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The 31-year-old actor, who took on five months of training and shaved his head for the role, was apparently so convincing with his insider lingo, his director, David Ayer, said a bonafide street team couldn’t tell the difference.

In an interview with Yahoo! News, the filmmaker, who also wrote the cop movie “Training Day,” described the reality-style setup that led to the deception.

“The movie’s ‘found footage’ shooting style required the camera crew to stay out of sight,” Ayer said. Thus, Gyllenhaal and actor Michael Peña, his partner in the film, performed their scenes unexposed.

“There were times where Jake and Mike are in uniform in a marked police vehicle, and there were no cameras to indicate a movie was being filmed.”

Accordingly, the actors appeared to be policemen on the clock, and Gyllenhaal took advantage of the disguise.

Ayer explained, “Cops in L.A. will do a hand sign with four fingers to say ‘everything’s good.’ Jake threw a ‘code four’ at some LAPD cops rolling by and they threw a ‘Code Four’ back. I don’t think they had any idea it was Jake Gyllenhaal!”

Shot on the streets of Los Angeles over five weeks, the film, opening in theaters Sept. 28, is the story of two young police officers who get in over their heads with a drug cartel. The film is inspired by true stories from a former LAPD gang officer. According to Yahoo!, Ayer said the cartel in the movie is his creation based on actual crime rings.

“There is a lot of cartel activity in the U.S., and Los Angeles especially because we’re close to the border,” noted the director. “It is not uncommon for LAPD officers in South L.A. to run into cartel-affiliated people.”

The first trailer for the film was released through Yahoo! on May 3, and from the looks of it, there’s a lot of shooting, a lot of banging down doors, and a very brutal murder that leads to trouble. In an interview with E! Online in August, Gyllenhaal and Ayer detailed the actor’s training regimen more specifically, noting the prep worked involved, “ride-a-longs, “tactical training and fight training” nearly every day.

Gyllenhaal told E!, “My goal for this is to not have any of that stuff [Hollywood] in the mix. Ironically when you show up in a police uniform in a police car, people don’t tend to recognize you. It is, in a way, like a batsuit. It has that effect.”

The LAPD might agree.

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If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet will begin performances August 24, 2012 and officially open on September 20, 2012 at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre / Laura Pels Theatre (111 West 46th Street). This is a strictly limited engagement of 13-weeks through November 25, 2012.

Director Michael Longhurst will be making his New York directorial debut having most recently directed Nick Payne’s critically acclaimed play Constellations.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Terry) made his stage debut starring in Kenneth Lonergan’s revival of This is Our Youth, on London’s West End. For his performance he won an Evening Standard Theater Award for “Outstanding Newcomer.”

“Nick Payne is an exciting young voice in the British Theatre, and I’m thrilled to have this opportunity to introduce him to American audiences. I was first familiar with Nick through his play Constellations, a brilliant piece directed by Michael Longhurst that just completed an acclaimed run at the Royal Court. When I read ‘If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,’ I knew that not only did Nick have great range as a playwright, but that this was a perfect fit for the Laura Pels Theatre.

Jake Gyllenhaal loves this play and the role of Terry, and I couldn’t be happier that he has chosen to make his American stage debut with us. The Steinberg Center has been an off-Broadway haven for new plays and playwrights from Lynn Nottage to Patrick Marber to Stephen Karam. I think Nick Payne will prove to fit quite well in that line and I am equally excited that this will be Michael Longhurst’s New York directorial debut.”

Provocative, insightful and laced with fresh humor, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet is an entertaining look at a regular family stuck somewhere between knowing what the problem is… and doing something about it.

Fifteen-year-old Anna’s weight makes her a natural target for bullies. When her mom transfers Anna to the school where she teaches in order to protect her daughter, it only makes things worse. Anna’s environmentalist dad, determined to finish his new book and save the planet, is no help at all. Just as Anna gets suspended for retaliating with a head-butt, her estranged uncle Terry (Jake Gyllenhall) arrives unannounced. A heartbroken drifter with the mouth of a sailor, Terry reaches out to Anna in a way that no one ever has. Their unexpected friendship sends her parents’ rocky marriage into a tailspin as the whole family wonders, what–or who–really needs saving?

Ticket Information: Receive first access to tickets: Subscription packages of 5 shows or more for the 2012-13 Roundabout season, including If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, are available at www.roundabouttheatre.org or by calling (212)719-1300. Call the Patron’s Desk at (212)719-9393 x301 to become a Major Donor and get the best seats. All current subscribers and donors will receive an opportunity to access tickets in advance of the general public. Tickets will go on sale to the general public this summer.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet will play Tuesday through Saturday evening at 7:30PM. with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM.

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