Jake Gyllenhaal

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Seems Mr. Braunstein was the barista when Mr. Gyllenhaal and two young women entered the cozy restaurant. "He was dressed like a normal guy: T-shirt, jeans, boots," Ms. Siebert said, noting the actor made no attempt at the dark-glasses-and-hat disguise routine.' No hat? Excellent.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Yesterday, we had the first photo of Jake Gyllenhaal on the Pittsburgh set of Love and Other Drugs thanks to Talituna and now she's done it again! But this time it's even better - a video of Jake arriving on set and (I might be wrong but it looks like it) taking photos himself of those gathered t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) A report from Pittsburgh: 'The Jake Gyllenhaal-Anne Hathaway movie "Love and Other Drugs" continued production at a rented home in the East End. Less than a dozen people gathered to watch the film crew but the scenes were all being shot inside, out of view. Ellie Feibus, 22, who lives in a car...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, continues to fend off the same old questions about her brother: 'Q: Jake Gyllenhaal is your younger brother – do you have any sibling rivalry with him? M: I’m so bored with that question. I don’t feel competitive with him any more. Q You and Jake did Donnie Darko...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Meanwhile that lively little gal Anna Faris has recently briefly mentioned her experience of working in Brokeback Mountain: 'Q: I wanted to ask about a couple of directors you’ve worked with, first, Ang Lee with Brokeback Mountain. What was it like to be a part of that masterpiece? Anna Fa...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) It may be Friday, but for Jake Gyllenhaal it's a case of back to work to start filming Love and Other Drugs in Pittsburgh. It's already made the local Pitt News. 'Jake Gyllenhaal, Hank Azaria and about 300 other people will be on campus filming a romantic comedy today... Production crews arrived...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Other news IGN has released more pictures from the Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. These include images of Colin Farrell, Jude Law and Johnny Depp as well as Heath Ledger. Includes pictures from IHJ. Sunglasses modelled by Jake Gyllenhaal.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The crowd is on the edge of its seat. The tension mounts. Jake Gyllenhaal v Bruce Willis - who will win this clash of the titans? Against all odds, Jake goes for broke - he undoes a button. Peter can hardly stand to look.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake Gyllenhaal was on hand to distract Bruce Willis at the US Open Men's Final yesterday - a match which saw Juan Martin Del Potro beat Roger Federer. Is it possible that this is the haircut and look for Jake's Jamie in Love and Other Drugs? If so, then I am a very happy Gyllenhaalic indeed! He l...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) AfterElton today announced its new 50 Best Gay Movies and yet again Brokeback Mountain tops the list and yet again it is by a landslide. What particularly struck me about AfterElton's piece on the film is its assertion that Brokeback is as real a place as any and I don't just mean a cinematic l...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Rather coincidentally, Tweeters are suggesting that Maggie and Jake are indeed in New York together at the moment. One tweet has Jake, Maggie and Reese dining at Frannys in Brooklyn and another has Jake at Gorilla Coffee. Big thanks to a tweeter for actually getting a picture of Jake and Ree...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Here is what IGN says: 'A slice of light tears through the darkness, dissolving into grains of sand, blown away by the desert wind... A sweeping landscape of a far-off Persian city. A wind-beaten caravan making its way through the orange-lit desert. Dark, swirling clouds gather in the distanc...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) You will have noticed that this post is illustrated with photographs of Jake from Moonlight Mile. The blame for this can be placed firmly on the shoulders of the Beatles, who have taken over the world this week (even space). If it were not for money issues, we would have seen Joe and Bertie slow...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) But Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays Jack opposite Heath Ledger's Ennis, doesn't see the gay angle getting in the way of audiences appreciating "Brokeback Mountain." "Maybe I'm naive or something. I grew up in Los Angeles and that might make me naive," he says. "My two unofficial godparents are a...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake Gyllenhaal was out and about shopping in Hollywood yesterday (Friday 4 September), looking so fine no-one can keep their eyes off him, even the model posters. Notice how I'm not mentioning that Jake needs jeans that fit. Many thanks to IHJ for the new pictures.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) You can tell the holidays are over, even for Jake Gyllenhaal, as he resumes his shifts at the Beverly Hills Medical Center. Judging by the shorts and flipflops, I would have called it Dress Down Friday at the center, except it was Wednesday (2 September). The hair length suggests to me that Ja...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Well, I think for the Prince of Persia, I just practiced ass-kicking ... [Portman laughs] But I do think that it's the job of an artist to not just mimic but also empathize - and in that process of empathizing give people a little bit of a rest from what's going on in their lives. And I think that's on...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Update: Now that Jake Gyllenhaal has discovered that being photographed with employees of ice cream, frozen yogurt and ice establishments is a sure way of getting ice cream benefits, Jake's at it again. Pinkberry tweeted that Jake twirled into their Little Tokyo store in LA this weekend....

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Update: After what's been quite a while, it's great to have new pictures of Jake out and about. Jake and Reese were on Abbot Kinney Blvd in Venice Beach on Sunday,walking back from Intelligentsia where they purchased Red Stuff. A worrying development is the new hat. Thanks IHJ! You can see man...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) 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.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) PORTMAN: And so I’m an actor. GYLLENHAAL: There’s very good money in that—not a lot of skill required, but very good money. PORTMAN: [both laugh] I agree. Lucky. I mean, I can ride a bike, but I feel like most people can do that. GYLLENHAAL: You could be a bike messenger . . .'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Although these fabulous pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal and Chest enjoying themselves on Martha's Vineyard date to 7 August, I like to think of them as Jake's welcome to me as I arrive in the State that can't be Spelled. If that recent chest poll had shown these, Robert and the others would have l...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake Gyllenhaal may not have had a movie in the cinemas for a couple of very long years but it is good to see that he is still up there in Premiere's new list of The 40 Most Handsome Men in Hollywood Right Now. Jake's there at number 7, behind James Franco and that Robert person, with examples of hi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) If you have nowhere else to be next weekend, here's an idea, plucked randomly from thin air. How about loitering outside Nordstrom and Tiffany's in Pittsburgh, just in case Nancy Mosser Casting happens to show up looking for extras to cast in Love and Other Drugs. You never know... If you're a Ja...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) 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 Brot...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) JFG: Jake is an actor with real depth, he’s got a real complexity behind his eyes. Does this affect the kind of character you can write for him? And also how great his character arc can be? SK: For sure. Just the same way that you adjust a part to fit an actor’s vocal rhythms, you don’t want to write...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Over the years, we have grown accustomed to Jake Gyllenhaal protesting that he is not a mathematics man (Proof) or a rocket science man (October Sky) and that dinosaurs gave him a hard time at Columbia. Nevertheless, Jake's on tap knowledge of eastern religious philosophy, not to mention...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) As Jake Gyllenhaal continues to elude us, just like last August, I long to see him shine on another glorious red carpet, centre stage, the movie star. That time will come again (hopefully while we're still young enough to enjoy it). In the meantime, let us travel back through the mists and twi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Way back when, Kirsten Dunst said of Jake: 'Talent is such a turn-on. If he looked the way he does when and was a bad actor and not a nice person, I wouldn't be into him. He's just smart, thoughtful, goofy, sweet and not trying to be somebody he's not.'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake also put his foot down a couple of times when faced with some of his dialogue in The Day After Tomorrow: '"There were a couple of instances where I said, 'No way am I saying that line!' and they rewrote it. There won't be any subtitle saying, 'Sorry, these guys don't sound like real human be...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Another old interview tonight - this time, from the Erie Times back in 2001, it's the time of Donnie Darko and that ever relevant, always constant question of 'Donnie Darko? What's that about then?' While Jake Gyllenhaal makes it clear that no-one on set really had much of an idea, includi...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) A family that went to see the Dodgers play in LA the other week had the very pleasant bonus of having Jake Gyllenhaal sitting a few rows infront of them. Amazingly, and all power to them, they still managed to focus on the game. They kindly took a video and, when they weren't distracted by a batsm...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Noone ever said going to the moon was easy but last weekend Jake Gyllenhaal may have made one small step forward in Doug Liman's plan to colonise the moon by 2011 (maybe 2012). Below we see Jake (20:43.4 seconds) with fellow Chilmark racer Doug Liman (28:14.4) and Tamara Buchwald (32:17.4). One...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) On 3 August, Jake Gyllenhaal visited Reese on set in Philadelphia. The upside of that is we get to see a photo of Jake that's bigger than 2cm squared, the downside is a whole lot of mesh. But, mesh or no mesh, it's good to see Jake again and it gives us a chance to inspect those growing sideburns.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) All three of the principals -- Lee, Gyllenhaal and Ledger -- sought redemption in Brokeback. Lee's attempt to imbue 2002's The Hulk with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon artistry failed critically and financially. Ledger (A Knight's Tale) has said he deliberately tried to tank his career...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake Gyllenhaal is a man with a mission - to continue his Dining with Jake Good Food Guide by dining out at every restaurant in Philadelphia. Last night, Jake and Reese were seen eating with Paul Rudd at the Marathon grill. The menu demonstrates that the cost of a three course meal at the Marath...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Being an actor, you tend to try and bring something of yourself into the character," says Gyllenhaal, who spent most of the second semester of his high-school senior year shooting "October Sky" in East Tennessee last year. "So to do service to the true story, I think you have to compare with...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Big Bird is forty and he's having a big birthday party - Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal will be among those playing pass the parcel with the Cookie Monster and eating trifle. The fortieth season, this coming winter, is set to include some treats that will do good to those of us who grew up with Sesa...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Last night, twitters were tweeting that Jake Gyllenhaal, along with Reese and her son Deacon, were spotted in the audience at the Billy Joel and Elton John show at Citizens Bank Park, Philly, last night. The Insider this morning suggests that Elton John may have given Reese one of those 'wh...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) And if you run out of money during your stay in Pittsburgh then do not worry - you can get a job as a Love and Other Drugs 'silent bit'. Mosser Casting has put out a call for LOD extras: 'EXTRAS NEEDED FOR “LOVE AND OTHER DRUGS” A FEATURE FILM STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL AND ANNE HATHAWAY!! “Love and...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Two cowboy shirts worn by actors Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal in the movie Brokeback Mountain are heading to The Autry National Center in Los Angeles. The two shirts have been intertwinded to represent "the struggle between heritage and acceptance in gay cowboy culture."'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) After all the excitement of new PoP images of Jake Gyllenhaal wet and in a hurry, time to take a brief pause and catch up. Jake is in Philadelphia while Reese films and both have been enjoying the city's dining establishments. Last night they were at Alma de Cuba, a restaurant with a formidably...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Wilkeson seemed to be taking the filming in stride. Crowds were small at Chuck's - just clumps of people really, looking on and occasionally taking snapshots. One young woman asked Leto, Gyllenhaal and Blair to pose for her, and with a smile they complied.'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Yesterday, Jordan Mechner, Todd McFarlane and Nachie Castro (editor of the Disney book group) took to the Comic-Con stage to discuss the Prince of Persia grahic novel and, happily and inevitably, the movie that has inspired and shaped it. Castro: 'it’s going to blow everybody away'. And t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The video below captures a little of the atmosphere during Gilliam's discussion of his film and of his 'lucky charm' Heath Ledger. And what about Jake? Yesterday a twitter spotted Jake Gyllenhaal at the Jim Henson lot in LA, suggesting Jake is intriguingly busy...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) As we know Jake Gyllenhaal watched the Dodgers beat the Cincinnati Reds last night in LA. I'm glad to say we now have a picture and we learn that Jake was at the game with Peter Sarsgaard (fresh from the premiere of his new film) and hat. But just wait a minute - is that a Spider-Man t-shirt Jake's w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) While Jake Gyllenhaal watches the Dodgers win in LA (and I sigh about the lack of operational cameras in that fine city), the Prince of Persia action is heating up at Comic-Con in San Diego. Feast your eyes on Little Jake! I love the detail in the armour and on the face (note how I'm ignoring the...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Meanwhile, in other movie news, Jake has gained another brother - as if Tobey Maguire wasn't enough. The new brother is the comedian Josh Gad. Josh will play a 'vulgar but successful dot-com entrepreneur who moves in with Gyllenhaal.' I'm intrigued by what type of film this will be - a screwba...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) 1. The Making of Prince of Persia (13 April, 176 pages) 'When Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions unite to create a movie, the result is bound to be epic, magical, and full of adventure. In Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Oscar-nominated actor Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokebac...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake has persistently chosen films solely for their lunar names - Moonlight Mile and Unnamed Moon Project, to name but two. Donnie Darko also prepared Jake for those moments when one might encounter, unexpectedly, giant talking alien rabbits.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake was also spotted at a Coldplay concert in LA. When I hear of Coldplay and Jake together I am always reminded, not of Gwyneth and Proof, but of the time I heard of Jake's vanishing act during the filming of The Day After Tomorrow when he sneaked off to see Coldplay.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Entertainment Weekly has the first official photograph of Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan, Prince of Persia. It's a beauty. Meanwhile, a possible clue to the Prince of Persia's appearance at San Diego's Comic-Con next week is that a number of Twitters saw Jake in the Disney offices in LA yesterd...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake and Reese didn't just attend a Hollywood Bowl concert last weekend, on the Friday they were seen at a much more low key event - a gig in Ojai to launch a CD, Granada Doaba, by Californian and Spanish hiphop band Gnawledge. They bought the CD and you can download the album here. Canyon Cody, a...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Last night it was tweeted that Jake Gyllenhaal had been seen at Jenny Lewis and Ray LaMontagne's show at the Hollywood Bowl that evening. And today we have the pictures of Jake and Reese leaving the Bowl. As compensation for the report that Jake was irritable with the paps while Reese argued w...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Brokeback Mountain had a stills photographer, Kimberley French, who has the gift of melting into the background and being tolerated and liked and admired by actors. Her photography on the set - especially her images of Heath with whom she had a special connection - led to the instantly rec...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Demonstrating once more that we have Jake Gyllenhaal to thank for the invention of the white t-shirt, here we see Jake and Reese at Brentwood's Burn 60 gym yesterday. Judging by the shoes Jake is carrying (when arriving at the club?), it may be possible that Jake has been participating in th...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Obviously, the first thing that we will all notice is that Tobey Maguire is not wearing a shirt and Jake Gyllenhaal is. To say that I'm dumbfounded by this mixup is an understatement. Despite this regrettable error, this poster presents a powerful image of a family splintered.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) June, 2004: 'Star can exclusively report that Gyllenhaal, 23 -- best-known for his roles in The Good Girl, with Jennifer Aniston, 35, and Donnie Darko -- beat out actors like Ashton Kutcher, 26 and Brendan Fraser, 35, to play the Man of Steel. Headshots of potential actors were on a wall und...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Of course there's rain and then there's British rain, as all will remember from the sodden Baftas of 2006: 'And Jake Gyllenhaal said: "The rain adds a personal British flair. I got poked by a lot of umbrellas - an experience I've not had on a carpet before."' People, resist the urge to poke Jake...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie also stuck up for Bubble Boy: 'The siblings are close, and Maggie even defends "Bubble Boy,'' the film often labeled Jake's worst. "I thought Jake was great in it," Maggie said, "and I actually thought 'Bubble Boy' was a subversive, smart film, not just another stupid comedy."'

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Nigel Coles, the director of Calender Girls, had wanted Jake and Alison Lohman to star in his A Lot Like Love. Alison had been in another of the casts of This is Our Youth in London and she also featured with Jake in Teen Vogue in December of 2003. The director of This Is Our Youth, Laurence Boswel...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Kate Bosworth on Twitter: 'Public Enemies was alright but the trailer for a film called 'Brothers' w/ Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire & Natalie Portman looks FANTASTIC!' And because I can't get enough of Brothers Jake, here are some more caps:

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Jake does not only look like a younger Dennis Quaid when he needs too, Brad Silberling picked him to play a version of himself partly because 'an agent friend alerted Silberling to Gyllenhaal, declaring, "You guys scare me by how much alike you are." Silberling beat the rush to hire the acto...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) In it, Melissa discusses her influences for turning the words of the original novels into believable characters in a script and on the big screen. Her influences for how to portray love were Romeo and Juliet and also, and most strongly by the sound of it, Brokeback Mountain. Brokeback Mount...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Remember the unforgettable Aqua Velva scene in Zodiac, when Jake's Robert Graysmith proudly announces to Robert's Paul Avery that the killer may be using a code named the Zodiac Alphabet? In his commentary to the film, David Fincher had this to say about that smile on Jake's face: 'I love...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie Gyllenhaal isn't the only member of the GyllenGaard to have a move in, or about to hit, theatres. Peter Sarsgaard will be seen on the big screen in the US from 24 July in Orphan. And, while I can't say that I'm a big afficionado of films with scary children who can lurk and scream on command...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Many thanks to IHJ for posting the picture below of Jake Gyllenhaal from last night, which is beautiful and inspirational. It merits a second post of the day. Today: 'Jake Gyllenhaal is on M St in Georgetown w/ Reese Witherspoon right now. They were just in Hu's Shoes. Both wearing baseball cap...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The Red Sox beat the Washington Nats last night in DC and Jake Gyllenhaal was there to watch (or chat) looking so hot my eyeballs have melted. No sign of any hat pledging allegiance but, judging by the red t-shirts behind him, Jake was hopefully cheering on his old Boston favourites as they wo...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Further evidence that the night was a late one comes from none other than Andi Peters, much loved and adored by any child and teen (including myself) of the 80s and 90s who had a thing for Ed the Duck. First, Andi announced that he 'Just stood next to Jake Gyllenhaal whilst queueing in a shop' - t...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) I get back home after a workout at the gym and what do I find but pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon going home after a workout at the gym? And while my workout has left me looking like a complete wreck of a human being with distressed hair, severe leg cramps, and in dire need of a s...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) One of the many remarkable aspects of Brokeback Mountain, and the credit for this belongs as much to Ang Lee as it does to Jake Gyllenhaal, is how Jake was transformed from cityboy to cowboy. It wasn't easy for Jake, who had to get used to a lot more than just riding a horse that might throw him of...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) As David Fincher says in his Zodiac commentary (for the scene when Jake translates and writes out the Zodiac code in the San Francisco Chronicle office to Avery): 'We had to retouch the knuckles of this scene because Jake's hands are very hairless and pretty. The double that we had doing a lo...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The lovely Anne Hathaway has confirmed that she is to act alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in Love and Other Drugs. She did so on The View (right at the end of this clip), leading to a rather strange confusion between Jake and Joaquin Phoenix. I know that Jake has a famous similarity to a certain other...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Talking of film fathers, one who looked to me like a good match as a dad for a young Jake was Dennis Quaid in The Day After Tomorrow. "We had Dennis in mind because he is strong, smart, likable, fatherly and tough," [Producer Mark] Gordon says. As for Gyllenhaal, last seen with Dustin Hoffman in...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) With big thanks to a London blogger, Jake Gyllenhaal and The Hat were seen yesterday playing pirates in Kensington Park. Not only that, there was a camera to hand. And, unless Jake has developed an interest in 16th-century rigging, it's quite possible that Jake was entertaining fellow pir...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) GQ is a big fan of Jake's, with its Editor in Chief Jim Nelson singling out working with Jake as a high point of his time with the magazine: 'Nobody is more down-to-earth and genuinely cool than Jake Gyllenhaal. I just like him a lot personally. I feel that he has not been affected much by stardom....

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Once one gets over the sheer delight of seeing Jake again (not to mention seeing Jake with Peter and Maggie), there are several things to note here - and this bit comes with an advance warning of yet another WDW List. 1) Jake is hot; 2) the scruff is pitched at a perfect level; 3) new Nike (always...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie Gyllenhaal is in Paris to publicise Sherry Baby, which, rather surprisingly (and rather slowly - even for a Gyllenhaal film), had its French premiere this week. And yes! You've guessed it - hot on the tweets of Jake being in London, twitters are now tweeting that Jake has followed Ma...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) We can expect much more at the Disney D23 Expo in Anaheim in September. I heard a rumour that a Spyro the Dragon movie is also on the cards. I don't believe (so far) that any rumour has associated Jake Gyllenhaal with that one. Watch this space...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) During the earlier years of Jake's career, comparisons between Jake and the older Tobey were rife. For example: 'Gyllenhaal, with Tobey Maguire's sleepy eyes and sly smile, is fascinating as Donnie, smoothly making the frequent transitions between normal, beyond-his-years angst an...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) I always had the feeling that this was a role Jake would personally have relished, the subject even popped up during Rendition promotion. Jake's love for cycling is not in doubt, nor is his extensive wardrobe of matching spandex and arm warmers, many of which carry the yellow and black of Li...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) First, several people (including Jake Gyllenhaal the first day we met) have pointed out to me that Dastan is also a Persian word meaning ”story.” And so it is, although the vowel is pronounced differently. According to wikipedia, a Dastan is a type of Central Asian oral history “centered on...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Witt shot intensely with Gyllenhaal. The Chilean [filmmaker] tells that the "Brokeback Mountain" actor lifted weights between takes to stay in shape and reveals that: "Sometimes Jake prefered to shoot with me. He and Mike didn't get along well and a couple of time they shouted at each othe...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Breaking News! According to Variety, Jake Gyllenhaal is to star with Jim Carrey in the film musical Damn Yankees! All the signs have indicated that Jake has a musical in him and this sounds like a big one - who knows, it may even come out on time...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) My Proof issues are well-documented. While some Gyllenhaalics are adamant that Proof was a sensitive examination of loss, depression and trust, others - well, me - have trouble getting past the sleepy lack of chemistry between Gwyneth Paltrow and Jake Gyllenhaal. Fortunately, the film...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Time magazine had this to say about Jake's features: 'Jake Gyllenhaal has just those qualities, plus huge brown eyes and a fretful mouth, giving him the look of a spaniel afraid he's about to be swatted.' Obviously, Time wins 0/10 for observancy, for not realising that Jake does not have br...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Although the quality's not great, we must be grateful indeed to the kind Jake fan who has posted a clip of Jake Gyllenhaal introducing David Fincher - Director in Residence (you just have to hear how Jake says that) - at the Santa Barbara Film Festival a few days ago.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Emphasising Jake's hotness is the revelation today that one of America's top ten hottest professors would choose Jake Gyllenhaal to play him in a movie - suggesting that even hot profs aspire to Jake levels of hotness. I'd be interested to know if the UK has a top ten of hot profs...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Ang Lee famously told the Guardian that Heath was '"easy to photograph, easier than Jake," observes Brokeback director Ang Lee. "With some actors, you have to avoid this and that. Not with Heath." Nevertheless, natural born performer and photography fan Jake Gyllenhaal (his mother bough...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Brokeback Opera shelved and a Jack Twist Remember the Brokeback Mountain opera, scheduled to open on Broadway? It's become the victim of the 'credit crunch' and has been shelved. An opera based on the life of Walt Disney has also had its resources removed.

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) This is a far cry from the time when the very young Jake was being put through his action hero paces on the set of The Day After Tomorrow. Back in June 2004, producer Mark Gordon and director Roland Emmerich told SFX magazine, with not a little humour, how they set about making their vision a rea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Just the slightest of news about Brothers - just a slither - but just to remind us all that the wheels still turn to bring this film to our screens. Variety reports that producer Michael 'De Luca just wrapped the Relativity-financed, Jim Sheridan-directed "Brothers," which MGM releases i...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) My personal feeling about this relationship is that it was both productive and prickly - and maybe a litle awkward - coloured by parallels with The Graduate and by Dustin's sense of paternalism for a young and gifted character actor. But also, Jake Gyllenhaal was promoted as the film's lea...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) The English accent is not a particularly easy one to master but Jake is in the capable hands of Barbara Berkery who previously instructed Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger: 'Berkery has also coached Brad Pitt (Seven Years in Tibet), Jim Carrey (A Christmas Carol, due out next year) and...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Maggie has also been talking some more about Heath Ledger: 'I knew him some before we did the movie together (her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, co-starred with Ledger in ‘Brokeback Mountain’). Heath hit a stride that was absolutely free, which is rare for an actor. The scene I did with him was ve...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) If ever you wanted proof that Nailed is up and running again and Jake is back at work, this should do the trick. Nicole, our eyes and ears on the ground in Columbia, South Carolina, had the amazing opportunity to not only watch Jake Gyllenhaal at work on Nailed but to be a part of the project, as o...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Dustin told Jake that he was good but that he needed to be better and these skills would be learned in the theatre, so Jake took to the boards of the London West End. As a result of this, Jake was spotted by no fewer than three directors who influenced Jake's subsequent career - Roland Emmerich f...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) A few days earlier in NYC: 'If you sit on the steps of The Museum of Natural History to catch some sun on Tuesday, and notice how spanking clean everything looks, thank the producers of The Day After Tomorrow. At the premiere of the global warming/ice age-themed film, machines spewed soap bu...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) Real Gulf War hero and Vietnam vet, Sergeant Major James Dever: "I made him live, breathe and sleep like a Marine," recalls Dever. "I showed him how they act, what they feel and how they bond. By the end of it...well, I guess we made an impression."' Unfortunately, this may not have been reciprocat...

By noreply@blogger.com (Wet Dark and Wild) In October 2004, Jake was being linked to the role of author Toby Young in the movie How to Lose Friends and Influence People: 'It will see Young — famously short and bald — being played by Hollywood pin-up Jake Gyllenhaal, best known for The Day After Tomorrow and Donnie Darko... The story is ba...

So I'm completely none the wiser and as confused as ever. I'm beginning to think that we may have to wait for Jake in Space until after Nailed. But with filming to start on Nailed in April, we'll know soon enough. I don't know what it is about UMP, but it brings out the October Sky and Moonlight Mile...

Inspired by this rich essay, I hope you won't mind if I post here another feature about Brokeback Mountain. Written in September 2005 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Cincinnati CityBeat article includes short interviews with both Jake Gyllenhaal and Ang Lee. Amongst some familiar word...

David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings) has signed on to write the screenplay adaptation of Matthew Quick's soon-to-be-published comic novel The Silver Linings Playbook for the Weinstein Company. Playbook centers on a man who, after a mental collapse, is released from a facil...

Jake also discusses his appearance on SNL and the dedication of his opening number to the fans of Brokeback. Jake says that the song title was suggested by his press officer. Jake also enthuses about Italian food, a favourite amongst all his family, and jokes that cappuccino is served for It...

The film will premiere on 8 March at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The other members of the movie's advisory board, alongside Jake, are Ted Danson, Gideon Lester, Mary Steenburgen, Brad Silberling (of Moonlight Mile fame) and Claudia Well. More than a few of these a...

Zodiac is nominated for Best Thriller and Best Film and David Fincher is nominated for Best Director. Unfortunately no mention is made of Jake Gyllenhaal, or the rest of Zodiac's cast, nor of Rendition. The awards are presented at a ceremony in London on 9 March. You can read the full shortlis...

The unexpected and premature loss of Heath has given the powers that be in Hollywood and the movie industry a dilemma over how best to honour this much-missed man and actor. The tragedy has also highlighted to the industry the significance of Heath's film Brokeback Mountain and reminded t...

Ledger made one film for which he will undeniably be remembered. When the news of his death was reported on the airwaves, commentators unanimously described him as the groundbreaking young Aussie who played the "gay cowboy" in Brokeback Mountain. This captures the press at its most lavis...

But ours is not to reason why and one should not brood. So, instead, I thought I'd lighten my mood by focusing on something guaranteed to make me smile. In the MTV UK Zodiac special, both Jake and David Fincher made it clear that Jennifer Aniston was responsible for the casting of Zodiac, and th...

So without doubt (and no bias here, of course..), Jake is the most stunning of film stars, but what is he like? At the very beginning of March, the LA premiere of Zodiac took place behind closed barriers at Paramount Studios and without the presence of Jake. But, even in NYC, Jake may have felt hi...

Talking of Maggie - she and Peter attended the Film Critics Circle Awards yesterday in New York City yesterday and she looked simply stunning (and Peter didn't look bad either). Can I just say - my Zodiac Director's Cut arrived today!

My favourite Jake moment of 2007 is at the Rendition World Premiere at the TIFF. No surprise, because I can be heard screaming Jake's name in a manner that would make even a banshee cringe in horror in the vid I shot of the event. I remember standing there amidst a crowd of people, what must have b...

Rendition, unfortunately but not unexpectedly, got little mention. However, the Kane County Chronicle ignored Zodiac and placed Rendition at No 8: 'The fall brought many films that examined our post-9/11 world. This is the best of them, a shattering drama about an American Muslim (Omar...

A paparazzi video of Tobey Maguire emerged from the other night when he was out in Los Angeles having a break from filming Brothers. The haircut on him is distinctly jarheady and yet again makes me relieved that Jake is the 'Other Brother'. I much prefer Jake with a hairy chin than with a heairl...

My initial reaction is a big sigh of relief. This sounds like it will not be the bare bones release to which, after Brokeback Mountain and the initial release of Zodiac, we've had to become accustomed. I know I'm not alone in hoping and wishing that Jake Gyllenhaal is among the 'participants t...

I'm absolutely delighted to bring you the video of Jake Gyllenhaal on The Culture Show last night, all due to the sterling efforts of Twisted Logic who managed to do this for us despite attending a Hen Party and suffering the consequences. This clip comprises the entire segment by Frank Gar...

Rendition was discussed alongside Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise) and The Kingdom (Jamie Foxx). While the interview was being set up, we saw Frank introducing himself to Jake as someone who is not a film critic but instead a man who has reported on the war in Ira...

Just a reminder that, tonight, Rendition is featured in the UK's The Culture Show - BBC2 9.20pm. Also, please note that the time has changed from that originally posted! Jake Gyllenhaal is interviewed by BBC correspondent Frank Gardner who was left for dead - and paralysed - by a terrorist g...

I must take umbrage at the description of Maggie as a starlet. Has Maggie ever been a starlet in her entire career? - I'd argue No with a capital N. Zodiac Director's Cut Many more here. Includes pictures from IHJ and Hollywood Elsewhere. Cartoon by leepeters.com.

Henny tells us: "I shot Jake in Toronto in 2005. He was there for Brokeback Mountain and there was alot of buzz around him," Garfunkel remembers of a playful Gyllenhaal. "Anne Hathaway, Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were all in the room while I was shooting and someone came in and told th...

Jake's hope that Rendition can 'aid in a discussion that's just beginning' is mirrored in a passionate article in the Guardian, in which Peter Tatchell, urges everyone to go and see Rendition so that we will all know what is being done in our name. Ignorance should not be an excuse. I posted a l...

Rendition Day here at last! For all those who are able to see it, I hope you have an amazing time. Peter's Rendition surprise Jake cheers Reese up I shook Jake Gyllenhaal's hand' if this turns out to be true.... I can't even express how abhorrent I find the idea of a Brokeback Sequel.

BUT, that was not an ordinary experience, it was the culmination of a day of Bountiful Jake, on foreign shores, with dear friends, and in the company (albeit at a distance) of Jake Gyllenhaal, Gavin Hood, Reese Witherspoon, Omar Metwally, Kelly Sane, Peter Sarsgaard and others whom we ha...

The interview this morning - on This Morning - was an absolute treat. For some reason, these uninhibited British interviewers seem to get away with much more due to their sheer gall. Not many other interviewers came away with a kiss on the lips from Jake Gyllenhaal! Enjoy!

And then there was the Japanese moment, not to mention Jake asking Conan 'Do you want to smell it?'. At which Conan did indeed get a sniff of the famous 'Jake Gyllenhaal Beard Effect'. Jake needs a comedy - Japan's not the only nation to have seen the light. And then there's the Gnarls Crazy momen...