Jake Gyllenhaal - C or D?

i know an economist who looks a lot like JG (though without the impeccable physique), i wonder if y'all would go for him.

Mark Harris appraises his career:

Gyllenhaal turned 34 in December, and it’s only in the last couple of years that I think he’s come into his own. This is, in part, a gender issue; we allow actors to grow differently from actresses. We want women to hit hard, and early. Julia Roberts was 22 when Pretty Woman opened; Emma Stone broke through in Easy A at 21; Jennifer Lawrence was romantically paired with Bradley Cooper and Christian Bale onscreen before she was 25. Women don’t get a decade to form themselves onscreen; they need to come ready, and a couple of missteps is all it takes to knock them back to Triple-A. We don’t demand that of our male movie stars; we set the bar lower — sometimes so low that all they have to do is not suck. When Jon Hamm and George Clooney were 25, they were not, in any meaningful sense, Jon Hamm and George Clooney. When Bradley Cooper was 25, he was going on auditions, hoping to get cast in Alias, and when Channing Tatum was 25, he … well, let’s check his résumé; he certainly stood out as “Boy In Church Scene (Uncredited)” in War of the Worlds.

So Gyllenhaal, who starred in his first movie (October Sky) at 18 and had secured cult-fame status by 21 (Donnie Darko) and an Oscar nomination by 25 (Brokeback), is, in some ways, an anomaly — he’s had a woman’s career, except that he’s in his mid-thirties and as far as I can tell, nobody is yet talking about his impending last fuckable day. And there’s no denying that he was given latitude to screw up in his twenties without significant penalty. I’m thinking in particular of two movies, Roland Emmerich’s mercifully all-but-forgotten enviro-disaster pic The Day After Tomorrow (2004) and Mike Newell’s absolutely-flat-out-forgotten Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010). Out of two dozen films, these two stand out as attempts to force Gyllenhaal into a wearily familiar studio movie-star template, almost as if someone said to him (or perhaps as if he said to himself) You’re young, you’re handsome, you look good with your shirt off — this is what you’re supposed to do now.

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/jake-gyllenhaal-career-arc-southpaw-broadway/

It's true that Jake's hit his stride but he still tries too hard.

i really can't see that hypermuscular boxing potboiler (for money).

apparently he was great w/ Ellen Greene in the concert staging of Little Shop.

lol @ Harris admitting it was his idea to get Jake w/shirt off for the 2004 EW cover.

http://image.thefashionisto.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Jake-Gyllenhaal-July-2015-Esquire-Cover-Photo-Shoot-008-800x1105.jpg

I think Tom and Lorenzo had some not-so-nice things to say about that photo shoot.

On a different note, Jake was super-charming on the Mystery Show podcast.

who are Tom and Lorenzo?

Fashion/TV bloggers. Best known for their meticulous close-read recaps of Mad Men.

http://tomandlorenzo.com/2015/07/jake-gyllenhaal-for-esquire-uk-magazine/

oh! Yeah.

not so nice but also not so interesting either. and wrong, he looks fantastic in the photos.

it does look like an in flight mag cover though

Discussing BBM a decade (!) later. He sounds far smarter and more self-assured than he ever did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anGypG5-T-8

from that southpaw movie & training, he should fight mike b Jordan from creed irl on ppv

in leather thongs

Good interview, and I like a lot of what he had to say, but I have to wonder if BBM can ever be spoken about with anything but awed reverence.

I was pretty bored by it. Ang Lee is boring in general.

it does seem like a lot of the discourse around the film has more to do with its particular cultural moment and less to do with it as an actual film or as part of a continuum of films about gay people.

It's a period piece.

Confirmed on a mass cultural scale that women love gay slash.

apparently women and gay men love retro lesbian stuff, hence the dullish and rewarded Carol

to Broadway w/ Sondheim

http://www.playbill.com/article/jake-gyllenhaal-annaleigh-ashford-sunday-in-the-park-moving-to-broadway

He needs it after giving the worst movie performance of his career.

why don't you come up and go with me?

and has anyone heard him sing?

IF it runs thru spring, maybe! I'm planning a trip to Gotham then.

He sang a Dreamgirls tune on SNL a decade ago. He's more in tune with nudity.

i didnt see the movie but it dawned on me that its kinda audacious to portray a titular southpaw boxer as i presume a righty?

it runs Feb 11-Apr 23; don't give me 'a decade ago', i'm sure he's had some training since.

watched southpaw, jake is convincing mostly, fight scenes and otherwise although its so quickly cut that its a bit hard to tell @ times; his inward mumbling even in press conferences is good, betrays his lack of confidence & orphan background; the music is v bad and of course his role was orig written for eminem ~o_o~

I didn't understand why that movie needed to be made
other than for me to learn about the "philly shell" I guess

directed by antoine fuqua, written by kurt sutter, i took a hard pass

I can't: http://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Jake-Gyllenhaal-Shirtless-Pictures-St-Barts-January-2017-42938768

I saw Nocturnal Animals recently. Loved it immensely. But he holds no sexual appeal to me. :-( Well, he does but not in a movie stqr way.

I can't: http://www.broadwayworld.com/videoplay/VIDEO-Jake-Gyllenhaal-Shares-Sings-from-SUNDAY-IN-THE-PARK-WITH-GEORGE-20170207

can Jake bark for me

http://i.imgur.com/TGE1oqA.gif

I can't

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-01/2/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-12/sub-buzz-29045-1483378204-1.jpg?resize=625:827

Ben Brantley, NYT:

“Mr. Gyllenhaal translates the intensity that has characterized his most memorable screen appearances (including Brokeback Mountain and Nightcrawler) into a searing theatrical presence, in which his eyes are his center of gravity. He embodies one of Seurat’s favorite artistic dictums, ‘concentrate,’ with an unwavering focus that seems to consume and illuminate the dark.

“Mr. Gyllenhaal invests every note he sings with the rapt determination of someone trying to capture and pin down the elusive. Watch Seurat at work, dabbing specks of color on his canvas, and listen to the vigor (and rigor) with which he invests the repetition of those colors’ names.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/theater/review-sunday-in-the-park-with-george-jake-gyllenhaal.html

I'd love for him to pin me with rapt determination.

I can't

https://m.popkey.co/8db12c/v49EY.gif

https://m.popkey.co/8db12c/v49EY.gif

tot fine in the Sondheim musical btw

Alfred, yer killing me.

tot fine in the Sondheim musical btw

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, April 27, 2017 2:56 PM

he's not nude in it

Seurat does get down on all fours and bark at one point, though.

he's kinda terrible in Okja, in a prom king tries to be class clown way

http://static.celebuzz.com/uploads/2016/07/gyllenhaal-okja-july18-01-lead-620x413.jpg

is he worse than in Nocturnal Animals?

(I have the screener sitting on my table and can't muster the enthusiasm, not with The Square also beckoning)

I wouldn't get too excited abt The Square

at 142 minutes it's hard