[Updated] Jake Gyllenhaal in Men's Journal, the JG Risotto, working in the pod, and Chris Bacon on scoring Source Code

***My non-spoilery review of Source Code is now up on Bleeding Cool ***

After the excitement of the last few days, it's a pleasure to take a step back and catch up on what has been going on. And that includes Jake Gyllenhaal's appearance as Hollywood's fittest in the April issue of Men's Journal. With huge thanks to BBMISwear, here are the scans from the issue. As we have come to expect and adore, there are Gyllenisms including a remarkable history of that most revolting of organisms: The Artichoke. Click and they shall be embiggened.



Talking of fitness, Jake has been describing his experience of jumping out of a train for Source Code. It sounds like it was just as painful as one would expect jumping out of a train would be. The mystery is that Jake would expect it to be otherwise. 'I had to do a jump off of a train... I was like, 'Don't worry. I got it guys. I'm cool.' And then I injured myself. You see it in the movie when I jump off the train and then my legs go up and then I land on my shoulder. It was kind of an intense impact on my shoulder.'



And to continue the food motif, one might recall Jake's famous question to Mario Batali about why there 'is so much fear in risotto'. I don't know about you, but I'm been terrified of them ever since. But Hollywood and Dine has come up with the Jake Gyllenhaal Risotto, which aims to be everything Jake would want it to be - without the fear.

But back to Source Code... In this very interesting interview with Popular Mechanics, Jake talks a little about what it was like to act in the pod and in the train: 'What I loved about it was the sense of isolation. Duncan was always there with me. So even when I was talking to a green screen in that pod, I would always hear either Vera's voice or a variation of someone reading the lines to me. And sometimes we would do it without anybody reading it—I memorized their lines too, because you do these six-minute-long takes. That was really fun, because I could make any choice that I wanted. And then I also loved how confined and structured the train was. I loved shooting this movie, and Duncan made it so much fun and he made me feel so empowered. And he just wanted it weirder and weirder and weirder, and every time I could make it stranger, he just loved it. And that's my kind of guy.'



One of the elements of Source Code that most definitely stood out when I saw it was Chris Bacon's soundtrack. At Scorenotes you can listen to (and download) Chris talking about the challenges of reflecting the 8-minute cycle through music. Thanks to Eureka for the heads up!The album is available at the end of March and you can listen to little snippets here. There's a review of the soundtrack here, which describes it as 'required listening' and 'the first great score of 2011'.


Many thanks to BBMISwear for the scans.