Jason Bateman as Vince, Jude Law as Jake in the 'Black Rabbit' finale. Courtesy of Netflix Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the Black Rabbit finale.] On paper, Jude Law and Jason Bateman share a surprising number of things in common. They're both proud fathers to young adult children. They both have startlingly blue eyes. And despite growing up on opposite sides of the Atlantic in the '70s and '80s, they both started acting young and found success quickly in America: Bateman made a name for himself as a teen actor (and the DGA's youngest-ever director) on The Hogan Family, while Law broke out as a heartthrob at the turn of the millennium in The Talented Mr. Ripley. Related Stories TV Junichi Okada's Epic Netflix Samurai Survival Drama Promises Blood, Honor and Hype Movies Guillermo del Toro on Taking Inspiration from Korean Cinema as 'Frankenstein' Makes Imax Bow in Busan But while they presumably ran in the same Hollywood circles for years, Law and Bateman had never sat down to have an in-person conversation until they were just days away from playing badly behaved brothers in Netflix's Black Rabbit, which they also executive produced. Created by King Richard screenwriter Zach Baylin and his wife Kate Susman, the eight-part series stars Law as Jake Friedkin, the savvy owner of Black Rabbit, a fictional Brooklyn-based restaurant with an exclusive VIP lounge. Jake's plans of parlaying the success of the clubby restaurant into running fancier establishments are upended by the unexpected reappearance of his chaotic older brother - and former business partner - Vince (Bateman), who had fled the state years earlier to avoid paying a hefty debt to menacing mobster Joe Mancuso (Troy Kotsur). While he initially returns to New York in need of urgent help from his seemingly well-to-do younger brother, Vince quickly learns that Jake has been hemorrhaging cash. "As we all know, it's fucking hard to make money nowadays, and to maintain a lifestyle and that presentation of who you want to be," Law tells The Hollywood Reporter in a joint interview with Bateman (who also directed the first two episodes). "I like the idea that, in the end, these two guys from Coney Island are still just 'chancers' - and one is maybe more honest than the other." Vince's return quickly unravels Jake's carefully curated life, thrusting both of them back into the dark underbelly of the Big Apple. Over eight episodes, the brothers find themselves at the mercy of Mancuso - a former family friend - and his vicious henchmen, and they are forced to confront the emotional scars of growing up with an alcoholic father, who had gambled away his own restaurant. Despite vowing to do better, Vince reaches a point of no return in episode six. After Mancuso's mercurial son, Junior (Forrest Weber), threatens to kill him and his loved ones, Vince reluctantly agrees to help Junior carry out an armed, masked robbery at Black Rabbit, where Jake is hosting a party with millions of dollars' worth of expensive jewelry. That fateful robbery, first teased in a flash-forward during the premiere, is doomed from the start. Wes (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù), Jake's long-time artist friend and one of Black Rabbit's biggest investors, gets shot and later succumbs to his injuries in the hospital. And in a last-ditch attempt to stop Junior from shooting Jake, who recognized Vince even through his ski mask, Vince shoots Junior in the head and then flees the scene. Knowing that his life will never be the same, Vince secretly gets his affairs in order. He makes sure his estranged daughter is taken care of. He comes clean to Jake about killing their father decades ago with a bowling ball to stop him from abusing their mother. (Jake reveals he knew all along, and loved Vince anyway.) In a bittersweet final twist, after confessing to the police over the phone about his involvement in the robbery, Vince jumps off the roof of Black Rabbit, leaving a shell-shocked Jake to grapple with feeling untethered to - and unburdened by - his brother for the very first time. Just hours ahead of the show's world premiere at TIFF, Law and Bateman opened up about the agony and ecstasy of their first collaboration, which the latter describes as a twisty tale about "what we forgive in those who we are related to." *** You both boarded Black Rabbit as stars and executive producers less than two years ago, but Jude was attached first after working with Zach Baylin on Justin Kurzel's The Order. Jude, is it true that you called Jason up and asked him to play your onscreen brother-in-crime? JUDE LAW (Laughs.) Not quite that directly. We knew he'd been approached and had seen the potential that we all saw. The initial conversations were, "Please come on and direct this," because we knew that it