Jake on his career: 'Lately, it's felt like a great responsibility'

Jake Gyllenhaal didn't just see the sites when he was in Rome, he also promoted Rendition, and I was so pleased to come across this video. It shows the E!/Sky interview, which I saw recorded directly across from where I was standing by the red carpet. It's good now to be able to hear what Jake was saying, although it does mean having to relive the kissing... I had no idea, and apparently neither did Jake, that purple is an unlucky colour. I wonder if we will ever see Jake wear a purple tie again. I suspect with some careful pausing I may be able to find myself in that crowd - I was very close to the Walk the Line banner, just to its left.




Brothers getting underway

Thanks to IHJ, we now have more photos of Jake's meeting with Jim Sheridan, the director of Brothers, in LA yesterday. As was pointed out by Jantoinette in the comments to a previous thread, a poster at IMDb has said that at least part of the film will be shot at 'The College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. They start on Monday and they're there for 18 weeks.' That sounds like a long shoot to me. The Monday referred to is last Monday when obviously Jake wasn't there and, judging from these photos, neither was the director but work could be underway.




The inscrutable Douglas?

An enjoyable short interview with Jake, recorded over the phone, turned up today on Indiana's Indystar media site. In addition to some very familiar comments from Jake about the character of Douglas Freeman (he must know them by rote now), Jake also comments 'People have said to me, 'All the characters you play, you can really read everything going on on your face.' I wanted to play a part where you didn't read anything, you know. Where he's almost invisible and functioned, like in apathy rather than emoting.' It's possible then that this interpretation of Douglas, and Jake's method of playing him, could be construed as a conscious reaction to Jack Twist. However, I would argue, that the manner in which Jake as Douglas averts his eyes or chews his lip or nods his head speaks louder than words. I don't think Jake is capable of not being expressive and all of his characters are graced by that.


Speaking of his career, Jake says 'Lately, it's felt like a great responsibility... It's an interesting thing, in our generation at least, to be thrust into (a position of importance). There's the line from 'Spider-Man': 'With great power comes great responsibility.'' I've just realised that, in the last few days, we've had Jake quote Shakespeare, Eminem and now Spider-Man. I wonder if this sense of responsibility, almost of a burden, was a reason for the six-month break.

Interestingly, Jake says that he aimed on having the torture scenes 'affect me as little as possible... [which] gave me perspective on the fact that it really happens.'


Jake's hope that Rendition can 'aid in a discussion that's just beginning' is mirrored in a passionate article in the Guardian, in which Peter Tatchell, urges everyone to go and see Rendition so that we will all know what is being done in our name. Ignorance should not be an excuse. I posted a link to this last night, but I don't want it to be lost.

And finally...

Thanks to a poster at IHJ, we can all enjoy this appearance of Jake and Peter Sarsgaard in InStyle magazine this week. It also provides a fun look at Jake's handwriting.


The lovely Emmy Rossum has just released an album of 'ambient pop' called Inside Out. In this interview in USA Today she gives Jake a brief mention, descibing him fondly as 'A prankster. The big brother I never had.'


Includes pictures from IHJ and InStyle.