Jake Gyllenhaal: 'Whatever I dreamed and hoped for in my career and life is not how it's gone in a lot of ways and I love that'

One is hesitant to do a second post on the day when we have new pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal with Atticus, but there is more and so this post will include some more pictures of Jake with Man's Best Friend, wearing Man's Best Jacket - and the trousers aren't bad either. The Brothers DVD may be in the post to me as we speak, but the film only gets its theatrical release in Australia (and Denmark) next week. This means another round of publicity, on a suitably low (nay, near non-existent) level, so typical of Brothers. But we have a brief interview with Jake and the odd soundbite. They come from Jake so their quirkiness and sparkle more than makes up for their brevity.


Frinstance: '"It's true, actors do this stuff: 'Oh, he's great — he pisses lemonade and he shits rainbows,"'. '"I don't believe any more I can make a movie when I don't care ... about the other people in the process," says the actor, whose father is a director, his mother a writer and sister is the Oscar-nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal. "I don't think I'm any good when I don't interact."'


'Once poised to take over from Maguire in the Spider-Man franchise, 29-year-old Gyllenhaal credits his on-screen brother for initiating a meaningful and professionally rich relationship when the pair decided to do the film. "We'd work out together, we'd play basketball together," Gyllenhaal says. "Not only is he a great actor, he's also a great producer in some ways. He's 100 per cent always involved."'


'"Working on a movie like Prince of Persia was awesome," he says. "It was really great fun to be like an action hero, jump around and run off walls and fight bad guys, have great quippy lines. Wearing half your clothes is always really fun."' Not just fun for Jake...


And a perfect soundbite to finish: 'Whatever I dreamed and hoped for in my career and life is not how it's gone in a lot of ways and I love that'. Source.


In another feature, Jim Sheridan talks about whether Oz audiences will watch Brothers and there is a little bit more from Jake: 'While Sheridan is satisfied with his Brothers - '"Not a lot of money has to be recovered, so people can do what they bloody well like." Regardless, the Irishman, who comes from a theatre background and insists "I don't know much about film", inspired memorable performances from his trio of stars... Gyllenhaal, too, revelled in the "group effort" to ensure the film realised its potential. "Jim just promised this intimate, honest process, without this desperate need for the result to be extraordinary from the beginning," Gyllenhaal says. "You know: 'We're going into this and we're going to be a family [in] a big f---ing mess.'"' Source.


In this Blink and you miss it video from the Oscars, Jake is asked about a type of role that has yet (thank heavens) come his way - that of superhero. 'I'd never pass up a superhero, man.'



I'm not going to be drinking lemonade again in a hurry... Corking pics from iPhotoLive via IHJ