Jake Gyllenhaal talks about Moon, a lovestruck Duncan Jones and getting back on the stage

We have a great new interview with Jake Gyllenhaal from New Zealand. with that I mean 'new' in the sense of newly released but judging by Jake's Hairometer, the interview was recorded at the same time as most of the other video chats. But there are a couple of things I particularly like about this one, aside from the initial flirtiness with the 'best dressed' interviewer, and that is Jake's comments about his initial meeting with Duncan Jones about the Source Code script. Apparently, Duncan had just met his girlfriend and he was too in love to want to stop around and chat. It's the way Jake tells it so watch the video.


Jake is also reminded about his time on stage in London for This is Your Youth and he says that he is searching for the right project because on stage is where he feels 'most comfortable'. It's interesting but not surprising to hear Jake describe Duncan's directing technique as theatrical as I think it does show in some of SOurce Code's scenes - the fact that each source code was filmed as one as well as the nature of the sets. This interview also gives Jake another chance to praise Duncan's work on Moon and that of its star, Sam Rockwell.


Tweets can be as illuminating as they can be confusing. Today is a case in point. There have been at least two sightings of Jake today - one at the Sunday Farmers' Market in Hollywood and another in Hawaii. One of the two gains added authenticity because it involves food. Although the second would have the advantage of beach clobber.


And finally...

Completely off topic but I'm off to a special screening of the new Pirates of Caribbean film tomorrow. It's almost a year to the day since the similar Prince of Persia screening I went to. Very exciting! Big thanks to Blogomatic3000 and Disney! This could be quite a week...

Return of the Beanie - Jake Gyllenhaal in NYC and People's Choice Awards tonight!

There was a time when the word 'Beanie' could strike fear and horror into the heart and mind of a Gyllenhaalic. Back in 2008, Jake Gyllenhaal was barely seen without a Beanie glued to his head. At first we chuckled and laughed but then, as the weeks and months passed, we came to realise that this was no joking matter and we despaired that we would ever set eyes on Jake's head again. But then, with the cropping of the Prince of Persia locks in 2009, the Beanie was cast off and we could breathe easy again. However...


On 2 January, Jake attended the closing gala of Fela! on Broadway and, I'm afraid to say my friends, the Beanie was back. And not only that. Jake combined said Beanie with an old favourite Beanie Accompaniment, the 66 Jacket, a combo not seen since London back in October 2008. I take no responsibility for the picture below, you view it at your own risk.


Fortunately, other pictures have surfaced, thanks to IHJ, of Jake's visit to the The Sloan-Kettering Cancer Hospital where he spent time on the children's ward on 27 December. On this occasion Jake modelled a sensational parker jacket complete with kangaroo pouch. There are times when the cold weather really suits Jake.



Tonight the People's Choice Awards take place in Los Angeles and, while there's little sign that Jake Gyllenhaal has left the east coast to attend, we can still hope that Jake wins some love for his Dastan.

And finally...

Do check out part 2 of an interview with Duncan Jones and Gavin Rothery over at ManMadeMovies. This interview dates from a marvellous night at the BFI, when I got to meet Duncan and enjoy the outstanding panel. I'm looking forward to the Duncan-Source Code interviews...


Pictures from IHJ and WDW.

WDW meets Duncan Jones!

I am a very lucky WDW - over the years I've met a fair few of the people involved in Jake Gyllenhaal's career, not least Jake Gyllenhaal himself! But tonight I was thrilled to meet Duncan Jones who has impressed audiences and critics alike with the originality and vision that makes up Moon.


Won over, not surprisingly, Jake has been filming Source Code with Duncan, a movie that Jake has described as 'mind blowing' more than once. Tonight, in the same theatre where I saw David Fincher in January 2009, I was lucky enough to see Jake's newest director and, afterwards, so pleased to be able to tell him how much I was looking forward to Source Code. I managed, somewhat illicitly, to film the Q&A and so that will follow but, in the meantime, here is Duncan and my very lovely autograph - my very own Gerty. Thank you Duncan for coming back to London!


Incidentally, and off topically, London was looking beautiful this evening in the late summer sun.


Pictures from WDW.

New still from Brothers, a new girl for Love and Other Drugs and Moon Talks

The bad news is that Brothers and Jake Gyllenhaal will not be getting the Toronto treatment this September, with Peter Sarsgaard being our sole representative at the festival. While one may have to conclude that, for whatever reason, Jim Sheridan has decided not to use festivals for Brothers, the door for London's October Film Festival is still open, with the lineup to be announced on 9 September. In the meantime, there is another new still from Brothers to enjoy. This image was used in Entertainment Weekly but now we can have a better look.


The cast of Love and Other Drugs is growing. Variety has announced that Judy Greer (27 Dresses) will feature in the movie as a pharmaceutical company trainee instructor.


As to where Jake is at the moment, a hint comes from a tweet by Duncan Jones, the director of the highly recommended indie movie Moon, who is currently in LA. In what sounds like yesterday: 'Also had a painfully early breakfast meeting with Jake Gylenhall [ahem]. A proper, truly lovely gent! Very much want to work with him.' The Moon theme continues...

Pictures from Movieset.

[Updated] Defy the Future! Prince of Persia posters released! And Jake Gyllenhaal over the moon...

Empire has today published the first two posters for the Prince of Persia, featuring a stunning, powerful Jake Gyllenhaal as the prince and, on the other poster, Gemma Arterton as the feisty Tamina. We are told to expect more in the September issue of Empire, plus a set visit report.



Meanwhile, more from EW via ET.


Update: ComingSoon now has the Ben Kingsley poster - and it's not a little scary...


On with the moon post!

As we reflect on the fortieth anniversary of the moon landing, one is reminded yet again of those immortal and legendary few words, taught in every school across the land: 'What would have happened if Neil Armstrong had gone all the way to the moon and then never stepped on the surface?' (Jimmy Livingston's Dad). Imagine it, indeed. If it had not been for the events of July 20 1969, we may not now be having to endure the wait to see if Doug Liman really will require Jake Gyllenhaal to pick up where Armstrong left off and colonise the moon.


As night follows day, the moon pops up with appropriate regularity in Jake's career, and it is only a matter of time before we see him fully decked out in a spacesuit and in a spaceship (aliens optional). At one point, Jake's name was one of those bandied around to play the great man, Neil Armstrong, himself. Jake has many qualifications to play a space role, as befitting an actor who once said that he wanted to be an astronaut (as well as a policeman and fireman) until the age of 12 (when he decided he wanted to be a bird instead - note the air theme).


Jake has persistently chosen films solely for their lunar names - Moonlight Mile and Unnamed Moon Project, to name but two.


Jake has been finetuning his spacelook over the years - beginning with a makeshift but very bouncy bubble suit. Indeed, when wearing the bubble, Jimmy was asked if he was some kind of astronaut: 'No, I'm some kind of bubble boy', he replied.


Even in early medieval Persia, Jake refuses to do away with his moonboots.


Jake is not afraid of venturing down wormholes and through cracks in the spacetime continuum, having gained considerable experience of time travel as Donnie Darko.


Donnie Darko also prepared Jake for those moments when one might encounter, unexpectedly, giant talking alien rabbits.


Jake has demonstrated calmness and remarkable coolness in the event of sudden gravity loss.


Despite protestations of being no good at mathematics or nuclear physics or quantum mechanics or dinosaur anatomy, Jake has shown that he's very handy to have around when you need a rocket in a hurry.


In readiness for the the One Small Step, Jake has practised planting the flag on slagheaps.


Includes pictures from links, IHJ and Jake Gyllenhaal's I Wanna be an Astronaut scrapbook.