Dancing with Jake Gyllenhaal - and Nailed almost wraps, but not quite...

Nailed kind of wrapped last Wednesday, but not really. Although shooting continues, a wrap party was held for cast and crew at the Vista Bar at the Liberty Taproom in Columbia. Maybe the producers thought the crew needed a break from the long hours working or the long hours not working because of bouncing cheques. Whichever way, Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Biel weren't there, but James Marsden, Paul Reubens and Kirsty Gore were, the latter dancing away to 'These Boots were Made for Walking.' It sounds like quite a night: '“So when’s the movie coming out?” someone asked. They’re still working on it.'


Dancing with Jake

Jake might not have been at the party, but, in real need of some light relief after having had to call out half of the county's constabulary last night, I thought I'd have a look at another of Jake's winning features - not his eyes or his lips or hair this time, but his dancing feet. Jake told Cosmopolitan: 'I can't dance... But I can sing', but the evidence suggests that Jake is a man with moves. So here are some of my favourite dancing Jake moments. It is a Saturday night after all.



The Music Festival Dance

In September 2006, Jake was seen bopping away in the wings of the ACL festival in Texas, alongside Lance Armstrong. Jake, Lance and Matt McConaughey were seen watching a number of bands including Gnarls Berkley, Thievery Corporation, Ray LaMontagne and Cat Power.



Not having been to ACL myself, I do not know if this festival is similar to those in the UK, which entail attaching a huge flag to your tent so that you may have some hope of finding it again, lining up for hours for a portaloo and firting over a veggieburger. Oh, and the mud - ACL looks sunny, fortunately, so that one may be avoided.





Here you can see, as Jake saw, Cat Power's version of Crazy from the 2006 ACL festival (just look for the teeny blip in white off-stage...).



Dancing by moonlight



Seasonal Dancing

The Santa hat dance has now become a tradition in many Gyllenhaalic households following Jake's demonstration of just how it should be done. If you haven't mastered it yet, I suppose I can bear to look at it again...



The Sun Dance

In 2004, Jake and Zooey Deschanel took to the Sundance Festival stage with some enthusiasm.



Incidentally, in an interview today, Zooey mentions Jake (and Kate Hudson) with whom she attended the Santa Monica's Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. Of schoolboy Jake she says, 'Jake was always extremely funny and charismatic.'


The Rain Dance

There are many dances in Brokeback Mountain, not all of them are to music. As Jake said of Jack Twist: 'I think Jack is a bad dancer, first and foremost. He can’t waltz very well, and in the scene where he has to waltz with the girl, Anna Faris’s character, I couldn’t ever get it. I don’t know why. I look like a fool if you look at it again... I think that our personalities definitely play into, but I do think he’s dancing but his dance is more of a rain dance than a ballet.'


One scene in particular was famously treated like a dance, but the whole of the way in which Jack and Ennis related to each other could be seen as a dance: 'I think there’s a part of him that wants to progress, wants to change, and wants to move forward and he’s constantly pushing Ennis to come out of his shell, but it’s that dance between the two of them that I think makes the two of them fall in love.'


The Come-and-get-me Dance

Demonstrating that Jake knows what we want, Jake managed to comine both sex and comedy in his wiggle.


Could this be my favourite?



Includes pictures from IHJ and Flickr.