A saddle for two and My fair lady - Jake and Maggie in the public eye

Now that I've had time to sit down and thoroughly enjoy the fabulous pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal giving us a glimpse of just what we can expect from the Prince of Persia, here are a few more pictures, courtesy of IHJ. And how about this for a choice job? Testing the Prince's saddle for two...




And now some hours have passed, I can look beyond the length of Jake's hair, the smile on his face, and the muscles in his arms and chest, and did I mention the boots?, to look at the saddle. This is clearly a very different type of saddle from the western one Jack Twist rode in Brokeback, but that befits this whole new type of horseriding, involving carting around heroines while conducting serious amounts of swashbuckling with a mighty sword.



I must say how good it is to see Jake working with Gemma Arterton all ready. For all those who missed the video in yesterday's post, with pleasure, here it is again.




A touch of style

With great thanks to a fashionable colleague with a thing for shoes - who also knows that giving me a magazine with a Gyllenhaal on the cover is a good way of getting copious amounts of tea out of me (at least, that's what I tell her) - we can see Maggie on the cover of the July issue of the online fashion store magazine Asos.


Maggie is well known as a lover of fashion, attending shows recently in New York City and Paris, but she is also someone who is not afraid to stand out as being different: 'I'm not interested in clothes to the point where they'll push things out of my mind. I just see them as a way of expressing yourself - and a pleasure, really... But I know that, ultimately, fashion is not that important. I see fashion, though, as a way of thinking about who I am.' Maggie's fashion icon is Audrey Hepburn, 'especially in My Fair Lady. I was dumbstruck by the crown of diamonds. I love that film. She is amazing. I also admire Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julie Christie in her old films.'


On London: 'I loved shooting in London. I ate at so many good restaurants. I loved walking around with my family and I just loved the city.'


And finally, 'I'm just a normal girl who thinks it is a pain when I can't fit into my favourite pair of jeans. But it never bothers me enough to do anything about it. Saying that, we all go through days when we are paranoid about our bodies.' Of course, some of us have more need for that than others...


Pictures from IHJ and Asos.