Expect to see a lot of Law with six new movies

The releases are a coincidence of scheduling, the actor says.
NEW YORK (AP) -- He's Jude the Far From Obscure.
Two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law already can be seen in "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" and "I (Heart) Huckabees." Next comes "Alfie." And soon he'll be in "Closer" and "The Aviator" while supplying the title voice in "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events."
Hey, Jude, what's with all these films?
"It's not ideal for me that they come out all one after the other in four or five months," says Law, his brow furrowing a tad over those riveting blue eyes. "I did them all because I found them very different -- different kinds of films, different kinds of parts. And I hope people recognize the variety rather than the onslaught."
The 31-year-old actor, who made the six movies over two years, says it's just a coincidence of studio scheduling that they're coming out so close together. And he hopes one doesn't necessarily "step on the others' toes."
But he does see a "funny side" to it all.
"People keep saying to me now with the release of them all, 'Gosh, you've been so busy.' And, in fact, since March of this year, I have not worked. I've just been taking time off, at home with my children and traveling. And I don't work again until December."
That's when he tackles the role of Jack Burden, the reporter-narrator in the planned remake of "All the King's Men" starring Sean Penn -- which Law promises will be closer to Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel than the Academy Award-winning 1949 original.
Downtime
After six films back to back, he realized it was time to have some downtime and be a father. But he denies that the foremost reason he dove headlong into all this work was to seek refuge from the domestic turmoil of splitting from wife Sadie Frost, with whom he has three children.
"The work that came up was really exciting. I suddenly got to a point where I thought, perhaps greedily, that I didn't want to turn any of it down. And it was logistically possible and doable that I could work on all of them," he says. "And I suppose, yes, because of certain things going on in my private life -- not so private life -- you know, it was also a way of channeling energy into a positive thing rather than a negative thing."
Law recoils a bit when it's suggested that he's hitting his stride with his career, but allows:
"I felt in the middle of those films that I was able to sit back on instincts and experience that I, perhaps prior to then, didn't feel I had. You feel, I suppose, like anything, if you exercise a muscle you feel more and more confident that you can use it. And that was certainly the case in the middle and towards the end of this bout of films. I felt well-exercised."
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