Usually when a celebrity sparks a security alert it's due to overzealous fans swarming them or paparazzi getting too close. Not because the on duty manager at the Odeon in Bath thinks you're a threatening youth or terrorist.

Jude Law however proved the exception to this rule yesterday when he popped out to see a film and inadvertently caused a minor situation.

He had come to watch Kathryn Bigelow's awards contender Detroit and, understandably, was hoping to remain under the radar, so decided to wear a hoodie. The only problem was that it led to the cinema's manager thinking he was "acting suspiciously".

Cinema attendant Connor Walter relayed the whole bizarre story to BBC News and said that, fortunately, he recognised Jude straightaway.

"The man spent a good 10 minutes just standing around on the phone, then he came and bought a ticket from one of my colleagues, and my colleague who served him the ticket did not recognise him, nobody did," he explained.

"Then he came to the bottom of the stairs and I tore his ticket, I looked at his eyes and recognised him, then he said 'thanks' and I just knew it was him within an instant."

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Connor said that he waited until after the movie had finished to ask for a photo and even wrote the actor a "kind note", which Jude responded to in an email later on and apologised for running off.

"If I had not been working that night, nobody else would have recognised him as he was very unrecognisable with his black hoodie and beard," Connor added.

Jude is thought to currently be filming Fantastic Beasts 2 in nearby Lacock, Wiltshire, with him playing a young Albus Dumbledore in the fantasy sequel, which he's confessed to having "an element of fear" about.

No idea what he thought of Detroit though.

From: Digital Spy