Jake - 'I have this awful masochistic and horribly perverse side of me that just wants to destroy your national treasure'

Sometimes I think I really should go around humming 'It's a small world, after all' - or maybe not (incidentally, this ride was shut when I was at Disneyland the other week and that's after I had plucked up all my nerve going on it). The reason this time is that I was thinking about seeing Peter Sarsgaard the other evening and I remembered that I had rather glossed over the fact that young actress Carey Mulligan had also been there, being made to cycle backwards and forwards with a sultry expression on her face while the sun reached its optimum filming position. All well and good, albeit repetitive, but today I learned that she is also in Brothers!


Carey Mulligan portrays a characeter called Cassie Willis in Brothers. I wonder whether this is an English character or an American and I also wonder if her role is to do with Jake's or Tobey Maguire's. The interconnectedness (if that's not a madeup word) of the moviemaking universe constantly surprises me and proves that coincidences are commonplace in that world which is so different from mine, and yet, every so often, brushes with it.


While looking around over the last few days to try and find out more about why Jake does certain roles and what it is about - say - a superhero or videogame part that catches his eye, I rediscovered these old quotes from Jake, made during the Day After Tomorrow promotions. Here, Jake mentions his association with Spider-man during those days when Tobey was walking away from the franchise, only to return. But there is another quote here about another role that, in the end, didn't happen for whatever reason - Romeo. For a while this was a true option for Jake and would have taken place back on the West End boards of London: 'I have this awful masochistic and horribly perverse side of me that just wants to destroy your national treasure.' A great quote but definitely this would not have been the case.


If you can get these soundbites to play anything other than white noise then I'll buy you a pint.

I've been distracted this evening by some Zodiac weirdness (it must be the evening for oddities). I came across Zodiackiller, which presents a series of audio clips combining to form the two-hour long Graysmith Unmasked. In between the story of Robert Graysmith's hunt to uncover the identity of the serial killer, there are snippets of information about the film, including clips from radio interviews with Jake I've not heard before. Jake soon sets off to discuss how this film would have been very different if there had been cell phones and fax machines but it is always good to hear his voicw. But what sets this apart for me, is that the interviews are mixed with audio clips from the film, from films which tell a contemporary tale and with some great sounds. Not only that, there is a commentary that just grips and is not just a little bit creepy. This is one such file.


In this clip, set against a bit of rock psychedelia, we have Jake talking about his feelings on meeting Robert and how different he was from Jake's expectations. Although, having said that, there was something a little 'persistent' about him.


I've not heard all of this yet but I'm going to. I would suggest that you plug in your headphones, dim the lights and pour yourself a glass of something and steep yourself in Zodiac and 70s' madness. There's even some Arthur Leigh Allen. A mesmerising presentation of the case, the suspects and its interpreters.


Includes pictures from IHJ.