Jake Gyllenhaal in conversation about his career - and on his way to the UK!

These are busy days for Jake Gyllenhaal, what with plays, movie promotion, hurricanes, elections, but this week he made time to sit down with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg for a full forty minutes, to discuss his career and his future choices. After a couple of years in which it appeared as if Jake was uncertain about how to develop his career, the doubt now seems gone and the drive is back. We're lucky to have it all on video. You can watch it at the end of this link or below.



Jake coming to the UK!

There is some good news for Jake's fans on this side of the pond - it looks like the busy play schedule is not going to stop Jake popping over for the Graham Norton Show for the release of End of Watch on 23 November. Hopefully, we'll have more details of that shortly.

Jake and the election

Meanwhile, you may have noticed that there was an election in the United States this week. We all know how important voting (and the Democrat cause) are to Jake. He took time out on Election Day to speak to Stephanie Miller on her radio show about his beliefs:

Martha's Vineyard Part I - Chilmark, Jake Gyllenhaal, Us and the Prez

Tropical storms, tropical depressions, non-tropical storms, nor'easters, all conspired to deliver "rain all over the place", floods, 12 foot waves, "tropical storm energy", 18 foot waves onto Martha's Vineyard. Along with Barack Obama, BBMISwear and I took the only course of action open to us and fled to the mainland and a fish dinner at Legal Seafood. Despite having to leave the island 12 hours earlier than we wished, there's not an inch of road on MV that we didn't explore. This post is all about one area of the island that is especially close to Jake Gyllenhaal - Chilmark. We loved it so much, I bought the hat.


Chilmark is not your typical town - a store, a community centre with basketball, the Chilmark Tavern (and estate agent and police station combined) and that's about it. The Chilmark Store, right next to the Tavern, is well known to all Jake's fans, but what we didn't know was how good the pizza was, how relaxing it was rocking in the chairs, listening to the film producer next to us discuss how he was taking a movie in November to New Mexico.






The Chilmark Road Race, run just this month, has left its mark - literally. The startline was easy to spot due to a line across the road with START written on it. Call me Einstein.




The end, by the town hall, was also notable because it was right next to Chris Fisher's Beetlebung Farm. The sign in the background indicates where you can buy organic veg and flowers from the farm. And tomatoes (ask BBMISwear about that). A few metres to the left is the Chilmark Community Centre where Jake and Brad Silberling (of Moonlight Mile) have played hoops. I doubt they did as well as BBMISwear who got the ball in the net everytime, even though she didn't have a ball.



We've never felt alone on the island.


Time to take a breather...


Pics from IHJ and WDW.

Congratulations America on Obama Day!

It's a big, big day! Congratulations, America, on your new President! I may be a Brit and it may not involve Jake Gyllenhaal but you can bet Jake's going to be smiling today along with the rest of us as we're all brought together, wherever and whoever we are, to celebrate something truly historic. Today, WDW is also a Barack Obama fansite!


Maggie is by all accounts celebrating in Washinton, with Peter, no doubt, but, even though Jake's not there (as far as we know), others we know and have talked about here have been seen having the time of their lives over there in the city with the big white buildings. Love to see Jamie Foxx with the man himself.






But there is some Jake news today. On 30 January, David Fincher will be celebrated at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and it seems that Jake has been confirmed as attending. While I definitely appreciate that both Jake and I will have had evenings with Fincher lately, it would have been good if they'd been at the same time, eh Jake?


Have a great day!

Source. Includes picture from IHJ.