Southpaw Day

New Nightcrawler art, posted on Facebook.

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Updated to add some photos from shooting on Monday. Perhaps the last day of filming?









The movie is just wrapping, but you don't need to wait for the release to celebrate. Today is international Left-handers Day. Sure, it's a made-up, meaningless holiday, but let's celebrate with some photos:

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I think Holden is Jake's only one other left-handed character:

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It's been a sad week for Hollywood, with the deaths of Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall. A 13-year-old Jake played Robin's son in an episode of Homicide. You can watch all of Robin's (and Jake's) scenes here.




That's Jake with the legendary Lauren Bacall, at the 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar party.

RIP, Lauren and Robin.

Car Talk

The sex scene between Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway has made this site's list of Top 50 Car Sex Scenes, coming in at #42.



Note: The site and the pictures can be NSFW; the commentary is not safe for thinking. And Jake is not the primary attraction for them. But he is for us!

Anne and Jake also enjoyed some auto erotica in a deleted scene from Love & Other Drugs:




Wish that one had gone on a little longer :)



Jake and Jennifer Aniston spent some front and backseat time in The Good Girl, though it wasn't R-rated:



Jake's also had some sexy photo shoots in cars:





(Some photos courtesy of IHJ.)

Cinema swan songs

Premiere has a story on Stars Who Die The Most in their movies. But there is a glaring omission: Jake Gyllenhaal.

Three of Jake's characters have met an untimely fate - more than both Will Smith and Harrison Ford who are at the bottom of the list. Jake's percentage of character deaths is higher than most people on the list.

More importantly, each character is unique and truly memorable, despite Premiere's amnesia. But we remember...



Donnie Darko



Holden Worther



Jack Twist


Let's hope Jake's next three characters have a happier fate.

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The Coachella tidbits continue. You had to wonder if Reese minded Jake looking at his old girlfriend so wistfully...



I guess not!



Reese is rocking! From an observer:

Jake Gyllenhaal (omg HOT) and Reese Witherspoon were side stage watching the whole time. Seriously, they were the most adorable freaking couple. They were both singing along to some of the songs. I got a June Carter Cash moment watching Reese rock out to Jack Killed Mom. And when Jenny slowed it down, she put her arms around his waist and they looked so happy it made me smile.

Thanks to the blogger and youtuber for the reports.

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Happy Earth Day!



(Photos, as always, courtesy of IHJ.)

Jake Gyllenhaal - This Day In History

December 27, 2002: The estimable Wall Street Journal calls The Good Girl one of the top 10 movies of the year.

Jake Gyllenhaal is wonderful, too, as an amorous adolescent who calls himself Holden after J.D. Salinger's young hero.



December 27, 2003: The Good Girl airs on Cinemax channel 4410 in Kingston, Jamaica.

(Kingston, Jamaica)

December 27, 2004: The Calgary Sun reports that Ang Lee has introduced Jake Gyllenhaal to the Canadian national pastime while on location filming Brokeback Mountain.

And while the production gave Calgarians a chance to glimpse Gyllenhaal and Ledger — along with their co-stars Anne Hathaway (Princess Diaries) and Gyllenhaal's squeeze Kirsten Dunst (Spider-Man) — around town, it gave the actors a chance to witness the excitement of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Lee himself introduced Gyllenhaal to hockey, attending many of the Flames games.

(Game 6 Stanley Cup Finals, June 5, 2004 - Tampa Bay Lighting at Calgary Flames)

December 27, 2005: Jenelle Riley for Backstage.com has a fabulous interview with Jake - Jake Of All Trades - where he talks about the three films he had coming out late in that year.

On his role as Jack Twist,

Gyllenhaal says the most difficult part of playing Jack was being unfamiliar with the feelings of his character. "It's foreign to me to be in a love story with another man, being able to make that real and try to move myself into that," he notes. In addition, Jack is the one who pursues the relationship; Ledger's Ennis is more reticent. "To be the one encouraging it, not fighting it, saying, 'This can work, I believe in this' - I've never been in a situation like that," Gyllehaal adds. "A lot of times, as an actor, you can go back and say, 'I can relate this to my life.' And I can relate to being in relationships with women where I've said, 'This can work, this can work.' But there was an added aspect to this that was totally foreign territory to me."



Also on this same date an interview appeared in Los Angeles Times with Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal in advance of her film, Bee Season, being released. Sadly, only an abstract of that interview is available online.

(Premiere of Bee Season at Toronto Int'l Film Festival, Sept. 11, 2005)

December 27, 2006: A year ago, famed Manka's Inverness Lodge suffered a devastating fire in the early morning hours. As we all know now, the Gyllenhaals were staying at the Lodge at the time. Luckily all were able to escape while losing only sentimental possessions (all of Stephen's underwear and Naomi's jewelry).

(The aftermath of the fire at Manka's Inverness Lodge, December 27, 2006)

December 27, 2007: And finally, MSN Pop of the Day looks back to a year ago in the life of the Gyllenhaals.









Photos courtesy of IHJ, SFGate, Backstage, the Internet