Jude Law fights back at Charlie Brooker & Marina Hyde – Repo Men Interview with Forest Whitaker

Jude Law & Forest Whitaker talk to Paul Byrne for www.Movies.ie I think I may have hit a nerve. Jude Law is on a roll. It might even be a rant. Sitting beside the Zen-like Forest Whitaker, Law is coming across like a yapping terrier being allowed to yank on his leash for a few minutes by his patient, stoically silent master. The reason Jude Law is letting off a little steam is Marina Hyde. And Charlie Booker. And all those other media smartasses who have dared suggest that, when it comes to the world’s trouble spots, perhaps celebrities aren’t the best and brightest to send in on rescue missions. Booker’s rather fine BBC2 show Newswipe had a swipe at such celebrity charity work on a recent episode, Hyde being invited along to discuss the issue in particular, Law’s recent trips to Afghanistan with English filmmaker-turned-activist Jeremy Gilley, founder of the Peace One Day project which aims to declare one day a year free of conflict and war. Law is clearly unimpressed with Hyde’s work both her Lost In Showbiz column in The Guardian, and, perhaps more significantly, her recent book, Celebrity How Entertainers Took Over The World And Why We Need An Exit Strategy. It’s a book that takes some well-aimed shots at such popular celebrity past times as pets, politics and parenthood; our glamourous heroes’ strong hold on the media and their loose understanding of medicine; their own feisty-verging-on-fabulous wars on terror, and their sterling work in the field of making a …