Source Code - the first five minutes, new stills and more interviews with Jake Gyllenhaal from SXSW

Source Code may have left SXSW but there's still plenty to catch up with. First off, nothing makes me smile quite like seeing Jake Gyllenhaal on a red carpet - he's so good at it.



There are also a couple more video interviews with Jake, including one from a journalist from Wales, Cat, who wins brownie points from me because she wanted to get the word 'stonking' into her interview. If you head over to ManMadeMovies, they have Cat's interview with Duncan.




So far so good, but this video below is so spoilery it's got spoilers bursting out of the spoilers. It's the first five minutes of Source Code from Yahoo. I have no intention of watching it til I've seen the film so please don't discuss it unless I've got my fingers in my ears.

Duncan and Rodene have been blogging about their weekend and have included the picture from my post yesterday that they were laughing about on Twitter last night! I think you can tell which one. Duncan mentions his and Jake's funny moments with Paul Ruebens - aka Pee-wee Herman - and Reubens has been talking to The Playlist about Nailed. He has some lovely things to say about Jake and Jessica Biel:


'I would go home every single night in awe of both leads in the movie, I just could not believe what they were doing. As an actor, what they’re doing is very, very complicated and complex. It’s really hard to pull off what they did. You have to be effortless, but it’s really hard to do,” Reubens said. “And I’ve never seen anybody be so successful with something that complicated [as Gyllenhaal was]. And Jessica Biel is literally—I hate this word, but I can’t think of another word to use—is like a revelation. She’s so incredibly good in the movie, and again, no one’s ever seen her do anything like this… This is like an ingenue. It’s almost like Dorothy in ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’”'



There is a new interview in Toro magazine and, interestingly, Jake reveals that they spent two years looking for a director for Source Code before they knew that Duncan was the one. Jake talks about working on big and small movies and compares working with Duncan to working with Ang Lee:



'And then patience, which is, to me, one of the most amazing qualities I saw from all of the people I’ve worked with. I find a lot of similarities between Ang Lee and Duncan Jones. In personality, in interpretation of scenes, in the ability to let actors really encompass a world and feel empowered but at the same time have total control over the story that they’re telling. It’s almost like a magician. You feel like you’re creating the thing that’s happening, and in some ways you’re helping it be created, but ultimately there is a true wizard there. Personality-wise, Duncan is very quiet and sort of soft spoken, very introverted, very similar to Ang. When I met him, it was strange, my instinct connected to a similar thing when I met Ang.'



'In terms of bigger and smaller films, it’s a testament to the fact that any movie can be any size. They can grow, they can shrink…they become what they become when they are put out into the world. What matters to me is that there’s a human connection to the situation that any character is in. Something real that they’re struggling with. Ultimately, what are they really trying to find? Or, as an actor, why do the movie? Sometimes, when a film gets too large you lose perspective on the sort of smaller aspects of a character, or to a human connection. With Brokeback, Jarhead and Zodiac, these movies always had a human undertone to them. With Source Code, it’s in a similar vein. You go back to the human story even when you’re entertained; you go back to the “why” every time.'


And finally...

There's a chance that I may be having a little adventure tomorrow, so watch this space!


Source Code stills from Yahoo (thanks to Eureka for the heads up!).