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Post by eausavage on Jan 12, 2011 20:57:05 GMT -5
awesome pics, Nino Munoz done them, like those published on Esquire UK last OCT, if i remember correct, it's an amazing photographer, thank so much for sharing!
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Post by Sasha4Jake on Jan 13, 2011 2:08:15 GMT -5
Thanks Monica, really nice.
@maria: you're one informed girl!
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Post by eausavage on Jan 13, 2011 8:22:10 GMT -5
I love fashion mangazine, and i'm photographer natural fans, i love Helmut Newton, John Rutter, Mappletorpe, and Avedon, and many more, so i know Munoz from a bit, he's quite talented and done very great pics ^^
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Post by Stephanie on Jan 14, 2011 3:29:23 GMT -5
Thanks Monica! ;D
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Post by eausavage on Jan 15, 2011 19:29:49 GMT -5
I wish to give a big thanks to sword who's PM me the link thru PM, not sure if it was already spotted but there's an interesting nterview on Wet Dark and Wild about Gyllenhaal and press, and how he choose the character, really interesting: www.wetdarkandwild.com/
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Post by eausavage on Jan 15, 2011 20:06:03 GMT -5
here's the deatils First Part: Last night's publication of a fascinating interview between a reflective and thoughtful Jake Gyllenhaal (albeit fairly coldy and snotty) with Scott Feinberg gave us the rare chance to listen to Jake talk at great length about some of his deepest motivations and cares. In response to requests, I've taken a closer look at Jake's words. There is far too much to cover in one post (unless you want to wait 72 hours), not just looking at what Jake said, but also some of the themes raised. It is a veritable treasure trove. And so, in this first post, Jake talks about the early years and how he learned a valuable and painful lesson which ultimately led him to October Sky. There are gaps - some of the recording is unclear, especially at the beginning. And so any hesitations are mine and not Jake's.
Revenge of the Nerds
Going to the movies as a kid: 'I went to the movies a lot... When I was a kid, the actor that I loved - I was a huge fan of the Police Academy movies to be honest when I was a kid (laughs). They're great movies. There were actually really wonderful characters dealing in topics that were funny and also... I mean, mostly funny. I was a big Leslie Nielsen fan and all the Naked Gun movies I loved as a kid. I loved Revenge of the Nerds. In terms of actors that I looked up to, I... I'm trying to think,... I loved Harrison Ford because I loved Indiana Jones as a kid a lot, all of those movies. And then I loved old movies too that my parents always had us watch. I mean I loved Danny Kaye as a kid. we watched Hans Christian Andersen. I even just recently saw it, my niece had watched it, and just couldn't keep my eyes off it, how Danny Kaye, how effortless his screenwork was and how charismatic he was on screen and just the detail and the... in his performances. It looked kind of effortless and ultimately, as anyone knows who's done anything, you can see how much work is involved in that effortlessness. That I remember really, really well.'
Have a chair
'(Laughs) I do remember... I do remember getting a first laugh and I think it started that way for me. Like a lot of people have asked me that question and I never until really recently begun to think that the answer to the latter part of that question it, that it hasn't been until relatively recently that I've felt like performing is something that would be my life's work. I think as an actor, in particular, but I think anyone in the movie business whatever they do it seems to me... cos I'm always wondering if they're going to be able to get to the next job and what's it going to be and I think the nature of the business sort of in some ways thrives on knowledge and security... But it wasn't until recently that I knew that I wanted to do it through my life.'
'But when I was a kid there was a specific moment when I remember sort of getting an idea. My parents were at a dinner with their friends and we were all sort of joking and laughing and everything like that and I remember I was maybe six or eight years old and when one of the - as with a lot of the stories that one tells - it's probably not so funny when I tell it now - as one of the guests was leaving, me getting a chair from the table and telling them 'wait a minute, you forgot your parting gift, I got a chair for you...' I remember it very clearly and everybody, I don't know if they were drunk from the party or not, but everybody, that was the reason that they all erupted in laughter. But I remember that feeling... That having an idea... and then getting a response from it. I remember that really clearly and then it started to grow on me that impulse and I realised that you know, get on stage and try for the same thing.'
Gathering the tools
'My parents let me dabble in things... so I auditioned for that and when I got the role. They let me audition for things, I remember that, and what I think about it now is that I'm sure it must have been hard for them to feel that someone so young had something that they cared so much about and were passionate about. But sometimes it's like teaching a kid patience is one of the hardest lessons, it seems to me watching parents, that's the hardest thing to teach. And they tried their best, and saying to me 'I know you want to do this thing but you really have no idea of what it entails and there's a craft to it and there's... it's not just ambition and drive. It's about gathering the tools'. I remember my mother always saying that to me, 'It's about gathering the tools that you need in order to do this thing that you so desperately want to do cos you'll fall flat on your face if you don't.'
'As a teenage actor, I mean I did a little bit of work but I really did have and protect and I feel very, very protective of my life, which is what they knew, as an artist that there's no way to create anything if you don't have a life. I think that's really what they were getting at. 'You can go off and act and act and act but if you don't have a life that you're cultivating then you are going to have nothing to be inspired by. I think that as writers, as a writer and a director, and someone who's behind the camera and is a creator of a story, understands that more. Like if you're dry of ideas then usually it's because you haven't been out there living your life... I think there's always a need for kids in movies but I am not a huge proponent of it. I'm a huge proponent of... you get thrown up there and you become... you're just not aware. As a child you're innocent and you're not aware of the fact that it's an adult industry. And you have to act like an adult. And I've seen that before. I've been an adult with children in movies. It's a confusing thing, regardless of what anybody wants to say about it and I found it that way and that's what I want to say that it hasn't been until very recently that I've started to feel like it's something I've wanted to do for the rest of my life...'
Lessons
'There was a time in my life where I was able to drive. I got my driver's license and I was in high school still and at the beginning part of my senior year in highschool and I had free periods at school, like I would have an hour in between class sometimes and I had double free periods, when I had two hours and I would set up times where I could audition in that two-hour block of free time during the schoolday sometimes.And I was in a school play and then I would go and audition for things. And actually the great irony of that moment for me was that I was auditioning for things, I read the script of October Sky and I remember saying... 'I want to play this part; I can play this part' and I had...[You can stop me...] But I remember when I was in high school and I had gone into an audition for a highschool play and I asked my highschool drama teacher, who was a very important influence on my life, for directions before I went in to audition for him for another audition I was going to go to and - I didn't really give it my all at the auditions...'
'I had been acting for a long time but I would get a role, and I didn't really give it my all and I'd ask him for direction... assuming that he knew that I could act and that I was, you know... and I guess it goads me that some people have experience and I see it a lot too in any field professionally...'Let me get this, it's no big deal to put my whole heart into it', and I went off and did this audition which happened to be the first audition for October Sky and then I came back and for a couple of days literally after... I wasn't cast in the play and I was devastated. And I went to my highschool drama teacher and... he had no respect. 'There was no respect for what you had to do here. How can you have respect for doing it professionally if you don't have respect for it here, and vice versa? If you don't have respect for it. So why would I want an actor like that in my play?'' 'That was a huge lesson for me and then in a strange kind of event I got a callback for October Sky and I didn't want to go. I shouldn't do this! I finally went in and did it and ultimately somewhere out of that lesson I learned I think I got this part. I gave it my all. I mean everything. I gave everything I could to get that part. I remember I auditioned many times. My heart was open to the process and so I got that part from there. And I remember... there were so many things that came up there that I learned from getting that role as an actor. The lessons I learned as an actor.'
'I remember that I auditioned for Ang Lee for Ride with the Devil actually, maybe a couple of times before that and I had walked in to the audition with my hair spiked up and I had all these necklaces on and... you know, obviously, Ride with the Devil, and when I got back from Ang Lee who ironically I ended up working with in another movie (laughs) was... I couldn't see him in any of the roles, he was a modern person, I didn't understand. His hair was spiked up, his necklaces were on - I couldn't see him in the role. And so for October Sky when I auditioned for it, I combed my hair back and I wore a shirt that I thought was sort of 50s like and I really got into the character in a way that... and I started to learn all these lessons which culminated in me getting the role.'
Second part: Jake Gyllenhaal Part 2: When the right role comes along 'I go after it like a wolf!' After a break for jogging and while Jake Gyllenhaal irons his shirt, collects his dry cleaned suit and ponders over which shoes to wear for tomorrow's Golden Globes, here is the second part of the sensational and lengthy interview conducted with Scott Feinberg. In this part Jake covers the 'teenage in transition' roles, the big movies of the mid 2000s, living privately in the public eye and his pride in Love and Other Drugs. As before, there are times when words are unclear and/or muffled and I've done my best and so, as previously said, any mistakes are mine and not Jake's. Over to Jake: Teenager in Transition
'I just remember being pretty confused! There was a lot coming at me and I didn't... and I think that was what Donnie Darko was born out of, Bubble Boy was born out of that - the question of confusion of adolesence and growing up and being out there on my own for the first time. And even the movie Highway that I did with Jared Leto which never came out at the the theatres. The Good Girl really. All of these characters came out of, I think, a sense - I think I have always tried to just,... but I guess I just learned from the lesson of the moment... where I was in that moment I think, that I kept on questioning...'
I care very deeply about what I do and I think that leaves me very vulnerable in a lot of ways
'It's funny but I've seen over the past five years the image of an actor really sort of change. What an actor does and what people expect from them. Being outside scrutiny, and the internet and all these things - you have to maintain integrity (laughs). There are a lot of different things that changed since 2005 to 2011, you know what I mean? In terms of what it is to be an actor and what young actors think it is to be an actor. There are people acting all the time, all over the place, themselves, really. For me, I think I saw, there was definitely a phase in there with Proof and Jarhead and Brokeback Mountain - those came at me in way that was just like kismet. There was just a real... being at work with those movies. And yes the beginning, trying to find a real ease in the acting process and I think that ease translates maybe into being an adult.'
And then with Brokeback and what Brokeback became, that was... all of us in that process, that was overwhelming. I see that a lot with people involved in movies that are such... and become these huge things in culture and that happens, it does happen. I think there was a little bit of searching after that for me. I was like, Ok, there's Rendition and then there's... I did Zodiac, which was, looking back on it, particularly the honour to be working with David Fincher and Mark Ruffalo and Tony Edwards and Downey, and seeing where Downey was, that was a really special time. There was searching in that, for me that's what it feels like when I think of that.'
And then even with Prince of Persia there was a search in there, figuring that out. And then I think when I did Love and Other Drugs there's a... to be there's a real clarity actually, just knowing the character, finding a character that, a real character that I fell in love with. And for the first time... there are a couple I'd say - Donnie Darko and Jarhead and Brokeback, even October Sky, there are a couple of characters in there that I felt sure about and when my instinct comes up like that I go after it like a wolf! I mean I really do! And I did with that. Imagine me with... that for me was Love and Other Drugs. That, that marks the beginning of something else for me and that's why I feel so proud of it and that's why the character and the role I feel... I feel at ease with it. Like when the movie came out, there's usually a lot of... I like to think that they're only there... I care very deeply about what I do and I think that leaves me very vulnerable in a lot of ways to some people's responses but with this one, with Love and Other Drugs, I was like I didn't really care... and that's the beginning of another phase for me, which is different than I've ever felt before.'
I'm just as guilty of being interested in the people that I admire
'I approach all this stuff with great trepidation because I always feel that I never know how my words will be interpreted which I think is the weird irony like I said of being an actor because ultimately the only thing I see that I want to see from actors is vulnerability and I want to see them open their hearts. And when somebody tries to do that in their work and other people know very little about what's actually going on and tend to paint a very, very simple picture. I'm not necessarily sure why that happens but I think it's just... we're all part and parcel of it, do you know what I mean? I'm just as guilty of being interested in the people that I admire or somehow I find as interesting as the next person. I do happen to be a part of that, of some people's interest.'
'But I think, to be really honest, which is hard to be, I think it is kind of really... I think for a while there I thought it sort of impacted my life in a way and then I realised like, you know,... I'm a very private person. I try - the irony about all of this is that I really try to be a very private person and I definitely am, in choosing what I want to do, giving up that privacy, which is already confusing (laughs). But I think that... I think what I've noticed is that it's so hard for anybody, whether they're under scrutiny by a photographer or by some tabloid, or whatever, any journalist, whatever you might do, it's hard for anybody to find themselves, really their true selves. It's just frustrating when people have intentions and the intentions are... They've made it so, so simple when it's a so complicated, fascinating, extraordinary thing. And that's what I see movies moving away from too - it's harder and harder to have people make movies about complicated, fascinating... because that's not what's being consumed as much but actually it feels like maybe there's talk about it this year, that maybe people are really wanting that. That they really do want that... I realise, as I said, that it can be seen like 'Why the hell are you in these things every week?', they might not like that.'
'There is something that I would love... I love that people understand that it's a funny thing, I think, in the end and you hear about celebrities getting upset at the photographers and I understand why! (Laughs) I don't know what it is but it's just a real... it's made it impossible for people to be totally honest because when you're honest it's manipulated.'
Love and Other Drugs
'When Annie came on the project, as what happens when anybody who's a great actor, they're looking for the reasons for why their character exists. That's the first real question you always have to ask and sometimes actors I think can fit themselves into something that's the way they've been given weight to, they can create weight themselves. Sometimes the weight's already there entirely written by the writer and they just show up and read their lines and somehow the story creates something even deeper than you could have imagined. But in the case of Annie and that role, it wasn't as much and I made a decision, which was great advice from a lot of different people who had read the story, that the strength of the script was always - and I believe the strength of the movie is too - is its love story and all the rest of it, not that all the rest of it can go away, but in a way it could.'
'And what I think mattered the most as an actor is going towards the thing that works. Its seen for any created thing, that anybody who has any great success in the movie business, moving towards the thing that works and that is the most honest. And when Annie came on, she was like 'what the hell is this girl doing here?' I don't understand. Is she just like a thing... to create sympathy?' And we worked on it to make it a real love story and we just started cutting things, that the story used to be a story about this guy who goes through a journey and then it became a love story.'
'And I think it really was born out of Ed, Annie and I all deciding that that was something... At any point along the way me, or Annie or Ed could have said 'I'm out of here. No, this isn't the story I wanted to tell.' I could have said I wanted to be that guy who learned something and Annie could have said this character isn't developed enough and if it's not about her I'm out of here, and Ed could say any number of different things. But I think we were all on the same page with it and Parkinson's is what she deals with and I think the movie deserved a trememdous amount of more weight than it had been given initially in the script. So we just went that way and I hope that answers your question.'
Thanks
'It means a lot that you like the movie. To me, Annie, Ed and I tried so... we tried so hard to make something special with this movie and the fact that people respond to it makes me... how much hard work was put into it and how much we care about these characters. It means a lot, thank you.'
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Post by Sasha4Jake on Jan 15, 2011 20:18:21 GMT -5
Isn't that a great interview, too bad I couldn't listen to it, I love Jake's voice so much!
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Post by eausavage on Jan 15, 2011 20:24:29 GMT -5
It's really interesting, i wish to say a BIGGGGG thanks to Sowrd aka Sonia that linked me via PM!
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Elle.
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Post by Elle. on Jan 15, 2011 22:49:57 GMT -5
Awesome interview thanks for posting! Nice to be back =D
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Post by eausavage on Jan 16, 2011 8:54:21 GMT -5
welcome back sweetie!
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Post by trekfan on Jan 16, 2011 11:33:32 GMT -5
thanks for the transcript.
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Post by eausavage on Jan 16, 2011 15:05:19 GMT -5
You're welcome
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Post by Elle. on Jan 16, 2011 18:23:13 GMT -5
Thanks Maria =D I was missing this place a lot. So happy I got my computer to work right again.
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Post by eausavage on Jan 16, 2011 19:28:29 GMT -5
it's a shame when you cannot use your own PC, glad to read tha now it's fixed!Welcome back, i miss you dear!
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Post by atalley on Jan 17, 2011 0:12:51 GMT -5
Thanks for the Video & the Interview. I love that he's always so honest & real.
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