[Update] Tributes to Jill Clayburgh as Love and Other Drugs moves on to NYC and more videos of Jake Gyllenhaal from the LA premiere

[Updated] Jill Clayburgh, the actress who plays Jake Gyllenhaal's mother in Lover and Other Drugs, died yesterday of Leukaemia. At the NYC press conference today, Jake paid tribute to the Oscar-nominated actress, Jake: 'When I said before about people who live their life, some people have lived it shorter than others, but I think Jill is one of those people, unfortunately, who didn’t have as much time as some. But I think it’s a testament to the fact that we worked together for two days … I heard [that she passed away] this morning. She was just amazing. I know my parents just recently went through a divorce, and my mother said to me that "An Unmarried Woman" was just such an incredible film for her to watch and helped her so much. I think the work that she [Jill Clayburgh] did, and the woman that she is and was, she was just incredible.'

'Did you know that she had leukemia before she died? Gyllenhaal: No. I think that was maybe part of it about her. Her living with that for as long as she did made her appreciate all of the things that she had. Someone like her [in her medical condition], working for two days on a movie like this, it was insane. She was just loving and open and an incredible actor to watch — and giving, even with the few lines that she had, which is a great irony.'


Anne: 'She and George [Segal, who plays Gyllenhaal’s father in "Love and Other Drugs"] set your character up so beautifully with their performances, because you understood the world from which [Jamie Randall] came, who he was raised by. I think both of their contributions to the film — I think I speak for all of us when I say our prayers and best wishes go out to Jill’s family.'

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I don't want to distract anyone from reading Lisa's amazing account of seeing Jake Gyllenhaal at the LA premiere on Thursday night, so, if you haven't read it, do check out the post below. However, it looks like the Love and Other Drugs publicity train has now moved on to New York City, with tweets that Jake, Anne Hathaway and Ed Zwick are in the city for a press day. This fits with the new photos today of Jake boarding a private plane. As we know from PoP, when it comes to moving around the world for film publicity, a private plane is the way to go.


[Update] You can read a lovely piece from Jeff Wells at the NYC Waldorf Astoria (18th floor) press conference here. Thanks to Monica for the heads up!


We have more videos from Thursday evening with no doubt more to come. And here are the introductions that Lisa photographed and saw from her hot seat on the front row.



Here is the interview from MovieWeb.



Anne 'told Access [Hollywood] she hopes the film’s adult themes won’t scare off viewers. ”[It’s] a lot racy, a lot racy, I keep talking to people who’ve seen the film I’m like, ‘Was it too sexy for you? You OK?’” she told Access. “I think it’s one of those [films] that you have to know someone really well to recommend it to them, but hopefully people wont hesitate to [see it.]”'



Jake spoke to ITN about his relationship with Anne: 'As a result of us being where we are with our successes and our failures and all the things creatively, we just came together in a really special way, in a very intimate way, that is rare.' You can see that video here.

There is another here from On The Red Carpet. '“We only had sex once in Brokeback Mountain and we have sex like 18 times in this movie,” laughed Gyllenhaal... It's racy but then I think it becomes about real intimacy and real love between two people.”' And we have more from PoPSugar.



Picture from IHJ and Hollywood Elsewhere.