Jake Gyllenhaal finishes off Source Code and talks about Anne Hathaway -'It's all about rhythm' - and comedy with Robert Downey Jr

This may well turn out to be Love and Other Drugs week but let us not forget Source Code. Thanks to director Duncan Jones we learn that work still continues on the film and today Jake Gyllenhaal has been in the studio, possibly putting his last touches to the film. 'Getting close to finishing Source Code now... Hopefully we are doing the last chunk of ADR [automated dialogue replacement] with Jake today. Effects keep rolling in.' Next stop, our cinema screens. I cannot wait. Many thanks for the headsup!


Jake's Esquire UK hits the British newsagents on Thursday - I have this on excellent authority: my own local newsagent. In the meantime, PoPSugar has given us a glimpse of some of the pictures along with extracts of the interview. I'm going to stick my neck out and say that these photos are... odd. If I didn't know better I'd say the photographer was given half an hour and there was a handy puddle nearby.


Some snippets thanks to PoPSugar: "We [Jake and Anne] talked about what we thought was sexy, about what were the things that interested us, and through the discussion became pretty intimate with each other." "Annie and I had already had sex on film (in Brokeback Mountain). There’s something about the way Annie and I both work which is inherently very musical. It's all about rhythm. There's a rhythm to writing, there's a rhythm to sports, there's a rhythm to sex." "Annie, because as a woman I think it's harder. She said at one point, 'Well, we're both topless and we both show our butts.' And I was like, 'Hmm, but it's a little different for you.'"


On Maggie: "I admire her and continue to admire her. That might play into the reason I don't have much of a problem letting the women I've worked with shine. I love women."And his friendship with Annie: "I feel like she's a comrade. The thing about Anne is that she develops her characters in absolute detail. To the point where she went down to the Lower East Side to buy fluorescent bras for her character. I knew Annie could f**king kill it." "I was naked a lot in the movie. I was naked in more of it than was even in the final cut. A director's cut? I don't even know how that would be rated."

'On where he is most at ease: "I think comedy. That's why I loved working with Robert Downey Jr (on Zodiac). He and I had this similar kind of working. His energy is a bit more frenetic than but in terms of work, we meshed."'


Orange Wednesday's Rising Star

Orange Wednesday is a bit of an institution in the UK. If you're on the Orange network you can text a number and you get two cinema tickets for the price of one on a Wednesday. It also nominates a Rising Star for the BAFTAs. I'm delighted to say that Peter Sarsgaard is on the jury this year. He is in London at the moment while Maggie films Hysteria and it's wonderful that he's doing such good work for young cinema while he's here.


You can see Peter's interview here:



Pictures from links with thanks.