[Updated update] Jake Gyllenhaal, 'singing all over these interviews' and new pictures of Jake shopping in LA yesterday (2 June) and at the gym today

[Updated update] Demonstrating once again, how much Jake is like a much-longed for bus, I'm updating the post once more with pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal leaving the gym today (3 June) after giving his hair - and abs, perhaps - a good workout. Source.



[Updated - already] Jake Gyllenhaal was seen out and about shopping in LA yesterday where he took a moment to text me to see if I wanted ice-cream or custard with my poached pear. Source.



It's getting late this evening - warm sunshine dragged me up a prehistoric hillfort and there's nothing like a vigorous walk and a pint of best bitter in a thatched pub to make one sleepy. There's only one thing for it - I need Jake Gyllenhaal to sing to me. And not about karete hedgehogs this time. Kind of Jake to oblige.



Jake has been interviewed for Ask Men and you'll be pleased to hear he's talking about cadences and pianos again: 'I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you’re playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place and you’re enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody. You know I love that type of music just as much as the complicated introverted complicated stuff. This happens to be a whole lot of really fun major chords for kids and families and everyone. I should be singing my answer!'


Abs: 'I don’t know if I have enough time to go into specifically how much they mean to me. But they make me who I am. Without them, I don’t know. At awards shows, I will always thank them, that and the hair. I think I’m going to make my hair jealous in the movie, anything about my abs. If you don’t mind, I would like to include my hair in this comment and so I’d like to say my abs have been a little upset actually that they have been covered by suits and shirts for most of the publicity of this movie so without them, thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about them. I don’t know where I would be without them.'


'The question I always get is how I got into shape. That seems to be from photographs and the trailer which is all they have to go on at this point. It’s interesting to them, seeing me in a different light. But what I would want people to know about the movie -- it's really important to say -- is that I know guys are interested in the movie, but kids! I cannot wait. All over the world at premieres, wherever there was a child, to see their response after was… [huge smile]. I screened the movie for my cousins and family the other day. My cousins were jumping off the seats! They’re anywhere from 6 to 14, and they were terrifying their parents, but jumping off reasonable heights, jumping and fighting, and that’s what I felt like when I saw Indiana Jones when I was a kid. That’s what I want people to know, people ask me if they can take their kids and if it’s too dangerous? And I’m like: "this movie was made for kids, for family." I can tell everybody now, you can take your kids.'



Let's end with another song - the Gyllenhaal song: 'My thoughts on my last name are that it’s already complicated for people and I don’t want to complicate it anymore. I will clear it up. The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It’s spelled with two l’s, two a’s. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It’s a Swedish name. It’s a family heirloom set to music. I’m singing all over these interviews, aren’t I?'


Thanks to Monica for the heads up on this Brazilian video interview. Here Jake tells us what Prince of Persia is all about - a monkey... I knew that. But can it sing?

Pictures from Screencrave.