Jude Law stalked his 'The Order' co-star Nicholas Hoult for a day to prepare for his role as federal agent Terry Husk.

The movie's director Justin Kurzel handed out various tasks to the cast in of the crime thriller film about a white supremacist mob, including having Jude follow Nicholas, who plays neo-Nazi activist Bob Mathews, around without him batting an eyelid.

Speaking at a press conference at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday (31.08.24), Nicholas said: “I’ve never … prepared in this way before, where Justin gave us tasks.

“I just found out on the boat here [that] one of Jude’s tasks was to follow me for the day. I just found out. But he was trailing me for a day and I didn’t know about it.”

The pair also didn't speak to each other for many weeks on set.

He shared: “The crew did a really great job of keeping us [in] different forces … throughout the film."

Looking at Jude, he continued: “I remember seeing you in the rearview mirror of my car and then following you. But otherwise, [the] first time we spoke was during the scene where we first interact, and so that gave a great energy to those moments.”

‘The Order’ is an adaptation of the 1989 non-fiction book ‘The Silent Brotherhood’ by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt, which tells the story of a string of increasingly violent bank robberies as well as counterfeiting operations and armoured car heists that terrify frightens communities throughout the Pacific Northwest in 1983.

A synopsis of the book says: “As baffled law enforcement agents scrambled for answers, a lone FBI agent, stationed in the sleepy, picturesque town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, comes to believe the crimes are not the work of traditional, financially motivated criminals, but of a group of dangerous domestic terrorists, inspired by a radical, charismatic leader, plotting a devastating war against the federal government of the United States.”