Senior Film and Media Reporter
Ron Howard, Sydney Sweeney and the cast of 'Eden' choose who they would be stranded on an island with
Jude Law doesn't want to take all the credit.
He delivers one of many go-for-broke performances in Ron Howard's star-studded "Eden," a stranger-than-fiction survival thriller about European colonists searching for new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galapagos. As the official logline explains, "They believe they've found paradise — only to discover that hell is other people." And yes, it is actually based on true events.
Although his character Friedrich Ritter, a doctor who lives in total isolation with his wife (Vanessa Kirby) before all those other people show up, is fully nude in one scene of the film, Law stressed that he wasn't the only actor on set who took a creative leap of faith.
