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[size=18]10 Things to Love About Jake[/size]

From his ultra-fit body to his keen mind, find out why the Brokeback Mountain star gets pulses racing. By Serena Kappes

1. HIS CONFIDENCE
Gyllenhaal didn't worry about his heartthrob image when he accepted the role of a cowboy who falls in love with Heath Ledger's character (left) in
Brokeback Mountain. "Anybody would be stupid to pass up a role in which you're going to be guided by the words of a great story," he told Premiere.

2. HIS BODY
Gyllenhaal, 24, jokes that developing his ripped physique – for the Marine movie Jarhead – took little more than sleeping. "The day after I was cast, something happened, and I was huge," the actor says. But seriously: It's really thanks to a grueling regimen that included running and swimming. "Then we went to boot camp," he says.

3. HIS SEX APPEAL
"I like to think of myself as his Mrs. Robinson," Jennifer Aniston, Gyllenhaal's costar in 2002's The Good Girl, said last month when handing out his breakthrough-acting honor at the Hollywood Film Festival (left). Meanwhile, Susan Sarandon, his costar in 2002's Moonlight Mile, says he has "dreamy eyes," and his love interest in that film, Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo, calls him "delicious."

4. HIS STYLE
Gyllenhaal's look is classic – a blazer paired with jeans; a suit at the Hollywood premiere of Jarhead – with a rumpled edge, namely those devil-may-care tousled locks. However, he'd beg to differ: "I have the most horrible haircuts in my movies," he says.

5. HIS SWEETNESS
Though they officially broke up last year, Gyllenhaal and Kirsten Dunst seem more "on" than "off" these days: The pair, who once exchanged promise rings and shared a $1.7 million L.A. home, are often spotted shopping and lunching together. And when he's with her, Gyllenhaal caters to his girl (left, at a Hollywood hotel). "All he wants to do is spend time with her," says a friend.

6. HIS MUSCLE
Whether he's hitting the surf in Malibu or hitting a fly ball at the batting cages, Gyllenhaal is a natural-born athlete. "Exercise is a natural high," he says. He also loves to hit the road. "I'm a big bike rider. I've been inspired by Lance Armstrong."

7. HIS ANIMAL LOVE
Gyllenhaal has opened his heart to several furry friends: The actor and Dunst share custody of their German shepherd mix, Atticus, a pup they adopted from the animal rescue group New Leash on Life, and just this month he added another four-legged pal (left) to his brood.

8. HIS BRAINS
Gyllenhaal, who graduated from L.A.'s Harvard-Westlake School in 1998, studied Eastern religion at New York's Columbia University for two years. And while he'd like to finish his degree one day, for now he's keeping his mind open with nonfiction books such as Salt: A World History. "I have a weird fascination with specifics," he says. "I like the idea of learning a lot about one thing."

9. HIS PEDIGREE
Show business is in his blood: Gyllenhaal's father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal, mom is screenwriter Naomi Foner, and he followed sister Maggie into acting. Plus, his godmother is Jamie Lee Curtis, and Paul Newman gave him driving lessons on a racetrack when he was a teen. Still, he's never taken his family ties for granted. "There's a humility to him," says his Moonlight Mile director, Brad Silberling.

10. HIS MODESTY
Gyllenhaal doesn't resent being in the spotlight. "You're at premieres, people are taking your picture. It's totally fun," he says. And he lacks pretentiousness. "He's so cool and normal, funny and down to earth," says his Day After Tomorrow costar Emmy Rossum. "He's fantastic."

Ściągnę trochę rzeczy z Forum Brokeback Mountain. Na temat Jake'a oczywiście. Sporo z tego znalazłam sama więc mam nadzieję, że nikt nie będzie miał nic przeciwko. na początek mały quiz

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I jeszcze jeden

Mały quiz z DVD Monthly (oczywiście z IHJ)

1. What role does Jake say he is most annoyed bout missing out on after auditioning for it?
2. Is sister Maggie Gyllenhaal older or younger than Jake?
3. Which famous actress is his godmother?
4. And Jake is godfather to the child of which famous couple? ( )
5. Jake has two dogs named after charcters of his favourite book. What is the book?
6. How tall is he?
7. He has famously been in an on again off again relationship with which famous former child star?
8. Jake has known the lead singer of which Grammy-award winning band since Kindergarten?
9. How much was Gyllenhaal reportedly paid for his role in Jarhead?
10. Other than The Day After Tomorrow, what is hishighest grossing movie worldwide?

The ratings are: 1-catatonic, 2-4: Imbelicilc, 5-7: Near idyllic 8-10: Gyllenhaalic.

Tłumaczenie (przepraszam za błędy - to będzie moje tłumaczenie):

1. Jakiej roli Jake najbardziej żałuje że nie dostał po tym jak startował w castingu?
2. Czyjego siostra Maggie jest starsza czy młodsza?
3. Która znana aktorka jest jego matką chrzestną?
4. A dziecka jakiej znanej parey chrzestnym jest Jake? ( )
5. Jake ma dwa psy nazwane na cześć bohaterów jego ulubionej książki. Jaka to książka?
6. Jak wysoki jest Jake?
7. Z jaką znaną dziecięcą gwiazdą Jake bywa (to chyba najlepszetłumaczenie, mam nadzieję, ze wicieo co chodzi) związany?
8. Liedra jakiej grupy, zwycięzców Grammy, jake zna od przedszkola?
9. Jaką kwotę wg prasy Jake dostał za rolę w Jarhead?
10. Poza filmem Pojutrze, jaki film, w którym zagrał Jake zarobił najwięcej na świecie?

Wyniki: 1- beznadziejnie, 2-4: do bani, 5-7: prawie idealnie, 8-10: Gyllenhaalic

I odpowiedzi

1. Christian (rola, którę zagrał Ewan McGregor w Moulin Rouge)
2. 3 lata starsza
3. Jamie Lee Curtis
4. Heath Ledger & Michelle Williams, ich córeczka ma na imię Matilda Rose
5. 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ("Zabić Drozda") - psy nazywają się: Atticus i Boo Radley.
6. 6 stóp dokładnie (czyli wgprzeliczeń około 180 cm, poszukajcie na Forum, bo gszieś to już podawałam - ewentualnie sami przeliczcie).
7. Kirsten Dunst.
8. Maroon 5 (muszę osobisty wkręt - UWIELBIAM ICH!)
9. 6 milinów dolarów.
10. City Slickers (Złoto dla naiwnych) - lub Brokeback Mountain, dla filmu, w którym grał jedną z głównych ról.

To może nie z prasy ale miły akcencik

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXUCMQtXb1Q&search=jake%20gyllenhaal%20palm%20springs

Najbardziej podoba mi się zdanie "(...) this kid's not normal."

Alma napisał:

Ściągnę trochę rzeczy z Forum Brokeback Mountain. Na temat Jake'a oczywiście. Sporo z tego znalazłam sama więc mam nadzieję, że nikt nie będzie miał nic przeciwko. na początek mały quiz

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Ile Wam wyszło? Wink

Bo mi 100%, co jest zastanawiające i poddaje w wątpliwość rzetelnosć tego quizu Smile

[quote="melisa"][quote="Alma"]Ściągnę trochę rzeczy z Forum Brokeback Mountain. Na temat Jake'a oczywiście. Sporo z tego znalazłam sama więc mam nadzieję, że nikt nie będzie miał nic przeciwko. na początek mały quiz

[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Ile Wam wyszło? Wink

Bo mi 100%, co jest zastanawiające i poddaje w wątpliwość rzetelnosć tego quizu Smile

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ja tez miałam 100%, ale mnie akurat wcale to nie dziwi, bo jakos pytania bardzo mi odpowiadały i nie miałam problemów z odpowiedziami. A czy to prawdą, że Jake wybrałby te same odpowiedzi? Who cares?

Taaaaa tylko zebym ja umiała perfekcyjnie angielski. Mam dopiero 14 lat.

trzeba się starać ;]

Chyba tego jeszcze nie wklejałamtutaj więc - prosze bardzo (oczywiście z IHJ):

Celebrity German Magazine - Interview
Translated by: Mongkut and Nass (from the IHJ Community)

Why did you choose the part of a gay cowboy? In parts of America you started a controversy.

It may sound strange, but I knew that my choice was risky. On one hand I had a lot of respect about this film project and on the other I like being risky. As I learned that Ang Lee will be the director I felt much more save. I knew that I could do this together with him. Ang Lee is a very sensitive human being, absolutely the right one to tell a love story between men in the 60s. With my partner Heath Ledger I got along very well and you realize this in the movie. The chemistry between us did fit.

You kiss a man in front of a camera, you have passionate sex with him - how far would you go for a movie part?

The borders depend how beautiful and convincing I think the script is. If a story moves me and I think that the story is more important than me with my existential orientation, then I would do everything to melt together with the movie part. Bodily and external changes are quite easy - more difficult is to live yourself into a new emotion a new world. But Brokeback Mountain is not a movie about a gay obsession but about obsession in general. One of the aims of this movie was to redefine the imagination of love. The movie makes it to look on love from a totally new perspective. This ist big cinema for me.

Do you think you could play the part already when you are only 18?

No, never. Only the thought would be absurd. This has something to do with maturity and that you yourself already had the experience of love. I learned in the meantime how complicated love is. With 18 I would be scared all the time that people will think that I am really gay. Today with 25 I am sure about my sexuality and about my sight towards the world so that I can say I totally committed to the movie.

The numerous awards that you won for Brokeback Mountain demonstrate that you made the right choice - you even got an Oscar nomination.

That's so mad, isn't it? While it happened, I felt like a kid in Christmas. Or at his birthday. I didn't hope for much and got a lot. All these awards comforted me in the thought that I had made the right choice. And besides, there's a wonderful footnote: my godfathers are both gay and still have to hold back a lot in public. Maybe this film and its numerous awards will help bring more understanding and tolerance for gay people.

You were yourself together with Kirsten Dunst for two years. Did love change you?

I don't think so. But I learnt things that showed me that there's much more love around than I believed before. Birth and Death make people much closer. I got to know it with both in my family circle.

You'll have to explain yourself further...

I recently saw people dying and being born. I saw how many people react by building a thicker skin instead of opening up, but also how much other can give in extreme situations. The one who opens their heart will find love - as easy as that. The difficult thing is for each person to find the right one. It's a fight we're all fighting, aren't we? When someone has finally found love, they should hold on it with all their strength. Love must be fought for. I did it and I know: it's worth the fight. That's something I have learned early from my family.

Your father is a director, your mother a scriptwriter - and there's this rumor that Paul Newman gave you a driving lesson...

Yes - it's funny, you wake up with someone who's only 'uncle Paul' for you. When you're fifteen, you get told 'by the way, Uncle Paul is an international star'. And soon your girlfriends tell you: 'wow, Uncle Paul is so sexy!' And you only think: 'please?' That's more or less how the realization came up. Yes, Paul Newman was the one who gave me my first driving lesson. Okay, it was only this one time. My father had to teach me the rest. Dad is the one I owe the most for my driving license - but Uncle Paul got the biggest publicity from it (laughs).

Will there be 'Gyllenhaal's Own' salad dressing after 'Newman's Own'?

It's amusing, that's how I first encountered Paul Newman as a youngster. My mother would work with him at the time and once told me: 'I'm going now, I have to meet Paul Newman'. And I asked: 'but why are you meeting that salad-dressing man?' I was so naive, I only knew him from the sauce bottles. It would be great to see my own sauce beside his in the stores!

Do you see yourself as a part of a new generation of actors that could replace such great ones as Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood?

I don't want to sound arrogant, because you're talking of such important names - but I do feel like that. The feeling is so strong when I see, for example, my sister Maggie and her fiancé Peter Sarsgaard taking this path. I admire them so much. I'm quite a latecomer compared to them. A lot of my friends, including Heath Ledger, belong to this generation. We're bringing in a new style but we're still looking up at these older role models. I believe that we're trying to put something new together, and that's a lot of work. I don't have any idea if that's going to get us doing something as talented and powerful as did older guys such as Hoffman, Newman or Redford - but we're young and fresh, and for what it's worth, ready to set ourselves to work. And that's what matters.

No to jeszcze raz:

In Style Germany - May 2006 Interview
Translated by: Mongkut (from the IHJ Community)

Venice, Hotel Des Bain. With his jeans, boots, grey t-shirt and woolen cap, Jake Gyllenhaal does not quite fit into the luxury atmosphere of the 5-star hotel.

Curious some italian girls are looking from the pool to him.

The 25 old Hollywood star who can be seen from May 4th on together wirh Gwynet Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins in the drama "Proof" friendly says "hello", takes off the cap and goes through his densely hair. His smiling eyes are looking a bit tired - since the breakup with Kirsten Dunst he is known for celebrating parties.

Did you celebrate yesterday?

Would be nice! No, I came from L.A. yesterday afternoon and I feel like a train rolled over me. Jetlag.

At the moment you are making movies non stop, when do you have a break?

The last 2 years were very had, but I am proud that I could work together with such wonderful directors: Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain), Sam Mendes (Jarhead), David Fincher (Zodiac) and John Madden (The Proof). I notice that I reach my borders. But it is like exercising, I create "acting muscles" I am able to do more every time, I am surprised to see what I am able to do.

Regarding exercising, in Jarhead you got muscles like a playgirl model. You are handsome, do you feel like a sex symbol?

(Laughs) No, and it will get very disappointing for you female readers but I already lost my muscles. Zodiac director David Fincher asked me to lose 10 pounds muscles on my arms. I did not carry paper bags because I thought my muscles would never go. But for Jarhead it was important to be well exercised. Because of the nude scenes. With an exercised body I feel in this case more comfortable.

How is it like to undress in front of a camera?

There are moments more impressive. But to be nude in front of a camera means nothing in regard to a mental nudity I do show me to the audience. But for wonderful movies like Brokeback Mountain or Jarhead I like to drop my trousers.

Brokeback Mountain was a very sad lovestory. Did this appeal to you?

Yes. Normal Lovestorys are haveing usually a happy end. Everybody knows that life is not like this. Classical lovestories made like this did never happen in my life. In my life nothing went even. The interesting thing about love is the anarchical touch, the wilderness, the incalculability. Therefore we never stop believing in love. No matter how many disappointments we have to cope with.

I jeszcze jeden:

Stop Babbling About Universal Love
MAXIM FASHION GERMANY MAGAZINE - INTERVIEW
(Thanks Katja and Lauren for translating!)

Jake Gyllenhaal is hungry. That is bad because Hollywood’s it-boy of the moment is said to be a gourmet. The remainings of the guacamole that the Hotel Shutters on the beach in Santa Monica provided as a snack for the interview some hours ago can only be used as a fertilizer now. Gyllenhaal’s stomach is grumbling. His blue eyes are looking covetously at the cookie that is sitting on the saucer of the maxim fashion’s journalist’s latte macchiato glass. “Can I have your cookie?”

For his role as a gay cowboy in ‘Brokeback Mountain’, the 25-year-old was nominated for an Oscar and for approximately every award that Hollywood has to offer. British women declared him second sexiest man on the planet in February (only a canine tooth length behind Brad Pitt) and the American Vogue called him the most stylish celebrity in Hollywood (so simple, so sexy). But the guy is sitting there in his jeans, white t-shirt and sneakers and is chewing on his dry biscuit as if he has just missed his evening meal.

No one would mistake him for a cowboy or for the highly toned marine from Sam Mendes’ ‘Jarhead’. Especially because of the 3 rings he is wearing on his smallest finger. Two of them are golden, with the words ‘create’ and ‘carpe diem’ engraved, the third one with a black diamond is an engagement ring for himself from himself, he says. This way he has nipped all the questions on his on and off relationship with Kirsten Dunst in the bud.

The fact that he is developing a preference for jewellery right after Brokeback Mountain speaks highly of his self assurance. More established leading men than Maggie Gyllenhaal's little brother would have hesitated more before taking off their trousers with Heath Ledger. But Jake is like one of these Japanese fighting fish, which constantly change their colour, says Jarhead director Sam Mendes. If they feel threatened they become a shrill orange colour and if they feel secure they seem to be nearly transparent. “He can play anything, Jake is a natural talent”, confirms Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee, “in the truest sense of the word.”

Lots of praise for someone whose name could not even be pronounced the other day, don’t you think so?

Jake starts laughing at this question. “No, no, my name has rather helped me to stay in people’s minds. More than ever since my sister Maggie has also become known as an actress under the name of Gyllenhaal. The unpronounceable siblings Gyllenhaal (he laughs). Gyllenhaal, like ‘golden hall’ in Swedish.”

Are you of Swedish origin?

According to the legends one of my ancestors caught beetles for the King of Sweden.

A vermin exterminator?

No, he catalogued them. Everything from the rare exotics up to the most common insects. At least that’s what I was told as a child and I’d be devastated if this story wasn’t true.

Your family isn’t bad either. Your Dad is a highly respected director and your Mum almost won an Oscar as a screenplay writer.
Is that the reason why you simply could not refrain from going to Hollywood?

My parents have done their best to keep me away from the insanity called Hollywood. I even majored in Eastern Religions for two terms. Okay, in the end it was only a half-hearted try.

But the fact that you were given your first driving lesson by Paul Newman and that Jamie Lee Curtis is your godmother must have had effect on your life. At the age of 10 you had already scored to the role of Billy Crystal’s son in City Slickers.

Yes, I knew famous people. And I could watch the movies before they even premiered. But as strange as it might sound, that was just normal and unspectacular or me. And no one has ever interfered in my choice of career.

Don’t you sometimes get given good pieces of advice?

If I have ever acted on a piece of advice at all then it’s this one of Eminem’s.

Also a friend of the family?

No, but I like his song which goes like “when you’re in it and you've got it you've got to get as much shit as you can get cause you never know”. This is a kind of philosophy of life.

Apparently Jake is successful with that. He takes what he can get as long as he is hot. He has been doing one movie after another for 3 years, he is praised and presented with awards and he doesn’t seem to be stressed at all, as if he is just playing himself all the time.
In Donnie Darko in 2001 Jake acted brilliantly as a confused teenager who deals with time travelling and meets up with an imaginary rabbit at night. His first blockbuster was The Day after Tomorrow in 2004.

“I really feel good about my career. Although this development has occured in my career, it hasn't yet taken place in my life. At the age of 25 you are still extremely confused. You are still in search of yourself.”

Gossip-blogs take Jake’s ambiguity regarding love and life (“I have never been sexually attracted to a man. But I wouldn’t feel ashamed if it happened”) as an opportunity to question his sexual preferences. No matter if he lived with Kirsten Dunst, someone who talks like that has to be somehow....

Gyllenhaal interrupts: “That’s exactly the problem with our zeitgeist. People are throwing around truisms like “love knows no boundaries”. This is almost the same cliché as the Nike “Just do it” slogan. If you wear Nikes, then you know boundless love - do you know what I mean? People are extremely touched by all the boundless love while they are at the same time condemning love that is unusual.
But if love is unlimited, then it’s unlimited! So just stop babbling about universal love if you don’t mean it! I wouldn’t have minded being naked with Heath on the set (means in front of the cameras). Who cares! Brokeback Mountain is a love story, not a sex movie!

Some time ago you said you would have died if you hadn’t been an actor.

(Jake is shaking his head in disbelief) “God, did I really say that?”

It was then when you were offered roles as torn teenagers. Such as Donnie Darko.

(Jake is laughing) “That’s interesting! I am just wondering how I meant that. Would I drop dead if I stopped working? Would I kill myself?”

So, what would you do? Do you have a better plan now?

I only wanted to emphasize how much I was aching to act. But I also die to cook: I am passionate chef. My porn is my gourmet magazines.

And who is your Pin-Up?

“Alice Waters. She’s a famous chef. I met her on a party in New York and I nearly fainted because I was so excited. That’s never happened to me with any actress before.”