Tjhe Light-Heavyweight champion of the world...
Jake Gyllenhaal
lovely to be here and congratulations on the movie really enjoyed it
Thanks
I think you kinda took Eight Mile going 12 rounds with
Rocky Three, I guess and you came out with a meaningful from about fatherhood
and responsibility.
So what made you take on a role like this?
Well to me I think a father and daughter story was really ultimately
what made me
want to do it you know the idea that a man
who had a child for a long time
didn't really understand the responsibilities of what it was like to
really be a father,
was forced to take on responsibilities and become ultimately an adult
and also somebody who gave me an opportunity to kind of explore
my own you know anger
and that sort of world of feeling which is what he
is existing in all the time. I'd take on a role
most the time to try and explore something, learn something about myself
and in this role that was the opportunity
because ti was a very angry guy who starts the movie of with like
anger full of hatred and ultimately has to learn
that anger is a big and important tool, but anger with hatred is
is a useless thing.
It was an incredibly
physical role and must have taken a lot of sacrifices to make,
If we look at look at De Niro he went very method for a long time for Raging Bull
Sly Stallone ran up a lot of stairs, ate a lot of raw eggs...
How did you get prepared for something as physically
brutal, as grueling as this role?
You know I didn't know how to box when I first started
preparing for the role so a lot of it was about learning the skills
and then I think that insecurity of not really knowing
what I was doing initially drove me I think.
You know I was nervous that we would get there and
you know I didn't know if I would look like I knew what I was doing
and so daily you know I end up training twice a day
because had five months and I thought how do I expand five months into longer
you train twice a day then it's 10 months you know and then that's 10 months
of learning
in five months and so I just
I just trained and trained and trained and obviously in order to
learn more, once you start to learn more
you need your body to be in a place where you can continue to do it, there's no
sport in the world where
as you're learning more your body needs to be
in more and more physical
shape, like better physical our top shape
What about injuries then
I know in
Night Crawler you injured your hand quite badly. With something like this when you're putting
yourself under that kind of pressure
I mean I gave myself really major razor burn this morning
and that was just gonna trying to take hair away from my face, so how did you get through
or did you get through without breaking any bones?
-and you don't really have much to
take away
I know, I know it took me 24 years before this was possible yeah and then I had to
take it away
and that's what happens but obviously I didn't I didn't put that much sacrifice
into
my facial hair this morning given the fact that it's just still
growing
but, yeah, you get hit
you get hit. I think you sort of expect it.
I was working with professional fighters
who are aware
that you know you don't wanna break your lead actor's nose
and I think the higher skill level the more they're able to do that,
or not do that I should say
But yeah,
I got hit a lot and and I hit people a lot and I don't think I really like
either,
I don't love doing either.
I don't enjoy
either of those things, especially to me, but I'm built like a large woman.
Finally, nicknames there's a lot of killer nicknames in the movie. You're working with 50 Cent,
you're working with a guy who
once played a character called Ghost Dog which was amazing.
You have an awesome nickname; The Great, thats not bad to be taking home
Any other names at home Jake Gyllen-wall?
Killen-haal?
I think my name as it is, is enough.
I think that's the coolest answer you can give
Yeah
I was called 'Bearded Sue Perkins'... and then I shaved, so I guess I'm just
You're just 'Razor Burn' razor burn mass transfer to tell people
Razor burn! That's what I'll be telling people
Jake, pleasure to meet you