Jude Law says Star Wars made him want to be an actor

Jude Law as Yonn-Rogg in Captain Marvel — (Image credit: Marvel Studios)

Jude Law says Star Wars is why he started acting.

"Probably the reason I started acting was running around a playground pretending to be Luke or Han or Chewbacca or Vader – that literally was what I was playing and acting as a child," Law recently told Entertainment Weekly. "And so being in it is both kind of surreal and seems very second-nature in some ways. And then also slightly out of body."

It hasn't been confirmed whether or not his character is a Jedi – though he looks very Jedi-like in a first-look scene shown at Star Wars Celebration.

Added Law: "Star Wars, for me, held a very particular place because it was as much a part of my childhood as going to school. Literally as far back as I remember, I remember having Star Wars in my life. It was the toys I played with, it was the toys I envied my friends had. I remember one of them having an AT-AT walker and I was never going to get given an AT-AT, so I'd go over and play at his house so I could use the AT-AT walker."

The actor became known as something of a heartthrob years ago before eventually going on to play (a rather scary-looking version of) Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy and Yon Rogg in Captain Marvel. It's only fitting that he would eventually find his way into the Star Wars franchise.