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Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays Searcher Clade in Strange World, said that he felt a ‘fated connection’ to the Don Hall-directed animated film because of the way it treats family as a ‘microcosm’ for the world. (Also read: Jake Gyllenhaal: Skill of Bollywood actors is unsurpassed, we don’t have that in Hollywood)For the Academy award-nominated actor, what was most interesting about the film was how the focus was on three generations and how they connected — or not. He explains, “When they pitched me the story of Strange…

Filming s*x scenes with Jennifer Aniston ‘was torture’ for Jake Gyllenhaal(Pic Credit: Instagram) Filming intimate scenes is anything but a cakewalk and Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal’s experience is a testimony to it. The actor has revealed he felt “awkward” while filming s*x scenes with Jennifer Aniston, describing the whole experience as “torture”, reports ‘Mirror.co.uk’. The actors starred alongside one another in the 2002 comedy ‘The Good Girl’, which follows two lovers who are bored in their dead-end jobs and…

It seems like Jennifer Aniston has drawn the attention of almost every handsome man in the town. And Jake Gyllenhaal is no exception. In a recent interview with The Howard Stern Show, Gyllenhaal shed some light on his big crush on his co-star Jennifer Aniston. The actor was asked by the host if it was ‘torture’ to film love scenes with somebody he fancied in real life. Jake Gyllenhaal revealed to the outlet that filming intimate love scenes with Jennifer Aniston was not easy because of his real-life crush on the…

There’s been a ton of conversation over the past few years about the power of onscreen representation, and it seems like Hollywood is becoming a more diverse place. But there was a time when telling a queer story was a risk, like with Ang Lee’s acclaimed drama Brokeback Mountain. And the Academy Award winning filmmaker recently spoke about the “friction” between stars Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. What’s more, he reminisced about how the late actor was a “natural cowboy” while filming one of his most iconic…

It’s actually a little hard to believe it’s been just over three years since the second installment of the MCU Spider-Man franchise was released, Spider-Man: Far From Home. In fact, it’s almost been a whole year since the third film came out! The second film saw the arrival of Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio, or rather the nefarious Quentin Beck. As he steps into his newest film, the Disney animation Strange World, Gyllenhaal, feels like Spider-Man: Far From Home is already a memory. Whilst talking with the D23 Inside…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJake Gyllenhaal has said an interviewer “blew” his “mind” when they informed him that his Stranger World co-star Dennis Quaid portrayed his father in the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow.The two actors reprise their father-son dynamic once again in Disney’s latest animated movie.During a recent video interview for the adventure film, which has since gone viral, a Yahoo reporter begins…

Talking to Maggie Gyllenhaal can be a little disorienting. She has a high-pitched, cartoonish voice, which she uses to express deep things. One critic notoriously said that she possessed a “Kewpie-doll silliness”, but clearly it’s a flaw in our culture that we expect serious thoughts to be couched in sonorous tones. “We live in a masculine world,” she says, “and in America – especially very recently – as much as we would like to believe otherwise, it’s a misogynistic world.”The 41-year-old, Oscar-nominated for Crazy Heart…

Explore the adventures beyond our world in the new trailer of Disney’s Strange World. ( Photo Credit – A Still From Strange World ) Releasing on the 25th of November, Disney’s Strange World introduces a legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. The voice cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal as Searcher Clade, a family man who finds himself out of his…

Jake Gyllenhaal seems to be on a bit of a remake kick right now. His last two movies – Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty and Michael Bay's Ambulance – are both English-language versions of overseas films, and now the actor is set to tackle a redo of a beloved Patrick Swayze movie. Amazon Prime Video and MGM are now in the process of developing a new version of the 1989 film Road House, and not only is Gyllenhaal attached to play the lead role, but Doug Liman has come aboard to direct.Liman most recently made the COVID heist…

For a lot of people, real life is deeply connected with the acting world, and sometimes even mirrors it, but that doesn’t stand true for Hollywood star Jake Gyllenhaal. “I think real life shapes you as a human, and acting shapes your imagination. I strongly believe that acting is not real life in any form,” Gyllenhaal tells us.He continues. “In fact, it is life that always shapes one as a human. So, I have a deep belief that you walk into a scene with all of your life experiences. And it is the skill of acting or the…