Natural Nylon

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Natural Nylon was a British film production company.

It was officially formed in 1997 by Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor, Sean Pertwee, Damon Bryant Bradley Adams and Geoff Deehan, although the history of the group goes back a few years earlier.

Damon Bryant quit his job as cameraman in 1991 and, together with his wife, opened a club on Beak Street in London's Soho.
He struck a friendship with a TV producer called Bradley Adams, whose wife introduced them to Sadie Frost, who was dating Jude Law after meeting him on the set of Shopping in 1992.

Ewan McGregor and Sean Pertwee had also met Jude on the set of this film, Pertwee also appeared in it and McGregor read for the part that went to Law.
Completing the line-up was Jonny Lee Miller, a long-running friend of Jude Law after they met at the National Youth Theatre in their late teens.

The majority of the group lived in the Primrose Hill area and started going out regularly at Bryant's bar, which was where the first ideas behind the production company were formed.

The first film to be produced by Natural Nylon was ExiztenZ (1999) and was later followed by Nora (2000), XX/XY (2002), Owning Mahowny (2003), To Kill a King (2003), and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).
They also did several theatrical productions including Dr Faustus and The Three Sisters.

Damon Bryant and Ewan McGregor left the company in 2002 and Jude Law resigned as director in January 2003. The company folded later that year.