Jake Gyllenhaal interviewed in IN magazine, Source Code timing... And a UK release date for the DVD

With many thanks to Mrs JG, today we have scans and a translation of Jake Gyllenhaal's appearance in Germany's IN Magazine this month. The interviewer seems to have an attention to detail (not to mention an exuberance) when it comes to Jake, with his bare elbows, his dimples, his water blue eyes and quizzical eyebrows. Interviewed in Germany while on the Source Code tour, it also gave Jake an opportunity to indulge in one of his passions when he's in Europe - talking about jetlag. So here is the interview 'Sometimes my sister is a pain in the neck', which beings with a Jakeism: 'Some say your twenties are like dog years. One year for seven. I am curious what my thirties will hold for me. Hopefully nine lives like a cat."


'Curiously he pokes his head through the door gap and smiles whimsically. As a greeting for the interview Jake Gyllenhaal aspirates a long "Heeeyyy". Charming, confident, sexy. In a way only a Hollywood heart-throb can do. Full of verve he opens the door to the suite at the "Hotel de Rome" and immediately drops into one of the many soft armchairs. "I have just been to Italy, now I am in Berlin. Somehow that feels inhumane" the 30 year old sighs and pushes the sleeves of his grey wool sweater up. Let get to work!'

'"I very often wake up in the middle of the night and for a split second I don't know what country I am in," he says and shyly runs his hand over his 5 o'clock shadow. Small dimples emerge on his cheeks making him look way younger than he really is. "I am 30 now. Things aren't as easy anymore and the jetlag becomes noticeable."'

'"In the movie I get blown up 8 times before I resolve to ask a girl for a cup of coffee." Jake murmurs and considers briefly: "When you ask a woman for a date sometimes that does feel like you have to run through a mine field." Does the keen movie hero turn into a sweet softie with the ladies? He runs his hand through his short dark hair and lifts his eyebrow quizzically: "It's just important for me to immediately feel comfortable with a woman." Has his sister Maggie (33) done a "girlfriend test" before? After all the actress has been seen on and off with Jakes exes.'


'He comes closer. "I wanna be honest now. I now that's not too common in a situation like this one." he announces and rests his bare elbow upon the fine tablecloth. A secret? Jake whispers: "Sometimes my mother and my sister are a pain in the neck." Do Maggie and mom Naomi Foner (65) interfere with the love life of the youngest Gyllenhaal or so? No! "We are simply a family. That's enough." the movie star points out and shrugs his broad shoulders a bit perplexed. For a long time Jake and Maggie had a head-to-head race. "She had a few years to herself before I appeared on the scene." he says and smiles. "I however have been with her my entire life." Love between siblings lasts forever. Jake takes a deep breath: "We had to realize at some point that I would never get the parts that she does. For one simple reason: she is my sister."'

'He rolls the last word over his tongue demonstratively slowly and has to laugh at his own joke. All of a sudden the actor jumps out of his seat and roams through the room like somethings displeasing him. He rolls his water blue eyes. "Oh, I regret many things in life but each of my regrets has made me into who I am today. Therefore I would not want to change anything. And I try to take as little as possible seriously. He winks knowingly and says goodbye with a rascal smile - and a long dragged "Byyyeee!"'

Watch it


When you only have eight minutes to save the world, as Colter knew only too well in Source Code, there is something that you need above all else - a good watch. With thanks to BBMISwear for this scan from Hollywood Reporter, there is a little about Colter's watch from the film's production designer.

Following on from news of the release of the Source Code dvd in the US (26 July), we now have the date for the UK release and it's 15 August.

And finally...

I am now wrapping up my work on X-Men: First Class. The interview with director Matthew Vaughn is now up on Blogomatic3000, where it joins my full review of this most excellent film. More to come. Many thanks to my friend Andrew for the poster below!

LumberJake, CheeseCake Jake, LoveFilm LoveJake and a WDW Filmset Interlude

I hope you're sitting comfortably - we have a lot to get through this evening so no time for slacking, let's get on with it. First off, Jake Gyllenhaal is in New York City today and is he shaven? No. Is he on a train? Yes. 'I just rode the 1 train with Jake Gyllenhaal. Sporting a lumberjack beard.' I think from on, as long as the Face Pet lives, he shall be known as LumberJake. More on The Beard later in the post.


Love and Other Drugs draws slightly nearer and along with it comes more tales of its creation in The Pitt (aka Pittsburgh). Ms Blair recalled this today about her experience on the set of LAOD: '"In the world of extras, it was a step up," she said. She and another woman spent a day with a photographer taking Polaroid photos and wearing early 1990s clothing. She doesn't know where the pictures will be used, but she guessed they could appear as decorations in Ms. Hathaway's apartment. Later, she was an extra in a scene in a North Side cafe, and she spent the entire day sitting near Mr. Gyllenhaal and Ms. Hathaway. That was exciting, but the highlight, she said, was splitting a piece of cheesecake with Mr. Gyllenhaal at a meal that day for the cast and crew. "If nothing comes of it -- if you don't even see me in the movie -- it's totally worth it to have a chance like that," she said.' Source.


At this point I have two points to make - 1) I don't like cheesecake at all but 2) Jake, if you ever need anyone to share a cheesecake with I am willing to make the huge sacrifice of eating as much of it as you don't want because, as a Gyllenhaalic, I am selfless. But just don't offer me an artichoke. I have to draw the line somewhere.


LoveFilm LoveJake

LoveFilm have produced their top ten of Jake and it makes for some interesting reading and you may want to disagree with the choices - or omissions. The ten listed are: City Slickers, Donnie Darko, The Good Girl, The Day After Tomorrow, Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead, Zodiac, Rendition, Brothers, Prince of Persia. Full details here.


Clearly, it is impossible to confine Jake's best movies to a top ten list - and this problem is only going to get worse - BUT, if you have to have a top ten, should it include City Slickers at the cost of Moonlight Mile? And what about October Sky? And where's Bubble Boy and I can hear some people lamenting the rejection of Piilot. There is only one thing for it - don't confine Jake Gyllenhaal to a Top Ten. I'm sure I read that once in a medieval legal scroll.

Thank you to everyone who tweeted this to me today - it's great that you were thinking of me!


THE POLL

The Should Jake Shave poll is closed and the results are in! Please pardon me for a moment while I put on the white coat, protective feet coverings, laser pointy thing and flipchart...

178 people voted - a lot more people than are usually polled for anti-wrinkle cream and catfood surveys as you'll agree. This may come as a surprise to you but it seems most people want the Face Pet ritually slaughtered. To be scientific, 124 people or 69%. This actually came as a surprise to me. I thought it would be slightly higher - 99.9% for example. But 40 people, a whapping great 22% said no, don't shave, Jake!


Obviously, this group requires more detailed study and then it may be revealed that they all hail from the Cult of the Beard and live in the wilds and devour berries and squirrels and wear a belt of leaves around their nether regions. Instead of speaking with voices as we know them they 'caw caw' through the woods and birds and butterflies flock to them as one of their own.


4 voters (2%) cannot decide. Admittedly, if one has to have a beard it could be a lot worse as can be seen here.

An admirable 5% (or 10 voters) haven't even noticed that LumberJake has a beard. This is either a very good thing or a very bad thing, depending on their glasses subscription.


Jake has until Saturday to shave for his New Yorker on stage interview in NYC. He knows our thoughts, now there is nothing to do but wait. At some time the winds will drop, the waves will calm and the moon will shine through unbroken cloud. That time will come, my friends, and then we will look back on the Face Pet Epoch with the wisdom of advancing years and know that we had to go through it to get through to the other shaven side. And we will laugh and we will sing.


Right! That's the preamble over - on with the post!

You might think that most movies are filmed in Hollywood or Pittsburgh - but you would not be correct. Oxford is not just boatraces and gown-wearing students chucking flour, eggs and squid over other gown-wearing students. It has more filmcrews than you can shake a tourist at. I once saw Brad Pitt when I popped out for a sandwich. This week it became apparent that a certain movie may have moved in to town, X-Men - turning back the clocks by 50 years. It was something to do with the cranes, the big white trucks, the security, the catering lorries, the cameras and lights and the radio reports that gave it away. Bleeding Cool had a lot of success yesterday. I got to see them clear up - obviously a vital stage of the shoot.


And so, not having had any success there I went round a few corners, past a few more beautiful old buildings, and suddenly I was on another filmset. This time, Oxford had gone back in time by about 40 years and there was the beautiful, extremely talented and feisty Duffy (in changing coats) shooting her latest video. Having seen An Education film in Oxford it was rather nice seeing its theme singer in the town as well. It all makes a change from Harry Potter and murder mysteries.



Pictures from IHJ and WDW.