Updated: Jake Gyllenhaal in EW- 'He's a naughty boy. With abs.' - And lots more PoP 'With crazy, wild abandon I jumped!'

[Update:] There's a certain film coming out in May and to mark the occasion Entertainment Weekly has a feature on Prince of Persia, including a Q&A with Jake Gyllenhaal who would be glad to do PoP 2 if you give him a plate of protein. And we have some great words from Mike Newell about Jake: 'He's like a little Lord of Misrule... It's great to have a hero who doesn't take himself too seriously, and Jake's got a tremendous cheekiness to him. He's a naughty boy. With abs.' Many thanks to BBMISwear :-)



It might be Friday but today we got the fifth Prince of Persia Thursday question with Jake Gyllenhaal telling us what it was like when he received the offer of playing Dastan. 'I was super excited - I knew what a huge undertaking it was going to be and how much time I would I would have to devote to it but I was just so excited.' You can see the video here (recorded on that super dope set with gold elephants) and below.



With thanks to BBMISwear, who (the evidence suggests) must be a secret avid gamer, we have a scan from the brand new edition of Gameinformer magazine. Jake says about spending time with PoP pop Jordan Mechner: 'It was cool, because the best day was when Jordan came on set and said, 'This is awesome'. Everytime he would see stuff, he'd say. This is my dream.'


And on playing the game: 'I got really into it - too into it, actually. They would call me to set and I'd say 'Just give me one second, I need to finish this!' I don't want to get too sucked into it, because who knows what will happen. But, yeah, I'm definitely into it.'


We also have some delicious new images from two of the veritable library of PoP books that we will be filling our shelves with this summer: We Make Our Own Destiny and Movie Storybook. There are some stunners here (especially the guy with the big blue eyes, the bursting muscles, the leather straps and the flying scarves).



Jake also models here the perfect outfits to wear just in case you have a run in with a volcanic ash cloud.





The Afterword to Destiny - written by Jake himself - has his personal and very endearing take on what it was like to make that big leap on Day 1. 'It's high'.



We have a Prince of Persia group photo - I do apologise for the girl picking her nose.


I know Jake likes to eat adventurously but peacock may be a step too far... But he has the outfit for it. And the knife to cut it too.



Maggie, out and about last night, had this to say about PoP: 'That will probably be a big deal. I hear it's really great — it's really funny and kind of smart. I hear it has a little Indiana Jones quality to it. I have not seen it, but I hear it's great!"



Incidentally, the feisty Princess of Persia, Gemma Arterton, is on Jonathan Ross tonight...



Pictures from Disney. Many thanks to IHJ and BBMISwear for the scans! And it's not even May yet...