Jake interviews Selma Blair for Interview Magazine in 2002

In 2002, Jake Gyllenhaal starred in Highway along with Jared Leto and Selma Blair. I did some searching around and found that, just as David Fincher interviewed Jake for Interview magazine in October, Jake interviewed Selma for the same magazine at the end of 2002.


The interview shows a real warmth, demonstrated from the very beginning as Selma sets the scene by saying that Jake is talking to her (presumably by phone) while she is 'lying on the ground, talking to you with my dog licking my ear. My windows are open, it's sunny and I'm happy. I just wish I saw you more.'

Amongst Selma's answers to Jake's questions about her new projects, there are glimpses of Jake, just as we had peeps into David Fincher when he interveiwed Jake. For instance, Jake's excitement at seeing the band that opened for Selma's boyfriend at a gig in LA: 'JG: Seeing as you're in Los Angeles, did you check out your boyfriend Jason's [Schwartzman] band, Phantom Planet, at the Troubadour when they played? SB: Yeah. They've gotten so good. Actually, you have to see the band that opened up for them. They're called the Like-- JG: --I know! The Like is fabulous. SB: You know them? Wow! I was trying to get into the Troubadour last night to see them again but I couldn't. JG: I was there last night. It was sold out.'


One thing Jake said really made me think. You'll be well aware that in so many interviews Jake says something completely off the wall. It makes us laugh and love Jake more but sometimes I wonder where these thoughts come from. In this interview, Jake owned up to dreaming up words which he would then try and get into interviews (I've done a very similar thing but with Brokeback or Jake quotes in meetings): 'JG: Here's a good story for you: Yesterday I was doing a press junket, and at the beginning of the day I told the publicist who was guiding me around, "I'm going to get two words into my interviews by the end of the day--angora and mauve." Sure enough, by the end of the day, angora and mauve had been used in at least two interviews. SB: How did angora come up? JG: They asked me what the movie I was plugging felt like, and I said, "Angora."'


And the interview ends. 'JG: You know, the nice thing about you is you aim to please--which is why I'm so endeared by you. SB: Aww. JG: And because you tell me you want to have sex with me all the time. [both laugh] JG: Not like that. No, no. You say it in a much more loving way. SB: I don't really say it like that!' Jake describes Selma as: "this beautiful, random, crazy woman. We met making a movie together and we spent most of our time fake humping each other. From there, our friendship formed."


I've paid for this article and it won't let me link to it at the moment, so please bear with me.

Includes pictures from IHJ.

Edited to add: There are new pap pictures of Jake and Reese eating out at Madeos on Friday night. The pictures were taken of the pair inside the restaurant and so I won't be posting them - they're far too intrusive and I believe everyone should be allowed to eat in peace. If you want to look at them, it's your choice and they're here. Talking of which, isn't it time for that Bloody Mary you promised me?