Work with Jake Gyllenhaal and you can have snacks and a bit of habitat. Peter Sarsgaard talks tea and football

There are so many extras in Love and Other drugs that the supply of Pittsburgh people (Pittsburghians? Pittsburgs?) has now dried up. The producers are having to resort to new methods to get people to spend a minimum of 12 hours in the company of Jake Gyllenhaal. Here is where they're going wrong - they would only have to look in my direction and I'd be there for a minimum of 12 days but, instead, they're now bribing potential extras by giving them snacks and offering money to habitat construction charities. While I would never turn down a jaffa cake to work with Jake Gyllenhaal, I wouldn't like a casting agency to think I demand it. More here.


Last night An Education continued its pre-award season trailblazing with an LA premiere. As well as doing a very good job of showing off Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard also talked more about working in England. He will miss the football. As this is a British blog, I'll leave out the inverted commas around football, whilst also assuming that Peter is referring to Man Utd.


'The US actor premiered his new movie An Education in Hollywood and told reporters the best part about living in England was "football". As for the movie, set in 60s Britain, Peter explained it was important to make sure certain elements were factually correct, saying: "We had the Brits keeping us accurate about, you know, how to make the tea - those details are great."' I admit it's complicated - you put a teabag in a cup, pour water on it and add milk to taste. As the subject of tea has popped up, I recall a recent trip to the US when I asked in a cafe what type of tea they served. 'It's in a bag,' they replied. More from Peter here.


Peter also let loose that his next movie will take him to Boston: 'He revealed he’s about to leave for Boston to be in director James Mangold’s “Wichita” opposite Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. When I asked what character he’d be playing, he’d only say he was Tom Cruise’s foil. Does that mean he’s the villain? I don’t know. But I do know he hadn’t been announced as part of the cast yet.'


Another site has dropped hints to a future, revealing interview with Peter, conducted in Toronto: In it, 'he spoke pretty forthrightly about why “K-19” and “Jarhead” didn’t do well at the box office, who his initial fan base was (“Very, very damaged women”), what his choices are like (“I don’t have the pick of the litter”) and why he never wants to make a big movie with his wife.' Peter impressed nj.com.


Clifton Collins Jr has been talking about Brothers again as he continues to promote his zombie movie: 'I just wanted to collaborate with [Jim] and work with him and that's what he does. He's a big collaborator and he's all about the truth, and the truth of the scene and the honesty in it. Working with Toby (Maguire), he's an old friend and (Jake) Gyllenhaal, who I got to know during the Brokeback and Capote days, you know with doing the Oscar circuits and stuff. That, Sam Shepard and Natalie Portman, who I've had a crush on for I don't know how long. She's beautiful and talented and smart and really precious, truth be told. She's a special girl and it was a dream job. It was hard, emotionally, in a lot of different ways. Brad Renfro passed and I thought about Heath (Ledger) passing, literally minutes before they shot my big close-up when I'm debriefing Toby. It was a tough thing just to keep it together and try to act and to have all this new dialogue that Jim, Toby and myself came up with. But I have high hopes for it. It's an incredible script and it's based off a Danish film, which I've heard is amazing. I haven't had a chance to see it.'

'Everybody put their heart and soul into it and I cried my eyes out on more than one occasion, just doing military research and all this stuff. Yeah, it definitely deserves and we definitely put our heart into it.' More here.


Includes pictures from IHJ and here.