Variety, Jude almost turned down the role because he was wary of being typecast as a “pretty party boy,” and feared Hollywood wouldn’t take him seriously.
Five years later, Jude was named People’s Sexiest Man Alive, and he has now admitted that he was “frustrated” by this hyper-fixation on his looks. He went on to theorize that people wouldn’t have gotten away with speaking about him in this way if he were a woman.
One of the examples of Jude’s objectification cited in the profile is when he was left squirming during his first ever appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show back in 2004.
He jokingly folded his upper lip inward as he quipped: “I’ve got great lips!”
Do you think the way that Jude was objectified in the early ‘00s would have been called out if he were a woman? Let us know in the comments!