Party pics

Update: Jake Gyllenhaal with Jerry Bruckheimer at the Los Angeles Kings/San Jose Sharks game on Tuesday, January 19:



Jake and Jerry chat with Vince Vaughn:



A few more shots of Jake attending the CAA pre-Golden Globes party on Friday night at the Buffalo Club.

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Figured I'd gussy up this post with some old Jake photos I hadn't seen before. The first two are from 2005, Jarhead and BBM promotion time, maybe in Toronto?




The second one is from an interesting French interview focusing on Jarhead. I think Jake says he became an actor because when he was young, he was put in a cage and fed peanuts. Hee. Again, any French help is appreciated.

This one is from the site for Johan Bruyneel, who was the director of Lance Armstrong's Tour de France team in 2006, the year Jake went along for the ride:

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According to E!, Jake will be at the telethon for Haiti being organized by George Clooney:

Other mega-celebs who will present and/or help in the phone banks are Jennifer Aniston, Jake Gyllenhaal, Brad Pitt, Anna Kendrick, Sandra Bullock, Zac Efron, Bradley Cooper, Renée Zellweger, Chris Pine, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Colin Farrell, Jon Hamm, Gabby Sidibe and Emily Blunt, among many others.

Hope they raise a lot of money - the situation in Haiti is dire.

(Party and hockey pics courtesy of IHJ.)

What do you get when you cross...

???????

According to Jake Gyllenhaal, this:



The folks at Gemma Arterton Online have scans of a Prince of Persia preview from the French magazine Studio Ciné Live. Their 20010 preview issue highlights three of the PoP principals: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley and Gemma Arterton.



Jake is described as an actor at the top of his game. And Jake describes the Prince:

"Dastan est un mélange de Rafael Nadal, de Mick Jagger et de Denis la Malice."

Someone really needs to do a morph of those three and Jake!

More on Dastan: "Il accumule les bévues, il pense qu'il a toujours raison, il est sarcastique, pince-sans-rire et surtout tres insolent."

Rough translation: "He makes mistakes but always thinks he's right. He's sarcastic, deadpan and always very arrogant."

I love that description! I think Jake then goes on to talk about how this is what he wanted to do as a kid, and also about all the training he had to do.




Paging Lemon or other French-speaking GBers. I can get the gist of most of it, but I don't want to try a real translation! not that we'd expect anyone to do that, either. But if you see something amusing or noteworthy, let us know.

I think Gemma describes a scene where Dastan warns her not to cut herself, and she did just that.

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From Jake's newest movies to one of his first, A Dangerous Woman. This clip showed up on youtube, and I don't think I've ever seen it before. Jake's definitely in young punk mode!



There's a quick snippet of Jake at that Maui Film Festival at the end.

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If you can stand the cacophony and the inanity, there's a very brief snippet of a very smiley Jake attending the CAA pre-Golden Globes party:



Peter and Maggie are listed, as well, but I couldn't take watching the whole video! Jake appears about two minutes in:




Yup, wearing The Jacket again :)

(Scans courtesy of Gemma Arterton Online.)

New old Jake

Stephanie uploaded some lovely new/old Jake Gyllenhaal pictures, including a late Christmas present left-profile shot for FL:




Those are from an old People photoshoot. And now we know where IHJ's Jake birthday banner photo came from - it's an outtake from the Mario Testino book:

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Brothers continues to open around the globe - in the UK next Friday and apparently in South Africa today, given the number of reviews popping up. The Globe and Mail nails it:

The adage has it that grown-up actors should beware of acting with children or animals, but the grown-ups in Brothers hold their own very admirably against this junior competition. Portman shows with each new film she makes that she is much more than the ridiculously attired but otherwise character-free Queen Padme of the later Star Wars extravaganzas. Here, she seems to be living very convincingly on an emotional hair trigger, and she makes one feel strongly for Grace. Maguire, in turn, demonstrates that he is not just a cutesy Spider-Man; his bug-eyed wastedness may feel a bit too self-consciously actorly in places, but overall it works. Shepard, as the crusty old warrior dad, adds a series of what one might call grace notes.

Gyllenhaal, though, is the most powerful presence here. Jittery and still rebellious when Tommy first comes out of jail, not fully in control of his responses, he lets the character develop subtly and strongly into something rounded and sympathetic. His trajectory is more complex, certainly, than brother Sam's, where the shocks are more in-your-face. In a film aiming for understated realism, with the attendant risk of a slight diffusion of effect, Gyllenhaal holds it all together.

Amen!

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Jordan Mechner seems to have done a new round of interviews for Prince of Persia. Some excerpts:

Was the cast required to play the game?
You know, I think Jake Gyllenhaal played Prince of Persia games. He was pretty into it. What’s interesting is that when I was in London to meet the craftspeople – the people behind the set design and costumes and so forth... all the people working behind the scenes. I found that a lot of them were real gamers and they were deeply into the Prince of Persia games.

Gamers are often sceptical when their beloved series hits the big screen. How do you think loyal Prince of Persia fans will react when they see the movie adaptation?
Well, I hope they love it. I do. For me, Prince of Persia is the kind of movie that I’ve always loved – the ones that really inspired me to make games in the first place. It’s almost like an old fashioned, swashbuckling, romantic adventure. ...

Is Jake Gyllenhaal’s portrayal how you imagined Dastan would be in the real world?
I think Jake makes a great Prince Dastan. He looks a lot like the character in the Sands of Time videogame but also he has a lot of qualities that for me has always been a part of who the Prince of Persia is. He’s a warrior, and does incredible stunts and parkour and so forth but he also has a mysterious streak and an attitude and I think a vulnerability that is part of the character’s appeal.



(Photos courtesy of IHJ.)

All Aboard?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Michelle Monaghan will appear with Jake Gyllenhaal in Source Code, and Vera Farmiga is also in negotiations to join the cast:

Farmiga will play a hands-on communications officer controlling Gyllenhaal as he travels through time and space. Monaghan is a woman on the train with whom the man is involved romantically.



(Photo strip shamelessly stolen from The Film Stage. It's too late for me to try to make one of my own!)

Not sure how I feel about this. I wasn't crazy about Monaghan in Gone Baby Gone. And she doesn't match what I've heard about the character. OTOH, I loved Vera Farmiga in Up in the Air and The Departed, so I'm happy about her involvement.

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A blog also posted some cool photos of the train station that will be used for filming: