[Updated Update] Source Code Jake! Making up time at the Medical Center... Jake Gyllenhaal - Wet 'n' Wild for Esquire

You know that phrase about buses? This is one of those days. Coming Soon has a picture from Source Code today showing Jake looking suitably scifi. Fab!


On with the update to the post... ahem.

Update: Everyone's favourite Medical Center in Beverly Hills let out a big sigh of relief today - Jake Gyllenhaal was back, making up for lost time (and shifts) after months away. Like the shoes, Jake! Source.





On with the post!

Dressed in Armani, and leaping from puddle to puddle, Jake Gyllenhaal takes pride of place in the December issue of Esquire UK. In addition to providing invaluable advice on 'How to do a sex scene' (something to do with letting it all hang out), Jake talks about his theatrical debut in London's West End, his love for women, and where he is in his life now in terms of the roles he chooses and the people he works with. There are also golden words for Brokeback: 'This movie that Annie and I made was spawned from that. Love and Other Drugs is the child of Brokeback Mountain.' Many thanks to IHJ for the scans. The magazine hits the UK shelves tomorrow. Choice quotes below.



'We struck gold with that film [Brokeback Mountain]. That movie continues to last, and a large part of that has to do with how extraordinary Heath Ledger was, and what an extraordinary force he was as an actor. If he were still alive everybody would be clamouring to work with him. I just feel honoured to have worked with him and to have called him a friend. This movie that Annie and I made was spawned from that. Love and Other Drugs is the child of Brokeback Mountain. It really is. That's how it feels to me. I'm desperate to work with Michelle Williams again. That's what I think is so incredible about having had the luck to have lasted in this business so far. It's like Seth Rogen was in Donnie Darko. He had half a scene and now he's this huge star. You know what I mean. It's so cool.'


'When I first read the script [of Love and Other Drugs], I just knew, I gotta get this, I gotta get this one. I gotta get in on it. I just loved it.'

'You've got to find where the heart of the movie is. It's not an issue of ego with me. I just want to be in movies that move people. You have to know where the strength is and move towards it. Any successful person in any business, in any profession, moves towards what works. And if you deny what works because of your own ego, you're finished.'


'When I was much younger I definitely enjoyed the attention that came from it [acting] - if I think about the psychological aspect. And then I love, I love the act of storytelling, the feeling of making words your own, having something move through you. It brings me great joy. It's a wonderful, wonderful feeling.'


'Now is the time in my life and my career to be able to make mistakes. I think, creatively, mistakes should be made, lessons should be learned. I like to go after things are a bit less what people would expect from me. Love and Other Drugs feels like a turning point for me. Once you have an experience like we had on that movie, you long for it again and everything pales in comparison. I found that with Duncan [Jones] on Source Code - he allows the actor to have that. I'm at a very wonderful transition right now - deciding what I want to do next, and I don't know what that is.'


'It is funny. Sex should be. In this film, Annie and I will make you feel awkward.'

'There were days when I would be in a crap mood. I'd come to the set and something had happened or I was dealing with normal life issues, and I'd have to seduce some nurse in a scene. I would have loved to be doing a scene where I was smashing my head against the wall. But the truth is I had to convince a nurse to let me into her office. And to me, finding that in yourself during those moments, too, takes a certain amount of skill.' This isn't the first time we've heard Jake talk this way. It's interesting how Jake has brought this up again.



Many thanks to IHJ.