Jake Gyllenhaal - Wouldn't you be afraid?

If yesterday was all about Zodiac in the newspapers, today it was the turn of other media. A video interview with Jake Gyllenhaal appeared on the UK's Channel 5 today, and another one turned up on the internet, both of which were filmed on the same day, again when Jake was in London for the BAFTAs in February this year.


The Channel 5 video is a familiar one, having been broadcast on Sky TV earlier in the year. It includes an embarrassing moment when the female interviewer, clearly not quite knowing how to tackle this vision before her, asked Jake about his love life: 'It's all good', he responds, tongue firmly in cheek. Of more interest is Jake's expression of his amazement at how Robert Graysmith would sit outside the main suspect's house, night after night, in a bright orange car and not be afraid. "Wouldn't you be afraid?"

The other interview, from the same day but with a male interviewer, focuses more upon the film and the difficulties Jake faced playing a person from real life. Despite the meticulous booklets of information supplied by David Fincher (a thousand pages long), Jake had to deal with playing a character that he could not imagine himself being, in a dark place he would always avoid. "This is a place where I could never see myself going" - it was hard and a "little scarey".

Pictures from IHJ.