[Updated] The Love and Other Drugs Pajama Party! The GyllenGuide to what to wear and what not to wear

Actress Katheryn Winnick is in Love and Other Drugs and yesterday, in a passing tweet aboout filming, she happened to drop a bombshell: 'Shooting pajama party scene's today. Lot's of beautiful people in itsy bitsy clothing..' Yes, my fellow Gyllenhaalics, we're talking 'pajama party', 'beautiful people', 'itsy bitsy clothing'. While it is conceivable - although downright unreasonable and miserable to suggest so - that Katheryn is referring to a non-Jake-Gyllenhaal scene, I like to think that Ed Zwick knows very well what we want and he's going to give it to us - in jimjams.


Of course, Ed Zwick would be following a long and fine tradition. Directors have fitted Jake Gyllenhaal out in night attire for almost a decade. It is equally true to say that sometimes the directors have forgotten to actually provide Jake with night attire, presumably due to high temperatures under those studio lights.


Never one to put my own needs above those of science and the greater common good, I thought I would conduct some meticulous and arduous research and so aid Ed Zwick and future Jake directors in their vital pajama research.


Pajamas

Jimmy Livingston would have been king of the pajama party. He not only had train pajamas (as, surely, 98% of all men would if allowed ), he had cowboy jammies. It's possible that Jake's decision to take on the role of Jack Twist was a direct consequence of these little cowboys.



Pajamas are not just for sleeping in

Pajamas have to be put through a range of night time activities and so should be up to the task. Look no further than Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko didn't just sleep in pajamas, he cycled up and down mountains in them.


He even played golf wearing them (or at least slept on golf greens which is about as exciting).


Short versus long

In the commentary to Moonlight Mile, Jake wondered whether his bum looked saggy in his bedtime boxers. Whether it did or not is redundant because Joe Nast was continually modelling these shorts up and down the hallway and constantly had a bedside audience in a household where the main night time activity was watching Joe Nast sleep.


Sometimes, Joe did manage to break free but he couldn't take it all with him.



Socks and shorts

While filming Zodiac, Jake developed his taste for socks as the all-round, all-purpose accessory. Maybe if one wears socks all the time it means you can't lose them.


On and off

Sometimes a director must make allowances for Jake not being able to make up his mind: On?


Or off...?


Camping on chilly mountain tops

Of course, on a mountain top, conditions can vary enormously, meaning that sometimes one has to wear the full sheep coat pajama set. No high performance North Face then...


But sometimes it warms up nicely.


One wonders what early medieval Persian pajamas will look like?

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Katheryn has just posted a picture from the filming! Unfortunately while we have itsy bitsy clothing and beautiful people, Jake appears to be absent. I like to think he was in the kitchen making some tea or breakfast when this was taken...


Updated to add: A guy involved with the LAOD shoot has this evening tweeted about the scene: 'Days 2 on "Love and Other Drugs" and the clothes comes off. Shooting same scene as yesterday but now it's an orgy. I have a pretty good job'. One day a pajama party, the next an orgy... it's like watching a teenager grow up.

Includes pictures from IHJ and thanks to Katheryn Winnick.