Jude Law, Jason Bateman react to 'jarring' transformation into punk band (with help from the Stro...

Law sported a wig (and laid down vocals with Strokes musician Albert Hammond, Jr.) in the new TV show's Batemandirected music video featuring rabbit heads. Jude

Law sported a wig (and laid down vocals with Strokes musician Albert Hammond, Jr.) in the new TV show's Bateman-directed music video featuring rabbit heads.

Jude Law, Jason Bateman react to 'jarring' transformation into punk band (with help from the Strokes) in Black Rabbit

Law sported a wig (and laid down vocals with Strokes musician Albert Hammond, Jr.) in the new TV show's Bateman-directed music video featuring rabbit heads.

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- Jason Bateman and Jude Law break down their transformation into a '90s punk band.

- Bateman directed a music video in *Black Rabbit*, featuring Law in a wig and singing a song written by the Strokes' guitarist.

- "It was just run-and-gun, grabbing textural stuff on the streets," Bateman tells EW.

The new Netflix show* Black Rabbit* is a wild ride through the twist-filled, crime-ridden underbelly of New York City's hard-partying nightlife scene — but perhaps the biggest curveball came amid Jason Bateman and Jude Law saving what was arguably their wildest day of shooting for last.

For their final time together on the set of the miniseries, Bateman and a freshly blonde-wigged Law kissed production goodbye in hard-rocking style. The producer-star duo radically transformed into the Black Rabbits, their characters' '90s punk band, for a black-and-white music video incorporating Bateman's directing, Law's vocals, the Strokes musician Albert Hammond, Jr.'s songwriting, and a disturbing gaggle of bunny-head-wearing extras.

"It was originally scripted as just an old video that's up on a monitor in the club. I thought it might be interesting to do a hard cut into their music video, and have the audience ask, 'Where the hell are we?'" Bateman tells ** with a smile as he reflects on the largely improvised sequence.

Shot on 16mm film, the music video briefly plays during the beginning of episode 2, before things really get cooking for Jake (Law), a restauranteur forced to confront his deeply buried misdeeds when his brother, Vince (Bateman), returns to New York City with life-altering baggage of his own.

Jude Law and Jason Bateman rock out in 'Black Rabbit' music video scene.

Throughout the show, the brothers' turbulent relationship comes to a head, and leads to tragic consequences for many around them at the hands of a criminal enterprise (led by Oscar winner Troy Kotsur) seeking an unpaid debt. The video, however, allowed the cast to blow off steam from the siblings' heavy trajectory in let-loose fashion.

"The rabbit heads, Jude climbing on a cage, all of that stuff I wanted to find haphazardly, like I assume videos were shot back in the day," Bateman says of his approach to helming the video. "It was just run-and-gun, grabbing textural stuff on the streets. I wanted to react to what the graffiti on the sidewalk would tell us."

Sporting luscious bad-boy locks befitting of a '90s grunge icon, Law's channeling of rock-and-roll greatness didn't stop on set.

"They have all sorts of machines that can tune you up. I dove into those," Law says, after chuckling at the thought of his own voice playing in the series. "It always appealed to me, and I got very immersed in the idea of the backstory to these brothers, that they had this band. Jake had aspirations that it was going to be his ticket, that he'd be this big rock star."

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Even if circumstances got in the way and the in-series band never saw massive success, Law still got to experience what it felt like to be a real musician during the duration of the shoot.

Law remembers the team reaching out to the aforementioned Strokes guitarist to work with them on a song for the series, and says they were surprised when he not only agreed, but over-delivered. "He was so cooperative," recalls Law. "He said, 'How *many* songs do you want?' And it's like, 'One? Two?'"

Their work together resulted in two sonic offerings, one that plays in the music video and the other that holds the emotional core of a later episode that includes a key scene between Vince and Jake at their mother's house.

Jude Law sings in 'Black Rabbit'.

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"He knew the story, but he wrote the lyrics and then he came to New York. He and Jude had a couple of days in a recording session, and I think Jude loved it — and had an incredible voice!" co-showrunner and co-writer, Kate Susman, adds.

Hammond, Jr. enjoyed working with them so much that he even has a cameo (alongside Susman) during a scene at a bar, with the two playing a couple who recognize Vince from his glory days.

Speaking of familiarity, Law feels that the bond they all cultivated over the course of shooting made the music video shoot all the more memorable. "We all knew each other well by then," the star says. "Goofing around, doing a punk-rock video, lo-fi was a great way to go out."

*Black Rabbit* is now streaming on Netflix.

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