Jake - 'Can I go back and do my part over again?'

According to Variety, Nailed may be back up and running today for its last push before the next uphill struggle - getting the film put together, distributed and onto our screens. Only two days are left for filming, although probably without Jake Gyllenhaal who has probably reached that happy stage where he can put Nailed behind him. The last shooting will cover a key restaurant scene. Incidentally, a poster on IMDb has said that Jake's character's name in Nailed is not Howard Ryder but Howard Birdwell, which, if it's true, sounds a little better.


When Anne Hathaway arrived at the Australian premiere of Get Smart on the Gold Coast this week, her thoughts were also on the role that gave her confidence as an actress:


'But there was one other role she considers a personal breakthrough - playing Jake Gyllenhaal's wife in Brokeback Mountain. Hathaway said she had sobbed for an hour after seeing the film. "That was the film that I decided I wanted to be an actor," she said. "I didn't know if I had the chops for it. It was the first time I really came up against my own limitations and surpassed them. I remember thinking if this possible once, it's possible again and it's worth spending the rest of my life trying to get back to this place. Before then, I was having a lot of fun acting but it didn't feel inevitable."'


Talking of Jake's co-stars, and how actors can grow from particular roles or from working with particular actors, I liked this tribute from Jake to Peter Sarsgaard, regarding working with the older actor on Jarhead: 'Gyllenhaal was left in awe. "I spent the whole movie going, 'Is Peter just lazy? Does he care to be here?' "Gyllenhaal says. "And in that remarkable big moment, the crux of the film, I sat there after three or four takes, all phenomenal, and I shook my head. You could see all the dominoes that he'd lined up, in his performance, up to then. He knocked them over, and I was like, 'Whoa. What? Can I go back and do my part over again? From the start?' You never know what he's doing. But he's just lining up the dominoes."'



Includes pictures from IHJ.