Then should we read about what every Dick and Harry has to say about Jake and his movies. Really? Listen, post what you want. It's your right, like it's my right to think a lot of the tweets posted are pointless. :)
Jake "Beefcake" Gyllenhaal blessed WonderCon with his dreamy eyes, cool unshaven chin and ripping muscles ... After putting on my makeup for what seemed like hours, I was ready to present myself to the hunkiest man in Hollywood.
My question again - since when people don't care about Jake sightings
I'm not bothered by tweets - I can skim and scroll - but some random person saying they spotted him on the street in Montreal isn't all that interesting to me because everyone knows he's in Montreal filming a movie.
some random person saying they spotted him on the street in Montreal isn't all that interesting to me because everyone knows he's in Montreal filming a movie
Maybe it would be interesting to you if you have followed info about filming in Chicago this week. Fake or contradicted sightings are interesting too because they help us get the idea how often people make things up.
Jake Gyllenhaal/Michele Monaghan movie “Source Code” which will shoot here [Chicago] for 3 days, April 7, 8, and 9.
Saw a familiar face next to me in customs last night. Spent 2 mins trying to figure out what DJ he was. It was Jake Gyllenhal. Funny, that about 6 hours ago Location Chicago http://twitter.com/lynncalbers April 06, 2010 4:44 AM
joannabrocco: I cant believe I saw jake gyllenhaal on the street!!! 20 minutes ago Location Montreal April 06, 2010 4:14 PM
Michelle Williams is in negotiations to play one of the lead roles in director Noah Baumbach’s The Emperor’s Children. As we previous reported, the film centers on three Brown University graduates who are approaching their 30’s and are struggling to realize what their lives expectations are. The plot’s timeframe takes place during the events leading up to and directly following 9/11. According to TheWrap, Williams would likely be playing the character of Danielle Minkoff, a TV documentary producer from the Midwest. If she signs on, she’ll join actors Keira Knightley, Eric Bana, and Richard Gere.
before i even begin, i want to introduce this with a story: i was a sophomore, and it was literally weeks after i had come out to my closest friends. i was sitting with a group of my friends, all of us gabbing about the things us girls used to gab about. it was pretty much how i run my life now, i suppose. while eating my clementine, i overheard something that still offends me today.
“oh him*, really? he’s obviously gay. just because he says he’s straight doesn’t mean anything, i mean have you seen him?”
they were talking about a very close friend of mine, someone who i had, yes, assumed was gay as well. he and i were close and im’ed each other everyday about random stuff. on one of these occasions, we had been talking about my sexuality. it was a big fucking deal back then. i asked him what he defined himself as and he told me he was straight. i accepted that answer because if that was how he wanted to define himself, i had no right to change that. today, of course, he is an out and proud gay man and a very good friend.
which brings me to my point.
i try not to assume that i know someone’s sexuality more than they do. for years i struggled with what i was, and if i was truly gay or if i was some odd hybrid of the two. it takes so much of our lives as gay, lesbian, bi and transgender (and all the other words that i never can remember) to truly understand what and who we are and will become, that whenever anyone dares to say, “oh i know exactly what he is, gay (or lesbian or bi, etc)” i am immediately offended. for someone to say that they know my sexuality more than i do is one of the rudest things.
honestly, i did have a time when i thought i was straight. it was the normal thing and i did like girls - a lot, actually. but as i grew older, my preferences changed and i realized what those hidden feelings were. therefore, yes, i identified with the label of “straight.” to me, this meant that i was not ready to share the truth. so if a gay man wanted to tell me he was straight, i understood that he was just not ready to be out, and so i accepted that.
now, to hear the same things i heard that day at lunch directed at ricky martin now that he has come out (oh i kneeeeew he wasn’t straight, i mean obviously) makes me as mad as lunch that day. in a society in which we restrict the rights of regular people that just happen to be GLBTQetcetera, we sure do try to push them out of the closet hard. so what if he didn’t want to identify as gay and label himself by the heteronormative standards? is it our right to tell people who they are and what we believe them to be?
no, it’s not. it is their right to be able to come out as whoever they are when they choose to do so. revealing such a secret is an enormous task by itself. no one should ever be forced out.
*i’m not using his name because i’m not sure he would appreciate it.
HegedusEricC: Quite a gay & gay-interest @Peoplemag this week: stories on RIcky Martin, Rachel Maddow, CA Proposition 8, & Catholic Church scandal. #lgbt 8 minutes ago
What is there to mention about Michelle and Jake? She's going to work with a director that knows Jake, so. This means they're friends and Jake sees Matilda, right? Finally the proof we were waiting for! lol, please.
I find it interesting that some people don't think that Jake is capable of doing something selfless and nice every once in a while at least.
This is not about Jake doing something "selfless and nice" and you know it. This is about spinning it into Jake doing something for Michelle (I know there's a delusional shipper or two here). Jake didn't seem that fond of Michelle in the past anyway, more like indifferent. Why are some posters trying to link them? Is it because of Matilda?
Jake didn't seem that fond of Michelle in the past anyway, more like indifferent.
This may be true. But I think it is allowed to speculate about things w/o being attacked. Why does it bother you? If we talked about Natalie or Anne or Austin or whoever, would it still bother you?
I find it interesting that some people don't think that Jake is capable of doing something selfless and nice every once in a while at least.
Okay, I'm just getting caught up with the thread so I'm just now weighing in, but I didn't get the impression that the poster who didn't think Jake recommended Michelle or that Michelle needs recs from Jake was implying that Jake never did anything nice or selfless. No need to be defensive or think someone's dissing Jake. To me, it's more about the idea that Michelle is a known actor with a solid resume who makes interesting choices on her own.
Why does it bother you? If we talked about Natalie or Anne or Austin or whoever, would it still bother you?
Let's see, we know Jake and Natalie are good old friends. Jake and Anne are in a movie together. Jake and Austin are/were bfs. No proof whatsoever that Jake and Michelle kept in touch after BBM. See the difference?
Let's see, we know Jake and Natalie are good old friends. Jake and Anne are in a movie together. Jake and Austin are/were bfs. No proof whatsoever that Jake and Michelle kept in touch after BBM. See the difference?
JAKE Gyllenhaal says he had to deal with “moaning” British people while filming new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
The actor shot much of the video-game-inspired blockbuster in the Moroccan desert which wasn’t so easy for much of the crew.
“We had a lot of British on set and they kept saying how hot it was,” explains Jake. “I guess they are just not used to those kind of temperatures.
“I kept telling them to stop moaning. Although I grew up in Los Angeles, so those temperatures are not such a big deal for me.”
Jake recently revealed he’s a huge fan of the Prince of Persia video game.
“I played the original side-scrolling version of the game when I was a kid,” said the Hollywood hunk, 29. “And then I took a little hiatus.
“I was actually kind of tripping out on that with Jordan the other day. I was saying to him, ‘Who knew when I was playing it — after I closed out ‘Oregon Trail’ and went over to my ‘Prince of Persia’ game when I was I don’t know how old, maybe eight or something – who knew I would be playing the Prince of Persia?’ It’s kind of awesome.”
"Dear Ted: Having met many celebrities, I am confident that you can tell who is genuinely "nice" and who is blowing smoke up your ass. Who are some of the nicest, most down-to-earth celebs you have met? —Tiffany
Dear Dime a Dozen: Reese, Angie and Jamie Foxx and smokers (NOTE: the "and" is clearly a TYPO, should be "are smokers"). Jake, Brad and that other Fox, Megan, are pretty cool. Robsten, too."
Hardly surprising that Reese is a phony bitch. Also not surprising that Jake is a nice guy. But good to see, just the same. I think it's clear that Ted has always liked Jake (despite what babblers believe). Interesting that Ted thinks Jamie Foxx is a phony, too.
I don't remember if it was during the POP press conference or panel at Wondercon that Jerry B. said for now there are no plans for a franchise, that it all depends on how the movie will do. I thought he said last year that POP will be the new Disney franchise (three movies)?
^^How can Jerry say it'll become a franchise before the film comes out? We'll see how the movie will do. If it does well, part 2 and 3 are very possible.
I really don't think SATC2 will hurt PoP at all. Totally different kinds of movies, plus SATC2 has a very specific audience. I think the PoP audience is much wider and includes kids, where SATC2 doesn't, so you could get families going to PoP on the holiday weekend.
“We had a lot of British on set and they kept saying how hot it was,” explains Jake. “I guess they are just not used to those kind of temperatures. “I kept telling them to stop moaning.
Jake must have been very popular among the British on the set! lol
I never followed SATC - I probably would have loved it from what I have heard about it. But a little quirk of mine is that I have to see and read series in an orderly fasion - so there's no way I would ever break with tradition and see this latest installment of SATC if I haven't seen any of the others. Besides, I want to see Jake, and not just his eyelashes. :) I want to see the entire story, and of course the relationship with Tamina and how that turns out.
Jake must have been very popular among the British on the set! lol
lol, but, see, this is typical of these sites that purposely put a spin on a trivial remark and blow it up for a headline: "Jake Gyllenhaal Bored of Moaning Brits." I'm sure he said it in a joking way, the same way he was probably just teasing the British.
Okay, here is what a fucking gorgeous blue-eyed, dark-haired, 30ish actor, who is successful, charming and personable, who does NOT beard, who is NOT hidden in the closet, and who is NOT afraid to be seen in public with his partner, looks like:
Bomer is so hot, love the blue plaid shirt on him. He just oozes confidence and happiness, and that is incredibly sexy.
He reminds me just a little bit of Austin--like in the older picture that is my avatar. Tall, thin, the plaid. ;D
Can't help but think how magnetic Austin would be if he was himself--and can't help wondering if he'd get more, and better, work.
People like Bomer, Quinto and Lambert are working to have it all, to bring HW into this century, and I think they will. And they're going to have great careers too I think.
But James strikes me as a bit pretentious which Heath was not at all.
I disagree that James seems pretentious, and I think he and Heath had some things in common. Since Jake and Heath didn't "work out" maybe Jake can have a second chance with James? ;)
He [Matt Bomer] just oozes confidence and happiness, and that is incredibly sexy.
Very much true.
Absolutely true. Jake looks a thousand times better since the Reese bearding stopped - imagine how good he'd look if he allowed himself a glass closet like Bomer. Honestly, it had to be eating away at his soul. I don't see how it couldn't.
LMAO said... has anyone else actually referred to him as Matt Boner IRL? ...embarassing. Yep. On national TV
LOL. That's hilarious. But he's used to it. He was on Jimmy Kimmel a couple years ago and started out the interview by thanking him for pronouncing his name right, lol:
Would 26% Of Gay Men Really Turn Straight If They Could?
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BY THE NUMBERS — "A study of 2,500 gay and bisexual men claims that almost three-quarters of them would refuse an advance in medicine that could change their sexuality to heterosexual. … Whilst 26% of those surveyed admitted that they would take a ‘straight pill’, if such existed, almost three times as many men (74%) had no desire to alter their sexual preference." The survey was conducted by ManCentral.com, a dating website, and probably a decent place to find guys who really, really like being gay. [Pink Paper]
@NYUAlumni Moved to LA after graduation and got a job at Disney Studios. When you see Disney posters in movie theatres, that's all me! :) about 3 hours ago
Going to watch a buff Jake Gyllenhaal with an english accent...can't wait until 4pm :) 3 minutes ago
Action, Attitude Might Help Prince of Persia Break Game-Movie Curse
Prince of Parkour
The videogame movie curse isn’t lost on the star of Prince of Persia.
“The risk of trying to do a videogame movie well is intriguing,” says Jake Gyllenhaal.
In his San Francisco hotel suite overlooking the Moscone Center where WonderCon takes place, the Brokeback Mountain star perches on a window ledge and ruminates about his time in the desert.
“There are movies and genres of movies that are made over and over again that are guaranteed to be somewhat successful, that people are going to see them. Whereas with videogames, there’s a lot of resistance because people are so intimately involved. There have been so many failures that I think people are putting them off to the side and saying, that’s not possible,” he says.
To prepare for his role as the Prince, Gyllenhaal built muscle mass and learned parkour, the French sport of running, jumping and negotiating obstacles that’s about as close to being in a videogame as you can get in the real world. But he also spent a good deal of time playing Sands of Time, focusing on the main character.
“What I liked about him is that he had this attitude in the game,” Gyllenhall says. “Not that he was a complainer, but he never really liked to fall. It was always a pain in the ass for him — if he got cut, he’d be like, ‘Argh, God!’ The fact that he put that spin on it — ‘Really? You just cut my fuckin’ arm off?’ I like that attitude. Eye-rolling when something doesn’t go your way, but not in an obnoxious way.”
In the film, as in the game, the Prince comes across the Dagger of Time, which allows him to control the flow of time. He has to work together with Princess Tamina (played by Gemma Arterton) to gain control of the all-powerful Sands of Time.
“In the games, you have the Prince fighting with the woman, and you have this natural sense of romance,” he says. “Both are always abrasive with each other, which is in the movie. That tit-for-tat, she’s-a-bad-ass-and-he-can’t-deal-with-it, that sexual tension is the same.”
But mostly, Gyllenhaal was playing the game to get inspiration for the many stunts he performs: The Sands of Time movie is filled with gamelike moments like wall climbing and high-flying jumps.
“When I was in the middle of shooting at lunchtime, I’d play that game, figure out the moves that he could do and try to incorporate them into the stunts that we were doing,” he says. “I would bring the stunt guys into the trailer and be like, ‘Can we do this? Can we pull this off?’ And they’d be like, ‘Yeah, we could try it.’ And then like a week and a half later, I’d be up on a harness, and be like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ And they’d be like, ‘You asked, man!’”
Gyllenhaal performed many of the stunts himself, which he says caused no end of distress to the people around him.
“Whenever there wasn’t a wire, they were very worried,” he says. “Not that I wouldn’t make it, but the landing is scary.” The “father of parkour,” David Belle, was on hand to work with Gyllenhaal.
Although Bruckheimer says that Gyllenhaal’s eagerness to perform daring feats made the editing process much easier, he was careful to not let him go too far. “I didn’t want him to get hurt,” Bruckheimer says. “You have an actor who is very physical and does a terrific job, but he’s still got to come back to work the next day. A stuntman, unfortunately, if he gets hurt, you can put another one in there. But you can’t replace Jake.”
Sure you can, there's Toby, that guy from Glee,(can't think of his name), James Mardsen and Matt Bomer with platforms. Heck even Anne Hathaway looks like Jake.
lol. I have to go with Bomer - what he lacks in height he makes up for in that gorgeous face and tight bod - and the fact that he's not ashamed of being gay gives him big bonus points in my book :)
Just got confirmation that I'm BOOKED tomorrow to film movie, Source Code. Work is not going to like me calling off last minute again.. about 10 hours ago
Quint chats PRINCE OF PERSIA and SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaal!
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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the biggest of the interviews I got at WonderCon this year with Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal for Disney’s big tent-pole summer flick PRINCE OF PERSIA, directed by Mike Newell and produced by giant spectacle mogul Jerry Bruckheimer.
When I entered the room to chat with Gyllenhaal he directed me to a chair that was right up next to the window. There was a slight counter top build up against the glass that Gyllenhaal perched himself on, which, when sitting in the chair, put me the awkward position of having his crotch being at eye level. Needless to say, I spent most of the interview with my eyes locked on his, despite whatever neck pain that might have given me. I ain’t no cock spy!
Awkward seating situation aside, I found Gyllenhaal to have quite a lot of enthusiasm about his craft and a down to earth boyish excitement about film that I didn’t expect. I don’t know why, but I pegged him more as being an withdrawn serious guy.
Hope you guys enjoy the chat!
Quint: I have to start off by saying that I loved BROTHERS. I think that was a criminally overlooked movie. You, Natalie [Portman] and Tobey [Maguire] knocked that out of the park. Jake Gyllenhaal: Thank you very much.
Quint: I was very shocked that it got ignored during the awards season. Jake Gyllenhaal: Really?
Quint: Yeah. Jake Gyllenhaal: You know, I think those things take on lives of their own, it’s like sometimes things catch and sometimes things don’t, but it doesn’t make it any more or less of a movie, I guess. I’m really proud of that movie as a marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me, so thank you. That means a lot.
Quint: Seriously it felt like the kind of movie that I could have seen in the 70s. Do you know what I mean? It was very comfortable in what it was and it was very comfortable in resting everything on three shoulders, essentially. It was very… I don’t want to say “slow,” but it was a very deliberately paced movie that we don’t get in the multiplexes anymore. Jake Gyllenhaal: But enough of a story, I feel, to keep people engaged. It’s like there were twists and turns if you hadn’t seen the original that I think people would go like “Whoa, what happened?” That’s what I was… When I read it, I hadn’t really seen the original and then I read it and particularly that one thing that happens with Tobey… You are like “How do you come back from that?” and you don’t. He did a great job with that.
Quint: I didn’t do the set visit or any of that stuff, so this is kind of like the first extended bit I’ve seen from PRINCE OF PERSIA and what really struck me is that I love that even if he wasn’t up on the stage or even anywhere near the panel, I could have pegged that as a Jerry Bruckheimer just because the dude puts such an emphasis on fun and spectacle. It’s fun, and that’s what I loved about seeing it and I love who he likes to put in these movies. I’m a huge Alfred Molina fan and so… Jake Gyllenhaal: For real, me too. You don’t see any of Alfred in it, though. I saw a couple of clips and he is so much in the movie.
Quint chats PRINCE OF PERSIA and SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaal!
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Quint: They focused a lot more on him on SORCERER’S APPRENTICE where we just got to see all of these crazy wacky magic fights between him and Nicolas Cage. Jake Gyllenhaal: It’s so random. (laughs)
Quint: That’s a ticket sold from my book! (laughs) I have to imagine that was in the script; just kind of the overall fun feeling of the thing. Jake Gyllenhaal: Yes.
Quint: On the panel, you called back to a childhood love of INDIANA JONES and those kinds of movies, so I guess if you could elaborate a little bit on that. Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, it was that. To me the fun thing about it is… I think it is incredibly entertaining, it’s huge and it’s for everyone. (laughs) I had great fun making the movie. I think it does show in there and yeah, that’s what it is. You did most of the talking yourself, so you just…
Quint: Man, I’m a shitty interviewer, I’m supposed to make you do all of the talking. Jake Gyllenhaal: No, no! (laughs) That is what it is. It’s really, really great fun.
Quint: And you have worked with people like Roland Emmerich before who are also skilled at these kinds of giant disastersploitation, just these super fun movies, but I’ve noticed through a lot of studio pictures, you just end up with this kind of homogenized “fun,” so it’s very safe fun, but what I really kind of connected with on the PRINCE OF PERSIA stuff that, to be completely honest, I didn’t know if it was going to be there until I saw the footage was that it just didn’t seem to have that “Directed by studio mentality” feel. I don’t know if that makes any sense… Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, to me I feel like what was really nice about working with Disney, and also working with Jerry, was that Mike [Newell] and I… You never had this feeling of “No, you can’t do… NO!” and you were constantly trying things out. When we were on second unit, I would literally just try something out and I would say probably three quarters of the time it was not successful, but it’s unique because you can take those risks you know?
Quint: Every once in a while that’s where you get the lightning in the bottle. I don’t think a lot of people know that about filmmaking. Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah and a number of those lines in those clips, which they actually cut short (in the WonderCon presentation)… I don’t know if you remember, but there’s a moment where I hit these two guards and I throw a rope around the and I’m like “Hold this,” and I went over the (wall)… [Laughs]
Quint: I’ve noticed from visiting sets and hearing a lot of directors talk there’s a fine balance of being prepared, having done your homework, and also being open to chance and to not pass up an opportunity that might make the movie better. Jake Gyllenhaal: I just did this movie with Ed Zwick and Annie Hathaway and then I’m doing a movie now with Duncan Jones…
Quint chats PRINCE OF PERSIA and SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaal!
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Quint: Oh, that’s right. I was on the set of MOON. Jake Gyllenhaal: You were?
Quint: I was. I saw Gertie in person. Jake Gyllenhaal: Nice.
Quint: I love Duncan. He’s very cool. Jake Gyllenhaal: Duncan is so awesome and he is an extraordinary director. Working with him has been that exactly and I think this movie that we are making is mind boggling.
Quint: SOURCE CODE, is that right? Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, it’s called SOURCE CODE.
Quint: I don’t know much about it at all. Jake Gyllenhaal: You will, you will.
Quint: I think that might be the point. I’m sorry, I think I cut you off. You were saying something about… Jake Gyllenhaal: About Duncan?
Quint: Well, chance. Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, chance… That to me is where the magic is. When you have an opportunity to check in with yourself, particularly if you are in a scene. A lot of time things are rushed or someone wants a result, which is a big mistake like in a scene it says “And then he cries…” and you are like “Ugg…” You are not left up to chance, because somebody is forcing you in a certain direction, but if it’s well done and it’s well made, the script already, then you can almost go in any direction, which is what we did on BROTHERS.
That’s how Jim [Sheridan] works. It was just like “This scene really can be whatever we want it to be.” He just wanted something real and alive and present and working with Mike, too… There’s this one scene we shot in the desert where something wasn’t working and I just said to him “Maybe I’m just going to say this one line to her” and I really gave it to Gemma [Arterton]. I really gave it to her and she responded and it came out of nowhere and Mike gets like a kid in a candy shop, it’s almost annoying. (laughs)
He’s like (shouting) “Oh, my dear boy!” and I’m like “Oh, my God! Okay, okay. It was good. It wasn’t great,” but it’s those moments. It’s what I do it for. That’s what we tried to capture, but I’m starting to lean more and more about how to do that and a lot of that is with a director who creates space… at least from my department, from the acting department, gives me that space to get closer to myself, even if I’m playing a character who is very different from myself, if that makes any sense.
Quint chats PRINCE OF PERSIA and SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaal!
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Quint: Yeah and something that you mentioned earlier, which I’d like to touch on is you said that BROTHERS was kind of a check point for you where you started looking at the craft differently. I know PRINCE OF PERSIA is obviously a radically different movie, it’s a very big movie and there are probably much broader strokes, I would imagine, but did you find stuff that you learned there, you were able to carry over with you? Jake Gyllenhaal: I did BROTHERS and then right after BROTHERS I did this movie with David O. Russell which has yet to come out, but that’s its own beast. David is incredible, but it was like BROTHERS, NAILED or THE NAIL I think we are calling it now, and then it was PRINCE OF PERSIA and then from PRINCE OF PERSIA I did this movie with Ed Zwick and now I’m doing this with Duncan and the progression for me personally, particularly with PRINCE OF PERSIA in the middle of it, which was a massive learning experience. It was like… You know, I’ve never been on something that big where there were three of me every day. Do you know what I mean? There would literally be three of me. There are three guys and then literally three of me. (laughs)
I would be on one unit and they’d be like “Okay, we are done. We need you to come over to this unit.” I would be like “When’s lunch?” They’d be like “Well, you know we started on second…” and I’d be like “Wait a second, I started on first unit, my lunch should be now!” [Laughing] They were like “Well, second unit started at this time, so lunch is at 3.” I’m like “I started at 6!” And then go over to special effects.
It was funny, because it’s like tag team, like I would finish with Mike and then I would move over to second unit and then there’d be like a guy who looked like me doing stuff and I’d be like “Alright, tag you out. It’s my turn now.”
They’d be like “Okay, we’ve got Jake, time for close ups. Time for that thing. We are going to do this and…” “Okay, tag you out” and “Special effects needs you.” I would go over there and I’d take off all of my clothes and they’d scan me and I’d put my clothes back on and go over to second unit again.
It required an intensity and a focus that I have actually then brought to this work I do now and I’ve developed techniques that have really helped me. Even if the movie is smaller… I just develop these really wonderful things. I see actors do funny things, but I have in the past who have had great experience in films and I’ve been like “What are they doing?”
I worked with Dustin Hoffman and he gave me a walker, like an old person’s walker, at the end and I was like “What?” He always would warm up before a scene doing like triceps pull-ups on a walker to get his energy up and I’m like “That’s crazy… Let’s just act!” and now cut to me doing triceps work to get my energy up, but those types of things… I think those little idiosyncrasies create a sense of presence and a knowing of yourself that I think helps your work definitely and I learned so much on this movie. It was an incredible process.
Quint: I can imagine… [A representative comes in and notifies that there’s only time for one more question.] Quint: Well if I’ve got one more question, I have to talk about Duncan. Jake Gyllenhaal: Yes.
Quint: So, how far along are you in the movie? Jake Gyllenhaal: We are almost done.
Quint: Really? Are you shooting in London? Jake Gyllenhaal: No, we are shooting in Montreal. We are shooting the coolest shit right now, man. I can’t even tell you.
Quint: I’ve got to bug him “Hey, the studio might not want it, but I want to come up!” Jake Gyllenhaal: I’m telling you man, he is really quite something. His mind… He comes from quite a pedigree, just artistically, but on his own I believe he is the next generation. He is blowing my mind on a daily basis.
Quint chats PRINCE OF PERSIA and SOURCE CODE with Jake Gyllenhaal!
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Quint: What’s interesting with him is he is kind of like the quiet Quentin Tarantino, where it’s like he has such amazing film knowledge. Like when I went to MOON he was wearing the most badass CLOCKWORK ORANGE t-shirt I’ve ever seen. I’m like, “Wow, I know I like you already.” Jake Gyllenhaal: He has collector’s edition t-shirts on like every day and people come up and they are like “Dude, where’d you get that shirt?” I’m “It’s just a shirt, I have no idea.” [Laughs]
To me, working with him… It’s surprising, his instinct, his sense of collaboration, but at the same time truly being an auteur… I don’t know man, it’s nice, because I feel like I’ve talked to a lot of journalists who have really responded to his movie and know that and I knew that when I saw it and I think people… Everyone I’ve been like “Have you seen MOON?” They’re always like “Everyone says it’s so good, I need to see it.” He’s the real deal man. Anyone who has seen it knows that and this… you are really going to like it!
That’s a bit of a scattershot interview, but I think it gives you a taste of his enthusiasm for the process. Imagine the section where he’s talking about there being three of him on the Prince of Persia set every day and read it in your mind with Jake Gyllenhaal, eyes wide, pacing around the room, talking in run-on sentences.
The dude’s got the passion and he’s got the chops. And I’m so intrigued by Source Code right now you have no idea!
When I entered the room to chat with Gyllenhaal he directed me to a chair that was right up next to the window. There was a slight counter top build up against the glass that Gyllenhaal perched himself on, which, when sitting in the chair, put me the awkward position of having his crotch being at eye level.
Jake Gyllenhaal: You know, I think those things take on lives of their own, it’s like sometimes things catch and sometimes things don’t, but it doesn’t make it any more or less of a movie, I guess. I’m really proud of that movie as a marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me, so thank you. That means a lot.
A new beginning? Sounds good, nice to hear Jake is really into acting.
"marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me"
Yes Jake learned how to act better for his photo ops with his beard and he probably realized that nothing is more important than pushing the PR agenda as we saw with his behavior during his Reeke time.
Yes Jake learned how to act better for his photo ops with his beard and he probably realized that nothing is more important than pushing the PR agenda as we saw with his behavior during his Reeke time.
Yes, Reese was a mistake, but i think it's time to move on and stop holding it against him. I mean i didn't like his behaviour in many regards during Reeke, but now it's over and time to move on.
I think Jake'll be good in Source Code. I think that's his kind of movie. His best performance, imo, he gave in Donnie Darko. The role just fitted. I think he'll be ok in LAOD, but Anne will get more attention and PoP he'll probably be ok too, idk if the movie itself will be ok though. Hopefully.
Quality acting. He was good in Brothers but he didn't shine like he did in Donnie Darko, BBM or Jarhead. I don't know what was wrong with his understanding of acting before, his role choices before Brother were much better imo (I'm looking forward to Source Code, though). What's obvious to me is that after Brothers he decided to take the commercial route more.
LAOD doesn't sound commercial, on what planet? Did you read the comments of those who have seen it: fratboy humour, lots of nudity and sex, romance, etc?
I don't know what review it was and sorry, but I don't have the time to look for it. What I know is what I read. I'm not lying. You can believe me or not.
I don't know what review it was and sorry, but I don't have the time to look for it. What I know is what I read. I'm not lying. You can believe me or not.
It was the HE review that I posted above.
Anyway, so what if there is frat boy humor? What's important is that it'll turn out funny.
LAOD isn't just another romcom or cheap laughs comedy. One example:
They movie spends some time on the Parkinson's effects. She and Jake go to a big drug fair, and there's an alternative convention across the street focusing on organic Parkinson's remedies, and she goes over to this event. We see some real Parkinson's people talking up their personal stuff the way the unemployed talked for Up In The Air. At one point she's shown taking senior citizens across the border to get cheaper drugs in Canada.
"The script take pains to paint the Gyllenhaal character as a rake, a ladies' man. Zwick doesn't do that good a job in some respects. There's a lot of bullshit Eloi humor and basically shitty schtick. Mostly about the younger brother being a fat-ass.
I personally am not offended by this kind of humor, if it's not totally tasteless. If it makes me laugh, it's what counts.
Anne Hathaway's performance as Jake Gyllenhaal's Parkinson's-afflicted love interest in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs is "wonderful, really wonderful...she knocks it out of the park."
I hope she'll continue to get such positive reviews. Fingers crossed. I want this to be a critical hit. After Rendition and Brothers a critical hit would be neat for Jake.
LAOD isn't just another romcom or cheap laughs comedy.
For fuck's sake, can you READ? Did I say anywhere it was a cheap laughs comedy? I said it was a commercial movie, not only because of the humor also the nudity and sex and love story. Going by the reviews/comments I read, that's clear, disagree all you want. Commercial doesn't exclude quality fyi.
And what is wrong with you anyway? Everyone here hopes that LAOD will turn out well.
Huh? What LAOD being or not being a commercial movie has to do with its future box office? A commercial movie can flop, and artistic movie can make money.
Huh? What LAOD being or not being a commercial movie has to do with its future box office? A commercial movie can flop, and artistic movie can make money.
Of course. But a commercial movie is supposed to make money whereas an indie film not as much. LAOD is expected to make money and let's hope it will.
Not the best picture I've ever seen of him - and it can't be the best picture they shot that day. Makes you wonder how they chose it. I like his outfit though.
I mean i didn't like his behaviour in many regards during Reeke, but now it's over and time to move on.
7:59, do you think he will beard again? I'm unsure myself. Sometimes I think he won't because it's hard for me to believe there's anyone out there who can't see how phony it looked (although I know a lot of people bought it or at least pretended to buy it). But, who knows? Maybe his people think they could do it better next time.
I think LaOD is up quite a few notches from the usual commercial offerings. As far as the fratboy humor, a movie has to be reflective of how people are in real life, and you have that. I don't usually like movies where that's all there is, but it's part of the story here. I like the sounds of Anne's character, and Jake's. I'm sure Jake will do indie films too. It's great for him as an actor to have such breadth of experience in films, and hopefully, he'll make his own films one day!
Justin Bieber isn’t thrilled with this cover. Thinks he looks ‘real crazy.’ (Agreed) Justin Bieber shot a Tweet to People magazine in response to his cover debut yesterday.
Dear @peoplemag Covershoot…next time i laugh real crazy warn me u r still taking pics…still appreciate u but let’s get on the same page
EXCLUSIVE story and pics in the new issue of @peoplemag . I look crazy as heck on the cover but if u cant laugh at yourself u aint havin fun
Right now Jake needs a hit, a good movie that will make money and keep him in the spotlight. Not sure if PoP can do that for Jake.
I honestly don't see how PoP can fail to do that. That's not a judgment on the quality of the movie, despite hype and pre-reviews, that can't be determined yet and is subjective in any case. But I don't see how it can't make money and keep him in the spotlight - at least for a while. And then he moves on to LAOD ... :)
PoP isn't an actor's movie. Jeff Goldblum was in three hugely popular movies with fantastic box office (Independence Day and two Jurassic Park movies) but that didn't turn him into a movie star.
PoP isn't an actor's movie. Jeff Goldblum was in three hugely popular movies with fantastic box office (Independence Day and two Jurassic Park movies) but that didn't turn him into a movie star.
This feels like a non sequitir to me. Who said it was an "actor's movie"? No one. 10:50 said: "Right now Jake needs a hit, a good movie that will make money and keep him in the spotlight." I think it will make money and it will keep him in the "spotlight" which means to me give him so good publicity for a while. I'm not sure how "movie star" is defined - it sounds to me like it's a matter of opinion, like "commercial," lol. But I think Jake already is considered more of a "movie star" than Goldblum ever was, maybe in part due to his "heartthrob" status. And he does have a BAFTA and an Oscar nom (yeah, I know that doesn't equal "movie star") but I don't think you can just dismiss those achievements either.
People won't go and watch PoP because Jake is playing Prince Dastan.
LOL. For lots of Jake fangirls, that's the ONLY reason they are talking about PoP and the only reason they will be first in line for tickets. They wouldn't think twice about it otherwise.
Keep him in the spotlight = keep him relevant and in demand as an actor.
Okay. But PoP isn't his last movie. As I said, LAOD and Source Code both sound really promising.
For lots of Jake fangirls, that's the ONLY reason they are talking about PoP and the only reason they will be first in line for tickets. A few thousand fangirls have zero importance in this (box office) case.
LAOD and Source Code both sound really promising. They do.
Dear Ted: Good for Anna Paquin for coming out of the closet! She truly is a courageous young woman! My question is, why don't gay celebrities like Toothy Tile and Grey Goose just come out of the closet as bisexual instead of gay? They could still be the subject of teen girls' fantasies, but they could also date who they actually want to while occasionally fitting in a beard or two. Does that make sense? —CEA
Dear One Way: For nonhating people like you and me, sure it makes sense. But you're forgetting there are a helluva lot of folks that so are not OK with the bisexuality—as if anybody asked their permission in the first place. Even if it's a hot babe like Anna or Megan or Angie.
A few thousand fangirls have zero importance in this (box office) case.
*shrug* I don't know how many "fangirls" there are, but okay. And even if people don't go to see Jake as Dastan, maybe they'll come away liking Jake and wanting to see more of him after the movie, who knows? I'm not saying this is his big cinematic moment, but I think some of the cynicism may be a little overblown. But maybe I'm wrong. Won't be long now till we find out, though :)
I'm not sure. But i wouldn't be surprised if he did (unfortunately). If so, i hope he chooses someone better than that ditz. She is a typical blonde (dyed) airhead. Although Kiki was too.
"Broadway veteren Hugh Jackman is set to appear alongside Kate Winslet in a new movie by the Farrelly brothers. In the film, Jackman wil play an unfortunate man whose testicals are attached to his chin. Winslet, his date for the night, is the only person who seems to notice this oddity. While the movie remains untitled, it's anthology style will feature a series of 17 short films. Jackman and Winslet began shooting scenes this week at the Thompson Gild Hall hotel in the Financial District. The ensemble cast also includes Gerard Butler, Naomi Watts, Justin Long and Sam Rockwell."
The film is the concept of There's Something About Mary director Peter Farrelly.
If so, i hope he chooses someone better than that ditz. She is a typical blonde (dyed) airhead.
You really think so? Reese is a phony, for sure - but no ditz or airhead. From what I can tell, she's pretty shrewd when it comes to publicity and trying to work the media to her advantage. She's no dumb blonde - she's a manipulator, not the one being manipulated.
From what I can tell, she's pretty shrewd when it comes to publicity and trying to work the media to her advantage. She's no dumb blonde - she's a manipulator, not the one being manipulated.
Yes, in this regard she is smart, but she still strikes me as not very intelligent. You know what i mean?
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«Oldest ‹Older 401 – 600 of 2855 Newer› Newest»A lot of the tweets posted here are completely pointless imo.
Opinions about Jake and his movies are pointless? Which tweets should be posted?
5:30 AM, I think you forgot how this tweet discussion started:
Well, I didn't say that, that's Jersey Tom's opinion. My comment was in reply to this:
I love tweets because I'm curious about what random people think about Jake and his movies.
I think tweets about Jake's whereabouts should be posted.
What about 'gay' tweets - people's opinions about Jake's sexuality?
Opinions about Jake and his movies are pointless?
Then should we read about what every Dick and Harry has to say about Jake and his movies. Really? Listen, post what you want. It's your right, like it's my right to think a lot of the tweets posted are pointless. :)
5:45 AM, which tweets aren't pointless?
GraziaMagAus: Rumour of the day: Isabel Lucas is dating Jake Gyllenhaal. Go, Aussie, go!
about 6 hours ago
Jake "Beefcake" Gyllenhaal blessed WonderCon with his dreamy eyes, cool unshaven chin and ripping muscles ... After putting on my makeup for what seemed like hours, I was ready to present myself to the hunkiest man in Hollywood.
OMG, Jake is gonna turn them all gay! lol
Gosling with sleeveless shirt and with his dog looking hot:
delish.
ooh, for a doglover, this is the ultimate porn.
LOL
My question again - since when people don't care about Jake sightings
I'm not bothered by tweets - I can skim and scroll - but some random person saying they spotted him on the street in Montreal isn't all that interesting to me because everyone knows he's in Montreal filming a movie.
some random person saying they spotted him on the street in Montreal isn't all that interesting to me because everyone knows he's in Montreal filming a movie
Maybe it would be interesting to you if you have followed info about filming in Chicago this week. Fake or contradicted sightings are interesting too because they help us get the idea how often people make things up.
Jake Gyllenhaal/Michele Monaghan movie “Source Code” which will shoot here [Chicago] for 3 days, April 7, 8, and 9.
Saw a familiar face next to me in customs last night. Spent 2 mins trying to figure out what DJ he was. It was Jake Gyllenhal. Funny, that
about 6 hours ago
Location Chicago
http://twitter.com/lynncalbers
April 06, 2010 4:44 AM
joannabrocco: I cant believe I saw jake gyllenhaal on the street!!!
20 minutes ago
Location Montreal
April 06, 2010 4:14 PM
Michelle Williams is in negotiations to play one of the lead roles in director Noah Baumbach’s The Emperor’s Children. As we previous reported, the film centers on three Brown University graduates who are approaching their 30’s and are struggling to realize what their lives expectations are. The plot’s timeframe takes place during the events leading up to and directly following 9/11. According to TheWrap, Williams would likely be playing the character of Danielle Minkoff, a TV documentary producer from the Midwest. If she signs on, she’ll join actors Keira Knightley, Eric Bana, and Richard Gere.
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Girl chooses interesting projects.
Nice :)
Noah Baumbach
The director is kind of cute. He is from Brooklyn.
i'm luke. i'm a boy. i'm 18.
i do theatre. i do happiness. i do men.
time for my ricky martin commentary
before i even begin, i want to introduce this with a story: i was a sophomore, and it was literally weeks after i had come out to my closest friends. i was sitting with a group of my friends, all of us gabbing about the things us girls used to gab about. it was pretty much how i run my life now, i suppose. while eating my clementine, i overheard something that still offends me today.
“oh him*, really? he’s obviously gay. just because he says he’s straight doesn’t mean anything, i mean have you seen him?”
they were talking about a very close friend of mine, someone who i had, yes, assumed was gay as well. he and i were close and im’ed each other everyday about random stuff. on one of these occasions, we had been talking about my sexuality. it was a big fucking deal back then. i asked him what he defined himself as and he told me he was straight. i accepted that answer because if that was how he wanted to define himself, i had no right to change that. today, of course, he is an out and proud gay man and a very good friend.
which brings me to my point.
i try not to assume that i know someone’s sexuality more than they do. for years i struggled with what i was, and if i was truly gay or if i was some odd hybrid of the two. it takes so much of our lives as gay, lesbian, bi and transgender (and all the other words that i never can remember) to truly understand what and who we are and will become, that whenever anyone dares to say, “oh i know exactly what he is, gay (or lesbian or bi, etc)” i am immediately offended. for someone to say that they know my sexuality more than i do is one of the rudest things.
honestly, i did have a time when i thought i was straight. it was the normal thing and i did like girls - a lot, actually. but as i grew older, my preferences changed and i realized what those hidden feelings were. therefore, yes, i identified with the label of “straight.” to me, this meant that i was not ready to share the truth. so if a gay man wanted to tell me he was straight, i understood that he was just not ready to be out, and so i accepted that.
now, to hear the same things i heard that day at lunch directed at ricky martin now that he has come out (oh i kneeeeew he wasn’t straight, i mean obviously) makes me as mad as lunch that day. in a society in which we restrict the rights of regular people that just happen to be GLBTQetcetera, we sure do try to push them out of the closet hard. so what if he didn’t want to identify as gay and label himself by the heteronormative standards? is it our right to tell people who they are and what we believe them to be?
no, it’s not. it is their right to be able to come out as whoever they are when they choose to do so. revealing such a secret is an enormous task by itself. no one should ever be forced out.
*i’m not using his name because i’m not sure he would appreciate it.
my name is luke. this is my life.
The director is kind of cute. He is from Brooklyn.
A New York Jew from Brooklyn? Does Jake know him?
A New York Jew from Brooklyn? Does Jake know him?
Yes. There were pics of them together a few years ago.
Ha! I thought that he looks vaguely familiar :)
^^But he is married to Jennifer Jason Leigh (sp?). ;)
Jake and Noah
^^I bet he is friends with the Gyllenhaal family. :)
Thanks 7:57 AM. Small New York!
I think most in the movie business in NYC know each other personally.
That sounds like fun.
Yup. I think they all have such an interesting life.
HegedusEricC: Quite a gay & gay-interest @Peoplemag this week: stories on RIcky Martin, Rachel Maddow, CA Proposition 8, & Catholic Church scandal. #lgbt
8 minutes ago
Jake and Noah
^^I bet he is friends with the Gyllenhaal family.
We aren't going to mention Michelle and Jake, are we? ;)
We aren't going to mention Michelle and Jake, are we? ;)
Yeah, I was thinking Jake maybe recommended her to Mr. Baumbach. Who knows?
What is there to mention about Michelle and Jake? She's going to work with a director that knows Jake, so. This means they're friends and Jake sees Matilda, right? Finally the proof we were waiting for! lol, please.
^^LOL. No, but it is possible Jake recommended her to him.
That's a nice thought, but I don't think Michelle needs recommendations from anyone, she has many good roles behind her.
This means they're friends and Jake sees Matilda, right?
No, that means Michelle and Jake know the same director from NYC.
No, but it is possible Jake recommended her to him.
Because Michelle needs Jake to get work? Grasping at straws much?
That's a nice thought, but I don't think Michelle needs recommendations from anyone, she has many good roles behind her.
She is a good actress ia, but who knows.
Because Michelle needs Jake to get work? Grasping at straws much?
It was a thought that crossed my mind, that's all.
She is a good actress ia, but who knows.
Yes, it is possible.
Yes, it is possible.
Thanks for a little support here. :)
I suppose Heath recommended Maggie to Nolan too then. Riiight.
Jeez, it was just a thought.
I'm over it now.
Looking forward to Jake, Michelle and Noah pictures! :)
You guys are cracking me up. I love it. ;)
I find it interesting that some people don't think that Jake is capable of doing something selfless and nice every once in a while at least.
I suppose Heath recommended Maggie to Nolan too then. Riiight.
Who knows?
My question again - since when people don't care about Jake sightings
There are many bs sightings that are annoying.
I find it interesting that some people don't think that Jake is capable of doing something selfless and nice every once in a while at least.
This is not about Jake doing something "selfless and nice" and you know it. This is about spinning it into Jake doing something for Michelle (I know there's a delusional shipper or two here). Jake didn't seem that fond of Michelle in the past anyway, more like indifferent. Why are some posters trying to link them? Is it because of Matilda?
There are many bs sightings that are annoying.
Yes, but how can you tell which are true or false if you don't read about them?
Jake didn't seem that fond of Michelle in the past anyway, more like indifferent.
We have pictures, Jake seemed very fond of Michelle.
Jake didn't seem that fond of Michelle in the past anyway, more like indifferent.
This may be true. But I think it is allowed to speculate about things w/o being attacked. Why does it bother you? If we talked about Natalie or Anne or Austin or whoever, would it still bother you?
I find it interesting that some people don't think that Jake is capable of doing something selfless and nice every once in a while at least.
Okay, I'm just getting caught up with the thread so I'm just now weighing in, but I didn't get the impression that the poster who didn't think Jake recommended Michelle or that Michelle needs recs from Jake was implying that Jake never did anything nice or selfless. No need to be defensive or think someone's dissing Jake. To me, it's more about the idea that Michelle is a known actor with a solid resume who makes interesting choices on her own.
This is about spinning it into Jake doing something for Michelle (I know there's a delusional shipper or two here).
Doing something nice for someone doesn't mean nor imply that you want to marry them.
(((Luke)))
Yes, but how can you tell which are true or false if you don't read about them?
I don't mind the sightings being posted, but I wouldn't take them too seriously.
In the end everyone can write anything on the internet.
Why does it bother you? If we talked about Natalie or Anne or Austin or whoever, would it still bother you?
Let's see, we know Jake and Natalie are good old friends. Jake and Anne are in a movie together. Jake and Austin are/were bfs. No proof whatsoever that Jake and Michelle kept in touch after BBM. See the difference?
Doing something nice for someone doesn't mean nor imply that you want to marry them.
Not for some (JiS) posters. ;)
I think some posters are paranoid. There was just speculation that Jake may have recommended her to that director and some went ballistic.
Let's see, we know Jake and Natalie are good old friends. Jake and Anne are in a movie together. Jake and Austin are/were bfs. No proof whatsoever that Jake and Michelle kept in touch after BBM. See the difference?
Ok.
Speculation based on what, wishful thinking? Michelle doesn't need Jake or anyone to get roles.
JAKE Gyllenhaal says he had to deal with “moaning” British people while filming new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
The actor shot much of the video-game-inspired blockbuster in the Moroccan desert which wasn’t so easy for much of the crew.
“We had a lot of British on set and they kept saying how hot it was,” explains Jake. “I guess they are just not used to those kind of temperatures.
“I kept telling them to stop moaning. Although I grew up in Los Angeles, so those temperatures are not such a big deal for me.”
Jake recently revealed he’s a huge fan of the Prince of Persia video game.
“I played the original side-scrolling version of the game when I was a kid,” said the Hollywood hunk, 29. “And then I took a little hiatus.
“I was actually kind of tripping out on that with Jordan the other day. I was saying to him, ‘Who knew when I was playing it — after I closed out ‘Oregon Trail’ and went over to my ‘Prince of Persia’ game when I was I don’t know how old, maybe eight or something – who knew I would be playing the Prince of Persia?’ It’s kind of awesome.”
link
Some PoP updates at WDW.
"Dear Ted:
Having met many celebrities, I am confident that you can tell who is genuinely "nice" and who is blowing smoke up your ass. Who are some of the nicest, most down-to-earth celebs you have met?
—Tiffany
Dear Dime a Dozen:
Reese, Angie and Jamie Foxx and smokers (NOTE: the "and" is clearly a TYPO, should be "are smokers"). Jake, Brad and that other Fox, Megan, are pretty cool. Robsten, too."
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Hardly surprising that Reese is a phony bitch. Also not surprising that Jake is a nice guy. But good to see, just the same. I think it's clear that Ted has always liked Jake (despite what babblers believe). Interesting that Ted thinks Jamie Foxx is a phony, too.
I don't remember if it was during the POP press conference or panel at Wondercon that Jerry B. said for now there are no plans for a franchise, that it all depends on how the movie will do. I thought he said last year that POP will be the new Disney franchise (three movies)?
^^How can Jerry say it'll become a franchise before the film comes out? We'll see how the movie will do. If it does well, part 2 and 3 are very possible.
It's bad timing that it opens the same day as SATC. How unfortunate!
It will be a long ( 4 days?) weekend.
I really don't think SATC2 will hurt PoP at all. Totally different kinds of movies, plus SATC2 has a very specific audience. I think the PoP audience is much wider and includes kids, where SATC2 doesn't, so you could get families going to PoP on the holiday weekend.
I think the PoP audience is much wider and includes kids, where SATC2 doesn't, so you could get families going to PoP on the holiday weekend.
Very good point!
PoP is going to be BO success, a studio like Disney does not let this kind of things to chance.
I think Jake's carrer is going to improve after this, but I think he should just stick with 1 movie and not the entire franchise...JMO.
I hope it does well. :)
PoP is going to be BO success,
It should and reviews for this kind of movie are irrelevant.
“We had a lot of British on set and they kept saying how hot it was,” explains Jake. “I guess they are just not used to those kind of temperatures. “I kept telling them to stop moaning.
Jake must have been very popular among the British on the set! lol
Jake your eyelashes are just gorgeous. That alone should sway the female audience away from
SATC2.
I never followed SATC - I probably would have loved it from what I have heard about it. But a little quirk of mine is that I have to see and read series in an orderly fasion - so there's no way I would ever break with tradition and see this latest installment of SATC if I haven't seen any of the others. Besides, I want to see Jake, and not just his eyelashes. :) I want to see the entire story, and of course the relationship with Tamina and how that turns out.
10:44 AM
Absolutely. And he dresses so much better too!
reviews for this kind of movie are irrelevant.
Not if they're hoping for PoP to be a groundbreaking video game adaptation.
Jake must have been very popular among the British on the set! lol
lol, but, see, this is typical of these sites that purposely put a spin on a trivial remark and blow it up for a headline: "Jake Gyllenhaal Bored of Moaning Brits." I'm sure he said it in a joking way, the same way he was probably just teasing the British.
"Not if they're hoping for PoP to be a groundbreaking video game adaptation.'
Disney wants huge profits the heck with the artistic angle.
Totally OT, but I hate my job. Love Jake though.
(((11:17 AM)))
Jake Gyllenhaal is filming in my city right now. At our hockey arena, and Boys Like Girls are just hang around they city too.
Location: Canada
Is Jake still bein' a total wuss and bearding?
Ah, Isabel McCuddleBeard is the latest, hmmm, what's new.
There's no new beard, that was just Lainey's bad joke.
I hate my job too. That's why I spend half of my working time here on this site
he,he... the hell with them! ;D
Okay, here is what a fucking gorgeous blue-eyed, dark-haired, 30ish actor, who is successful, charming and personable, who does NOT beard, who is NOT hidden in the closet, and who is NOT afraid to be seen in public with his partner, looks like:
ONTD Matt Bomer post
Take note, Jake! Matt may not be an A-list movie star who makes gazillions of dollars, but I bet he sleeps well at night :)
I would definitely take a note of Matt if I could!
Anonymous asked: i've always been obsessed with james franco but now i'm in love with jake gyllenhaal. what a predicament!
A: theres always room for both, but we all know who is more worthy of an obsession!!! haha :D
daily james franco
Jake and James (who looks a bit like Heath) would make a good looking pair.
Jake and James (who looks a bit like Heath)
IA. But James strikes me as a bit pretentious which Heath was not at all.
would make a good looking pair.
They would. :D
But James strikes me as a bit pretentious which Heath was not at all.
Very true. One of the many things I loved - still love - about Heath :)
James & Heath
Very true. One of the many things I loved - still love - about Heath :)
Anne said that he was special in many ways. :)
Maybe Jake and James will be in a movie together one day? Would be nice!
So many men, so little time!
Bomer is so hot, love the blue plaid shirt on him. He just oozes confidence and happiness, and that is incredibly sexy.
He reminds me just a little bit of Austin--like in the older picture that is my avatar. Tall, thin, the plaid. ;D
Can't help but think how magnetic Austin would be if he was himself--and can't help wondering if he'd get more, and better, work.
People like Bomer, Quinto and Lambert are working to have it all, to bring HW into this century, and I think they will. And they're going to have great careers too I think.
But James strikes me as a bit pretentious which Heath was not at all.
I disagree that James seems pretentious, and I think he and Heath had some things in common. Since Jake and Heath didn't "work out" maybe Jake can have a second chance with James? ;)
He just oozes confidence and happiness, and that is incredibly sexy.
Very much true.
"Feel the force"- Yoda (gotta love this guy)
about 1 hour ago
He [Matt Bomer] just oozes confidence and happiness, and that is incredibly sexy.
Very much true.
Absolutely true. Jake looks a thousand times better since the Reese bearding stopped - imagine how good he'd look if he allowed himself a glass closet like Bomer. Honestly, it had to be eating away at his soul. I don't see how it couldn't.
has anyone else actually referred to him as Matt Boner IRL? ...embarassing.
Yep. On national TV.
[video]
ONTD - Matt Boner
LOL!
LMAO said...
has anyone else actually referred to him as Matt Boner IRL? ...embarassing.
Yep. On national TV
LOL. That's hilarious. But he's used to it. He was on Jimmy Kimmel a couple years ago and started out the interview by thanking him for pronouncing his name right, lol:
Matt on Jimmy Kimmel
:)
Some people still have a problem with pronouncing Gyllenhaal, but Matt's surname "problem" is more fun!
BY THE NUMBERS — "A study of 2,500 gay and bisexual men claims that almost three-quarters of them would refuse an advance in medicine that could change their sexuality to heterosexual. … Whilst 26% of those surveyed admitted that they would take a ‘straight pill’, if such existed, almost three times as many men (74%) had no desire to alter their sexual preference." The survey was conducted by ManCentral.com, a dating website, and probably a decent place to find guys who really, really like being gay. [Pink Paper]
Queerty
Staight pill? What a bullshit. You are who you are.
ITA.
But it is easier to be straight, isn't it?
But it is easier to be straight, isn't it?
There sure are still many close-minded fools in this world. But I'm confident that'll change in the near future.
I love optimists :)
@NYUAlumni Moved to LA after graduation and got a job at Disney Studios. When you see Disney posters in movie theatres, that's all me! :)
about 3 hours ago
Going to watch a buff Jake Gyllenhaal with an english accent...can't wait until 4pm :)
3 minutes ago
Location: Studio City/Burbank, CA
http://twitter.com/JulieKom
Action, Attitude Might Help Prince of Persia Break Game-Movie Curse
Prince of Parkour
The videogame movie curse isn’t lost on the star of Prince of Persia.
“The risk of trying to do a videogame movie well is intriguing,” says Jake Gyllenhaal.
In his San Francisco hotel suite overlooking the Moscone Center where WonderCon takes place, the Brokeback Mountain star perches on a window ledge and ruminates about his time in the desert.
“There are movies and genres of movies that are made over and over again that are guaranteed to be somewhat successful, that people are going to see them. Whereas with videogames, there’s a lot of resistance because people are so intimately involved. There have been so many failures that I think people are putting them off to the side and saying, that’s not possible,” he says.
To prepare for his role as the Prince, Gyllenhaal built muscle mass and learned parkour, the French sport of running, jumping and negotiating obstacles that’s about as close to being in a videogame as you can get in the real world. But he also spent a good deal of time playing Sands of Time, focusing on the main character.
“What I liked about him is that he had this attitude in the game,” Gyllenhall says. “Not that he was a complainer, but he never really liked to fall. It was always a pain in the ass for him — if he got cut, he’d be like, ‘Argh, God!’ The fact that he put that spin on it — ‘Really? You just cut my fuckin’ arm off?’ I like that attitude. Eye-rolling when something doesn’t go your way, but not in an obnoxious way.”
In the film, as in the game, the Prince comes across the Dagger of Time, which allows him to control the flow of time. He has to work together with Princess Tamina (played by Gemma Arterton) to gain control of the all-powerful Sands of Time.
“In the games, you have the Prince fighting with the woman, and you have this natural sense of romance,” he says. “Both are always abrasive with each other, which is in the movie. That tit-for-tat, she’s-a-bad-ass-and-he-can’t-deal-with-it, that sexual tension is the same.”
But mostly, Gyllenhaal was playing the game to get inspiration for the many stunts he performs: The Sands of Time movie is filled with gamelike moments like wall climbing and high-flying jumps.
“When I was in the middle of shooting at lunchtime, I’d play that game, figure out the moves that he could do and try to incorporate them into the stunts that we were doing,” he says. “I would bring the stunt guys into the trailer and be like, ‘Can we do this? Can we pull this off?’ And they’d be like, ‘Yeah, we could try it.’ And then like a week and a half later, I’d be up on a harness, and be like, ‘What the fuck is this?’ And they’d be like, ‘You asked, man!’”
Gyllenhaal performed many of the stunts himself, which he says caused no end of distress to the people around him.
“Whenever there wasn’t a wire, they were very worried,” he says. “Not that I wouldn’t make it, but the landing is scary.” The “father of parkour,” David Belle, was on hand to work with Gyllenhaal.
Although Bruckheimer says that Gyllenhaal’s eagerness to perform daring feats made the editing process much easier, he was careful to not let him go too far. “I didn’t want him to get hurt,” Bruckheimer says. “You have an actor who is very physical and does a terrific job, but he’s still got to come back to work the next day. A stuntman, unfortunately, if he gets hurt, you can put another one in there. But you can’t replace Jake.”
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I love Bubble Boy, Jake you was robbed of an Oscar. I particularly loved the bob haircut in the ending.
This Bubble Boy haircut?
The cast of prince of persia is gonna be at work today. Ahhhhhhh ! Might see jake gyllenhaal (;
10 minutes ago
Location Oneida, New York
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April 7, 2010
San Francisco Celebrity Sightings
Tablehopper alerts us to Jake Gyllenhaal's recent appearance at Café Gratitude, where he shared some vegan noshes with friends and was only accosted later, upon leaving, by a girl with a t-shirt that said, "Ask me about slow sex." Let's hope for Jake's sake that he didn't. [Tablehopper]
John Waters, Jake Gyllenhaal, and will.i.am Dine About Town
"Ask me about slow sex." Let's hope for Jake's sake that he didn't.
LOL
"But you can’t replace Jake.”"
Sure you can, there's Toby, that guy from Glee,(can't think of his name), James Mardsen and Matt Bomer with platforms. Heck even Anne Hathaway looks like Jake.
And then there's KD Lang.
Matt Bomer with platforms
lol. I have to go with Bomer - what he lacks in height he makes up for in that gorgeous face and tight bod - and the fact that he's not ashamed of being gay gives him big bonus points in my book :)
So true, Destiny. About Austin. If he was not keeping secrets, I bet he would be awesome.
Bomer is 5' 11½" .
^^^^Love the precision, lol.
Jake Gyllenhaal's recent appearance at Café Gratitude, where he shared some vegan noshes with friends
Vegan? What did Nat and Tobey do to Jakey?
found out its jake gyllenhall filming in river forest! may just go back
about 11 hours ago
its jake gyllenhall failming in the town over from me! might go back & get a better glimspe damn u rain
about 11 hours ago
Location CHICAGO
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Just got confirmation that I'm BOOKED tomorrow to film movie, Source Code. Work is not going to like me calling off last minute again..
about 10 hours ago
http://twitter.com/Faye531
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the biggest of the interviews I got at WonderCon this year with Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal for Disney’s big tent-pole summer flick PRINCE OF PERSIA, directed by Mike Newell and produced by giant spectacle mogul Jerry Bruckheimer.
When I entered the room to chat with Gyllenhaal he directed me to a chair that was right up next to the window. There was a slight counter top build up against the glass that Gyllenhaal perched himself on, which, when sitting in the chair, put me the awkward position of having his crotch being at eye level. Needless to say, I spent most of the interview with my eyes locked on his, despite whatever neck pain that might have given me. I ain’t no cock spy!
Awkward seating situation aside, I found Gyllenhaal to have quite a lot of enthusiasm about his craft and a down to earth boyish excitement about film that I didn’t expect. I don’t know why, but I pegged him more as being an withdrawn serious guy.
Hope you guys enjoy the chat!
Quint: I have to start off by saying that I loved BROTHERS. I think that was a criminally overlooked movie. You, Natalie [Portman] and Tobey [Maguire] knocked that out of the park.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Thank you very much.
Quint: I was very shocked that it got ignored during the awards season.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Really?
Quint: Yeah.
Jake Gyllenhaal: You know, I think those things take on lives of their own, it’s like sometimes things catch and sometimes things don’t, but it doesn’t make it any more or less of a movie, I guess. I’m really proud of that movie as a marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me, so thank you. That means a lot.
Quint: Seriously it felt like the kind of movie that I could have seen in the 70s. Do you know what I mean? It was very comfortable in what it was and it was very comfortable in resting everything on three shoulders, essentially. It was very… I don’t want to say “slow,” but it was a very deliberately paced movie that we don’t get in the multiplexes anymore.
Jake Gyllenhaal: But enough of a story, I feel, to keep people engaged. It’s like there were twists and turns if you hadn’t seen the original that I think people would go like “Whoa, what happened?” That’s what I was… When I read it, I hadn’t really seen the original and then I read it and particularly that one thing that happens with Tobey… You are like “How do you come back from that?” and you don’t. He did a great job with that.
Quint: I didn’t do the set visit or any of that stuff, so this is kind of like the first extended bit I’ve seen from PRINCE OF PERSIA and what really struck me is that I love that even if he wasn’t up on the stage or even anywhere near the panel, I could have pegged that as a Jerry Bruckheimer just because the dude puts such an emphasis on fun and spectacle. It’s fun, and that’s what I loved about seeing it and I love who he likes to put in these movies. I’m a huge Alfred Molina fan and so…
Jake Gyllenhaal: For real, me too. You don’t see any of Alfred in it, though. I saw a couple of clips and he is so much in the movie.
Quint: They focused a lot more on him on SORCERER’S APPRENTICE where we just got to see all of these crazy wacky magic fights between him and Nicolas Cage.
Jake Gyllenhaal: It’s so random. (laughs)
Quint: That’s a ticket sold from my book! (laughs) I have to imagine that was in the script; just kind of the overall fun feeling of the thing.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yes.
Quint: On the panel, you called back to a childhood love of INDIANA JONES and those kinds of movies, so I guess if you could elaborate a little bit on that.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, it was that. To me the fun thing about it is… I think it is incredibly entertaining, it’s huge and it’s for everyone. (laughs) I had great fun making the movie. I think it does show in there and yeah, that’s what it is. You did most of the talking yourself, so you just…
Quint: Man, I’m a shitty interviewer, I’m supposed to make you do all of the talking.
Jake Gyllenhaal: No, no! (laughs) That is what it is. It’s really, really great fun.
Quint: And you have worked with people like Roland Emmerich before who are also skilled at these kinds of giant disastersploitation, just these super fun movies, but I’ve noticed through a lot of studio pictures, you just end up with this kind of homogenized “fun,” so it’s very safe fun, but what I really kind of connected with on the PRINCE OF PERSIA stuff that, to be completely honest, I didn’t know if it was going to be there until I saw the footage was that it just didn’t seem to have that “Directed by studio mentality” feel. I don’t know if that makes any sense…
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, to me I feel like what was really nice about working with Disney, and also working with Jerry, was that Mike [Newell] and I… You never had this feeling of “No, you can’t do… NO!” and you were constantly trying things out. When we were on second unit, I would literally just try something out and I would say probably three quarters of the time it was not successful, but it’s unique because you can take those risks you know?
Quint: Every once in a while that’s where you get the lightning in the bottle. I don’t think a lot of people know that about filmmaking.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah and a number of those lines in those clips, which they actually cut short (in the WonderCon presentation)… I don’t know if you remember, but there’s a moment where I hit these two guards and I throw a rope around the and I’m like “Hold this,” and I went over the (wall)… [Laughs]
Quint: I’ve noticed from visiting sets and hearing a lot of directors talk there’s a fine balance of being prepared, having done your homework, and also being open to chance and to not pass up an opportunity that might make the movie better.
Jake Gyllenhaal: I just did this movie with Ed Zwick and Annie Hathaway and then I’m doing a movie now with Duncan Jones…
Quint: Oh, that’s right. I was on the set of MOON.
Jake Gyllenhaal: You were?
Quint: I was. I saw Gertie in person.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Nice.
Quint: I love Duncan. He’s very cool.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Duncan is so awesome and he is an extraordinary director. Working with him has been that exactly and I think this movie that we are making is mind boggling.
Quint: SOURCE CODE, is that right?
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, it’s called SOURCE CODE.
Quint: I don’t know much about it at all.
Jake Gyllenhaal: You will, you will.
Quint: I think that might be the point. I’m sorry, I think I cut you off. You were saying something about…
Jake Gyllenhaal: About Duncan?
Quint: Well, chance.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yeah, chance… That to me is where the magic is. When you have an opportunity to check in with yourself, particularly if you are in a scene. A lot of time things are rushed or someone wants a result, which is a big mistake like in a scene it says “And then he cries…” and you are like “Ugg…” You are not left up to chance, because somebody is forcing you in a certain direction, but if it’s well done and it’s well made, the script already, then you can almost go in any direction, which is what we did on BROTHERS.
That’s how Jim [Sheridan] works. It was just like “This scene really can be whatever we want it to be.” He just wanted something real and alive and present and working with Mike, too… There’s this one scene we shot in the desert where something wasn’t working and I just said to him “Maybe I’m just going to say this one line to her” and I really gave it to Gemma [Arterton]. I really gave it to her and she responded and it came out of nowhere and Mike gets like a kid in a candy shop, it’s almost annoying. (laughs)
He’s like (shouting) “Oh, my dear boy!” and I’m like “Oh, my God! Okay, okay. It was good. It wasn’t great,” but it’s those moments. It’s what I do it for. That’s what we tried to capture, but I’m starting to lean more and more about how to do that and a lot of that is with a director who creates space… at least from my department, from the acting department, gives me that space to get closer to myself, even if I’m playing a character who is very different from myself, if that makes any sense.
Quint: Yeah and something that you mentioned earlier, which I’d like to touch on is you said that BROTHERS was kind of a check point for you where you started looking at the craft differently. I know PRINCE OF PERSIA is obviously a radically different movie, it’s a very big movie and there are probably much broader strokes, I would imagine, but did you find stuff that you learned there, you were able to carry over with you?
Jake Gyllenhaal: I did BROTHERS and then right after BROTHERS I did this movie with David O. Russell which has yet to come out, but that’s its own beast. David is incredible, but it was like BROTHERS, NAILED or THE NAIL I think we are calling it now, and then it was PRINCE OF PERSIA and then from PRINCE OF PERSIA I did this movie with Ed Zwick and now I’m doing this with Duncan and the progression for me personally, particularly with PRINCE OF PERSIA in the middle of it, which was a massive learning experience. It was like… You know, I’ve never been on something that big where there were three of me every day. Do you know what I mean? There would literally be three of me. There are three guys and then literally three of me. (laughs)
I would be on one unit and they’d be like “Okay, we are done. We need you to come over to this unit.” I would be like “When’s lunch?” They’d be like “Well, you know we started on second…” and I’d be like “Wait a second, I started on first unit, my lunch should be now!” [Laughing] They were like “Well, second unit started at this time, so lunch is at 3.” I’m like “I started at 6!” And then go over to special effects.
It was funny, because it’s like tag team, like I would finish with Mike and then I would move over to second unit and then there’d be like a guy who looked like me doing stuff and I’d be like “Alright, tag you out. It’s my turn now.”
They’d be like “Okay, we’ve got Jake, time for close ups. Time for that thing. We are going to do this and…” “Okay, tag you out” and “Special effects needs you.” I would go over there and I’d take off all of my clothes and they’d scan me and I’d put my clothes back on and go over to second unit again.
It required an intensity and a focus that I have actually then brought to this work I do now and I’ve developed techniques that have really helped me. Even if the movie is smaller… I just develop these really wonderful things. I see actors do funny things, but I have in the past who have had great experience in films and I’ve been like “What are they doing?”
I worked with Dustin Hoffman and he gave me a walker, like an old person’s walker, at the end and I was like “What?” He always would warm up before a scene doing like triceps pull-ups on a walker to get his energy up and I’m like “That’s crazy… Let’s just act!” and now cut to me doing triceps work to get my energy up, but those types of things… I think those little idiosyncrasies create a sense of presence and a knowing of yourself that I think helps your work definitely and I learned so much on this movie. It was an incredible process.
Quint: I can imagine…
[A representative comes in and notifies that there’s only time for one more question.]
Quint: Well if I’ve got one more question, I have to talk about Duncan.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Yes.
Quint: So, how far along are you in the movie?
Jake Gyllenhaal: We are almost done.
Quint: Really? Are you shooting in London?
Jake Gyllenhaal: No, we are shooting in Montreal. We are shooting the coolest shit right now, man. I can’t even tell you.
Quint: I’ve got to bug him “Hey, the studio might not want it, but I want to come up!”
Jake Gyllenhaal: I’m telling you man, he is really quite something. His mind… He comes from quite a pedigree, just artistically, but on his own I believe he is the next generation. He is blowing my mind on a daily basis.
Quint: What’s interesting with him is he is kind of like the quiet Quentin Tarantino, where it’s like he has such amazing film knowledge. Like when I went to MOON he was wearing the most badass CLOCKWORK ORANGE t-shirt I’ve ever seen. I’m like, “Wow, I know I like you already.”
Jake Gyllenhaal: He has collector’s edition t-shirts on like every day and people come up and they are like “Dude, where’d you get that shirt?” I’m “It’s just a shirt, I have no idea.” [Laughs]
To me, working with him… It’s surprising, his instinct, his sense of collaboration, but at the same time truly being an auteur… I don’t know man, it’s nice, because I feel like I’ve talked to a lot of journalists who have really responded to his movie and know that and I knew that when I saw it and I think people… Everyone I’ve been like “Have you seen MOON?” They’re always like “Everyone says it’s so good, I need to see it.” He’s the real deal man. Anyone who has seen it knows that and this… you are really going to like it!
That’s a bit of a scattershot interview, but I think it gives you a taste of his enthusiasm for the process. Imagine the section where he’s talking about there being three of him on the Prince of Persia set every day and read it in your mind with Jake Gyllenhaal, eyes wide, pacing around the room, talking in run-on sentences.
The dude’s got the passion and he’s got the chops. And I’m so intrigued by Source Code right now you have no idea!
-Quint
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When I entered the room to chat with Gyllenhaal he directed me to a chair that was right up next to the window. There was a slight counter top build up against the glass that Gyllenhaal perched himself on, which, when sitting in the chair, put me the awkward position of having his crotch being at eye level.
That boy loves to show off!
Quint really likes Jake :)
Quint: I was very shocked that it got ignored during the awards season.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Really?
LOL!
Bomer is 5' 11½"
Ah! I'm guessing Jake is around 6" - Matt doesn't need the platforms then, lol.
What?!
Jake Gyllenhaal: You know, I think those things take on lives of their own, it’s like sometimes things catch and sometimes things don’t, but it doesn’t make it any more or less of a movie, I guess. I’m really proud of that movie as a marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me, so thank you. That means a lot.
A new beginning? Sounds good, nice to hear Jake is really into acting.
I hope this "new beginning" doesn't include more films like PoP.
"marker of sort of a new beginning in understanding of acting for me"
Yes Jake learned how to act better for his photo ops with his beard and he probably realized that nothing is more important than pushing the PR agenda as we saw with his behavior during his Reeke time.
I hope this "new beginning" doesn't include more films like PoP.
Me too.
Yes Jake learned how to act better for his photo ops with his beard and he probably realized that nothing is more important than pushing the PR agenda as we saw with his behavior during his Reeke time.
Yes, Reese was a mistake, but i think it's time to move on and stop holding it against him.
I mean i didn't like his behaviour in many regards during Reeke, but now it's over and time to move on.
7:50 AM, touche! Don't shoot me but I think Jake should talk less and show more. Self-confidence is great, pretentiousness is not.
What should Jake show more?
I think Jake'll be good in Source Code. I think that's his kind of movie. His best performance, imo, he gave in Donnie Darko. The role just fitted. I think he'll be ok in LAOD, but Anne will get more attention and PoP he'll probably be ok too, idk if the movie itself will be ok though. Hopefully.
What should Jake show more?
Quality acting. He was good in Brothers but he didn't shine like he did in Donnie Darko, BBM or Jarhead. I don't know what was wrong with his understanding of acting before, his role choices before Brother were much better imo (I'm looking forward to Source Code, though). What's obvious to me is that after Brothers he decided to take the commercial route more.
Not really - Untitled Moon Project and Damn Yankees sound more commercial, but LAOD and Source Code don't.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the covery of GQ May 2010
LAOD doesn't sound commercial, on what planet? Did you read the comments of those who have seen it: fratboy humour, lots of nudity and sex, romance, etc?
On planet Earth :)
fratboy humour
??? Since when?
In some reviews it was mentioned that there was fratboy humor like 8:25 said.
Did you read the comments of those who have seen it
Yes. LAOD seems to be a good movie, not a commercial movie.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the covery of GQ May 2010
I don't like the photo. He's much better looking IRL.
Yes. LAOD seems to be a good movie, not a commercial movie.
Huh? The one doesn't rule the other out. I don't think LAOD is an indie film, I think it's supposed to make good money at the b.o.
In some reviews it was mentioned that there was fratboy humor like 8:25 said.
Where?
IMDb reviews
Yes. LAOD seems to be a good movie, not a commercial movie.
LOL, okay. Discussing this any further seems pointless after this little gem.
One more time for 8:36 AM:
Based on the LAOD reviews, LAOD seems to be a good movie and does not seem to be a typical commercial movie.
Clear enough?
8:33 AM -
Read the Hollywood Elsewhere review:
HE
Where?
IMDb reviews
I don't know what review it was and sorry, but I don't have the time to look for it. What I know is what I read. I'm not lying. You can believe me or not.
Clear enough?
That's not how you said it the first time.
And what is wrong with you anyway? Everyone here hopes that LAOD will turn out well. *rolling my eyes here*
I don't know what review it was and sorry, but I don't have the time to look for it. What I know is what I read. I'm not lying. You can believe me or not.
It was the HE review that I posted above.
Anyway, so what if there is frat boy humor? What's important is that it'll turn out funny.
Read the Hollywood Elsewhere review
LAOD isn't just another romcom or cheap laughs comedy. One example:
They movie spends some time on the Parkinson's effects. She and Jake go to a big drug fair, and there's an alternative convention across the street focusing on organic Parkinson's remedies, and she goes over to this event. We see some real Parkinson's people talking up their personal stuff the way the unemployed talked for Up In The Air. At one point she's shown taking senior citizens across the border to get cheaper drugs in Canada.
"The script take pains to paint the Gyllenhaal character as a rake, a ladies' man. Zwick doesn't do that good a job in some respects. There's a lot of bullshit Eloi humor and basically shitty schtick. Mostly about the younger brother being a fat-ass.
I personally am not offended by this kind of humor, if it's not totally tasteless. If it makes me laugh, it's what counts.
Anne Hathaway's performance as Jake Gyllenhaal's Parkinson's-afflicted love interest in Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs is "wonderful, really wonderful...she knocks it out of the park."
I hope she'll continue to get such positive reviews. Fingers crossed. I want this to be a critical hit. After Rendition and Brothers a critical hit would be neat for Jake.
LAOD isn't just another romcom or cheap laughs comedy.
For fuck's sake, can you READ? Did I say anywhere it was a cheap laughs comedy? I said it was a commercial movie, not only because of the humor also the nudity and sex and love story. Going by the reviews/comments I read, that's clear, disagree all you want. Commercial doesn't exclude quality fyi.
And what is wrong with you anyway? Everyone here hopes that LAOD will turn out well.
Huh? What LAOD being or not being a commercial movie has to do with its future box office? A commercial movie can flop, and artistic movie can make money.
Huh? What LAOD being or not being a commercial movie has to do with its future box office? A commercial movie can flop, and artistic movie can make money.
Of course. But a commercial movie is supposed to make money whereas an indie film not as much.
LAOD is expected to make money and let's hope it will.
Sounds to me like "commercial movie" has different meanings to different people. It will be interesting to see how LAOD is marketed.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the covery of GQ May 2010
Not the best picture I've ever seen of him - and it can't be the best picture they shot that day. Makes you wonder how they chose it. I like his outfit though.
Sounds to me like "commercial movie" has different meanings to different people.
ITA.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the covery of GQ May 2010
I feel like slapping someone, lol. Disney managed to make Jake look bad in a movie and posters, and now this.
Jake Gyllenhaal on the cover of GQ May 2010
Jake's skin is light green? WTF?
I mean i didn't like his behaviour in many regards during Reeke, but now it's over and time to move on.
7:59, do you think he will beard again? I'm unsure myself. Sometimes I think he won't because it's hard for me to believe there's anyone out there who can't see how phony it looked (although I know a lot of people bought it or at least pretended to buy it). But, who knows? Maybe his people think they could do it better next time.
leslief80: Stephen Gyllenhaal is now following me on twitter, does that mean I have to watch what I say about his son? ;-)
5 minutes ago
7:59, do you think he will beard again? I'm unsure myself.
I think Jake might be unsure himself.
*Jake Gyllenhaal on the covery of GQ May 2010*
WTF? HE LOOKS GREEN!!!
Only his face looks green, his hand looks fine.
WTF? HE LOOKS GREEN!!!
LOL, he does. But that's just a twitpic of the cover - let's hope the actual cover is better. Although, green aside, it's still not a great pic :/
I think LaOD is up quite a few notches from the usual commercial offerings. As far as the fratboy humor, a movie has to be reflective of how people are in real life, and you have that. I don't usually like movies where that's all there is, but it's part of the story here. I like the sounds of Anne's character, and Jake's. I'm sure Jake will do indie films too. It's great for him as an actor to have such breadth of experience in films, and hopefully, he'll make his own films one day!
Although, green aside, it's still not a great pic :/
Jake and/or GQ did their best to make him look unsexy.
GQ May 2010 cover - Jake Gyllenhaal is ready for some action
More like ready for National Green Schools Initiative promotion!
I'm sure Jake will do indie films too.
I hope so. Right now Jake needs a hit, a good movie that will make money and keep him in the spotlight. Not sure if PoP can do that for Jake.
Justin Bieber isn’t thrilled with this cover. Thinks he looks ‘real crazy.’ (Agreed) Justin Bieber shot a Tweet to People magazine in response to his cover debut yesterday.
Dear @peoplemag Covershoot…next time i laugh real crazy warn me u r still taking pics…still appreciate u but let’s get on the same page
EXCLUSIVE story and pics in the new issue of @peoplemag . I look crazy as heck on the cover but if u cant laugh at yourself u aint havin fun
Well said, Bieber. Well said.
Justin Bieber On People Cover
Right now Jake needs a hit, a good movie that will make money and keep him in the spotlight. Not sure if PoP can do that for Jake.
I honestly don't see how PoP can fail to do that. That's not a judgment on the quality of the movie, despite hype and pre-reviews, that can't be determined yet and is subjective in any case. But I don't see how it can't make money and keep him in the spotlight - at least for a while. And then he moves on to LAOD ... :)
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I honestly don't see how PoP can fail to do that.
PoP isn't an actor's movie.
Jeff Goldblum was in three hugely popular movies with fantastic box office (Independence Day and two Jurassic Park movies) but that didn't turn him into a movie star.
The GQ cover is fine. I want him to address the Aussie girl rumors although I know its the same Lainey story recyled over a million times.
Jake did address the Aussie girl rumors - Jake said that he doesn't know her and certainly doesn't date her.
I honestly don't see how PoP can fail to do that.
PoP isn't an actor's movie.
Jeff Goldblum was in three hugely popular movies with fantastic box office (Independence Day and two Jurassic Park movies) but that didn't turn him into a movie star.
This feels like a non sequitir to me. Who said it was an "actor's movie"? No one. 10:50 said: "Right now Jake needs a hit, a good movie that will make money and keep him in the spotlight." I think it will make money and it will keep him in the "spotlight" which means to me give him so good publicity for a while. I'm not sure how "movie star" is defined - it sounds to me like it's a matter of opinion, like "commercial," lol. But I think Jake already is considered more of a "movie star" than Goldblum ever was, maybe in part due to his "heartthrob" status. And he does have a BAFTA and an Oscar nom (yeah, I know that doesn't equal "movie star") but I don't think you can just dismiss those achievements either.
PoP can't help Jake's career, let's hope it won't damage it.
I think it will make money and it will keep him in the "spotlight" which means to me give him so good publicity for a while.
People won't go and watch PoP because Jake is playing Prince Dastan.
Keep him in the spotlight = keep him relevant and in demand as an actor.
I'm sure Brendan Frasier thought with movies like Gods and Monsters, George of the Jungle and the Mummy movies that he'd be a big star too.
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People won't go and watch PoP because Jake is playing Prince Dastan.
LOL. For lots of Jake fangirls, that's the ONLY reason they are talking about PoP and the only reason they will be first in line for tickets. They wouldn't think twice about it otherwise.
Keep him in the spotlight = keep him relevant and in demand as an actor.
Okay. But PoP isn't his last movie. As I said, LAOD and Source Code both sound really promising.
For lots of Jake fangirls, that's the ONLY reason they are talking about PoP and the only reason they will be first in line for tickets.
A few thousand fangirls have zero importance in this (box office) case.
LAOD and Source Code both sound really promising.
They do.
Dear Ted:
Good for Anna Paquin for coming out of the closet! She truly is a courageous young woman! My question is, why don't gay celebrities like Toothy Tile and Grey Goose just come out of the closet as bisexual instead of gay? They could still be the subject of teen girls' fantasies, but they could also date who they actually want to while occasionally fitting in a beard or two. Does that make sense?
—CEA
Dear One Way:
For nonhating people like you and me, sure it makes sense. But you're forgetting there are a helluva lot of folks that so are not OK with the bisexuality—as if anybody asked their permission in the first place. Even if it's a hot babe like Anna or Megan or Angie.
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A few thousand fangirls have zero importance in this (box office) case.
*shrug* I don't know how many "fangirls" there are, but okay. And even if people don't go to see Jake as Dastan, maybe they'll come away liking Jake and wanting to see more of him after the movie, who knows? I'm not saying this is his big cinematic moment, but I think some of the cynicism may be a little overblown. But maybe I'm wrong. Won't be long now till we find out, though :)
Please note that fangirls don't equal fans - fangirls are die hard fans :)
Please note that fangirls don't equal fans - fangirls are die hard fans :)
Yes, I understand that :)
7:59, do you think he will beard again?
I'm not sure. But i wouldn't be surprised if he did (unfortunately). If so, i hope he chooses someone better than that ditz. She is a typical blonde (dyed) airhead. Although Kiki was too.
Any news about Austin and Sophia?
Anne to adopt a dog. :)
JJ
She has the most amazing hair.
They're his own testicles, not someone else's:
"Broadway veteren Hugh Jackman is set to appear alongside Kate Winslet in a new movie by the Farrelly brothers. In the film, Jackman wil play an unfortunate man whose testicals are attached to his chin. Winslet, his date for the night, is the only person who seems to notice this oddity. While the movie remains untitled, it's anthology style will feature a series of 17 short films. Jackman and Winslet began shooting scenes this week at the Thompson Gild Hall hotel in the Financial District. The ensemble cast also includes Gerard Butler, Naomi Watts, Justin Long and Sam Rockwell."
The film is the concept of There's Something About Mary director Peter Farrelly.
Hugh Jackman to Play Man with Testicles Attached to His Chin
If so, i hope he chooses someone better than that ditz. She is a typical blonde (dyed) airhead.
You really think so? Reese is a phony, for sure - but no ditz or airhead. From what I can tell, she's pretty shrewd when it comes to publicity and trying to work the media to her advantage. She's no dumb blonde - she's a manipulator, not the one being manipulated.
From what I can tell, she's pretty shrewd when it comes to publicity and trying to work the media to her advantage. She's no dumb blonde - she's a manipulator, not the one being manipulated.
Yes, in this regard she is smart, but she still strikes me as not very intelligent. You know what i mean?
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