Jake on the Box: TV schedule updated and Jake Gyllenhaal would follow Duncan Jones anywhere (including on Twitter)

The SXSW Source Code adventure may be over but there are still two weeks left until the film premieres on 1 April and that can mean only one thing: more publicity to look forward to and more Jake Gyllenhaal on the little screen. With thanks to BBMISwear for keeping an eye on the listings for me, here is an update on what we can expect over the coming days. As usual I will add a Jake On The Box feature on the front page.

23 March: Jimmy Kimmel

28 March: Conan O'Brien

31 March: Regis and Kelly

You can bet there will be more, especially those NYC breakfast shows. If you hear of anything do please let me know so that I can update the Jake schedule.


Unfortunately, we might not get more of Jake and Duncan Jones together, which is a real shame as these two could do comedy together. In this video interview with Young Hollywood, we not only see a new tablet get a plug (look at how Jake's eyes light up), we also hear why Duncan wanted to work with Jake - 'he's a hunk'. And I can definitely empathise with an interviewer who says she sees cartoon hearts when she looks at Jake. Good to hear some twitter talk too. But Jake would not only follow Duncan (@manmademoon) on twitter, he'd follow him anywhere.



Do also check out this interview with Duncan Jones by Mark Walters.



There is another interview with Jake and Duncan but before I give you the link I want to stress that it has a big spoiler in it (thanks to Jake!) and I would advise you wait before reading it in its entirety. I'll give some excerpts below but if you don't mind having Jake spoil the plot, go ahead and read it here. But please be warned. I wouldn't have wanted to read this before I saw the film. The bits below are completely safe!


Duncan: 'This was the world premiere. The first time we had shown it to people who weren't involved in the making of the movie. It was terrifying for me. I was very excited and anxious as to what the crowd's reaction was going to be. But we worked hard on it and surrounded ourselves with really, really good people. Obviously Jake and Michelle [Monaghan] plus Vera Farmiga and Jeffrey Wright. The people behind the camera as well. These are all amazing people.'

'Q: I loved the music in the film... JG: Oh this is crazy, we have to tell you this. DJ: This is absolutely true. The guy who composed the music's name is Chris Bacon... and his middle initial is P. Chris P. Bacon. He is crispy bacon! That is his name. We just found that out and got a good laugh out of that. But it's true, he was fantastic.'


The script: 'JG: Well I think there are tendencies with the movie where a director can go one way with it. It can be just a thriller or it could be something more psychological or just stay character driven but mostly I think it was finding something who'd be able to understand the human things going on in the story as well as the visuals. I just knew it needed a particular hand and when I saw MOON, I was so blown away by it - Duncan, after these interviews you're going to hear how much I kiss your ass - that I thought it needed someone exactly like Duncan. We had met about some general things, like he has a movie that he's making and he wanted me to star in-- DJ: --which you had to reject (laughs) JG: So I ended up telling him there was this script we could check out and I thought he would never do it and he ended up saying he wanted to do it right away.'



Working in the pod and on the train: 'JG: It was really theatrical actually. It was the greatest part about performing it. We would do takes in the pod that were seven minutes long. We'd always go through an entire take and if we still had film in the mag - well we shot on HD so if we still had "data" on the hard drive, we'd just reset and go right back into it. I'd play it almost like we were on a stage, in a way. The same thing goes with the train. With the exception of certain variations, I work in a way where I like to play everything through and he always allowed that to happen.'


'DJ: It's hard enough for an actor to know their lines, remember their marks and all the technical side of acting and then break up what they're doing into tiny, little pieces? I think that's absurd. You need to let an actor get into it and feel it. If you start breaking it up into sections, you're never going to get as natural or as invested as performance.'


Includes pictures from IHJ.