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Jude Law Takes a Tumble Getting Off a Water Taxi in Venice

The actor tripped on his way to the Venice Film Festival on Monday.

Actor Jude Law dramatically lost his footing as he was getting out of a water taxi in Venice. The incident happened on Monday when Law, in town for this week’s Venice Film Festival, was disembarking from a motoscafo with his team. Video footage shows a woman confidently exiting the speedboat, but when Law attempts to follow he loses his footing and takes a fall into the dock instead. Luckily, the 52-year-old actor’s quick reflexes saved the day and he managed to break the fall with his hands and continue on his way, unharmed but perhaps a bit embarrassed by the ordeal. Law is in Venice to promote his latest film, The Wizard of the Kremlin, in which he portrays Russian President Vladimir Putin. Based on the 2022 novel of the same name, the film focuses on the dictator’s rise to power in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, and also stars Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, and Jeffrey Wright.