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For actors Jude Law and Jason Bateman, Black Rabbit was the perfect bad bromance

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Jude Law (right) and Jason Bateman in New York in August 2025. The two actors play mutually toxic brothers in Black Rabbit, a new Netflix crime drama set amid the seedy underside of the downtown New York restaurant scene.

Jude Law (right) and Jason Bateman in New York in August 2025. The two actors play mutually toxic brothers in Black Rabbit.

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Melena Ryzik

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NEW YORK – By their own admission, Jude Law and Jason Bateman are not foodies.

And yet, in 2024, they found themselves at a series of tasting menu outings together, choosing among entrees – lamb shank en papillote, a Caribbean-inspired soft-shell crab sandwich – “like we were getting married”, American actor Bateman said. “Like, ‘Do you like that one, honey?’ ‘Ooh, I love it!’”

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