Jake Gyllenhaal
Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he has a question for them: "Before we start, do you have insurance?" And after savagely beating each up, he kindly drives them to the hospital.
Dalton — played by a...
Jake Gyllenhaal was driving when a COVID-19 supervisor called and told him to pull the car over.
This was in November 2020, when U.S. cases were skyrocketing and Gyllenhaal was days away from starting shooting on "The Guilty," a thriller about a demoted Los Angeles police detective (...
It's fall of 1960 in Montana when we meet the Brinson family in "Wildlife ," a carefully considered and deeply moving adaptation of a Richard Ford novel about a fracturing marriage and the teenage son witnessing it all.
Things don't start out bad, or don't seem to be. Jerry Brinson (Jake...
As the cast and makers of "Stronger" collectively rose to take a bow after the film's Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Jake Gyllenhaal realized that Jeff Bauman, whom he plays in the film and who wears prosthetic legs, was still sitting, overwhelmed with emotion.
"Jake was...
Director Antoine Fuqua got a distressing call early in pre-production for the boxing drama "Southpaw."
It was Terry Claybon, a boxing expert who's trained Fuqua for years. He'd just met with Jake Gyllenhaal to see if the actor could fight and he didn...