Jude Law shares how he ‘bribed’ the child actors on ‘Peter Pan’ set

He found a way to hook ’em.

Jude Law revealed he was under strict instructions not to show his true self while filming “Peter Pan & Wendy” — so the child actors on set remained genuinely afraid of him when he played Captain Hook.

“[Director] David Lowery had the idea of really trying to encourage them not to see me when I wasn’t Hook,” Law, 50, said Tuesday on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

“So I just stayed as Hook the whole time, which was an opportunity just to be really scary and mean. Sounds kind of awful,” “The Holiday” actor admitted.

As Law explains it, it was easier for the young actors not to see him going in and out of character.

“I didn’t want to be talking to a little 6-year-old dude, and then suddenly it’s like, ‘Right. You hate me. I’m Hook. I’m Hook.’ So, instead, I just stuck as Hook,” he reasoned. ” And, yeah, a lot of the reactions you see in the film are their reactions to me for the first time, or as the man himself, you know?”

Law said when filming wrapped, he needed to do something to win over the kids.

“They met Jude at the end,” he laughed. “And I did what every adult should do to bribe children. I hired an ice cream van, and I drove it on-site and gave out ice cream.”

“Nothing like chocolate ice cream to persuade a child you’re alright,” he quipped.

Law said he had a specific vision for Hook, a storybook character that dates back to the early 1900s.

“I wanted him to be sad, I wanted him to be scarred and gnarly and disgusting and scary, and funny too,” Law told Collider. “Like an overheated, angry dad or uncle who, from a kid’s perspective, is just really pathetic and loud.”

The new film, which premiered Friday, stars Alexander Molony as Peter Pan, Ever Anderson as Wendy Darling, and Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell.

“Peter Pan & Wendy” is now streaming on Disney+.