Jake Gyllenhaal helped plant a apple tree at the first NYC Edible Schoolyard.

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Appearances from 2010 > Opening of NYC’s First Edible Schoolyard

Jake Gyllenhaal hosted a fundraiser dinner party for Edible Schoolyards on October 13th.

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Appearances from 2010 > Fundraiser Dinner Party For Edible Schoolyard NYC

One of the most respected film festivals in the US, the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest announced on Wednesday its eight red carpet gala screenings for the upcoming 24th annual event in Los Angeles, November 4-11.

The opening night selection is the world premiere of Love and Other Drugs, directed by Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond) and starring Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal as mismatched lovers. Black Swan starring Natalie Portman and directed by Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) will close the eight-day event.

For the Tribute Selection, Toronto festival winner The King’s Speech will honor director Tom Hooper (The Damned United, John Adams) and star Colin Firth as the stuttering King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as the Australian speech therapist. The film will be released in theaters November 26. Firth is considered an early candidate for an Oscar for this role.

The premier film festival attracts film industry players and actors with the American Film Market occuring concurrently in nearby Santa Monica and is attended by 7,000 people from 70 countries. AFI Fest is the only US film festival with a FIAPF (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films) accreditation.

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Look closely at the poster for the Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Viagra-and-Parkinson’s comedy Love and Other Drugs. Apparently, director Edward Zwick was actually naked and in the shot with his stars, but got Photoshopped out. At least that’s what we heard at Zwick and Gyllenhaal’s recent New Yorker Festival Q&A with Anthony Lane. According to Zwick, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway had been complaining about how often he’d forced them to do nude scenes. “I said, ‘What do you want me to do?'” said Zwick. “And they said, ‘You take your clothes off.’ And I said, ‘Fine!'” Said Gyllenhaal: “It’s weird how eager you were, too. He was like, ‘That’s it? No problem!’ And then it was off. It terrified me! Like, all of a sudden, this really intimate relationship became way, way weird.” Then, says Zwick, all three of them snapped a naked photo together. “The art director looked at it and said, ‘Get rid of the director,’ and he stripped me out and put Annie’s head on Jake’s shoulder, and that’s the movie poster.”

Also, we learned a few other fun facts about Gyllenhaal:

• He’s masturbated “four or five times in four or five different movies.” In The Good Girl, he said, “I decided my character was going to masturbate with his left hand. That was my character choice.”

• His early acting career mostly consisted of sitting in the background while his older sister Maggie sang and danced for dinner guests. “I did everything wrong, according to her. So I was always banished to the corner,” he said. “Les Mis, when she put that on, I was just a poor person sitting in the corner, begging for money, and she sang and danced all the songs. It’s never changed. It’s still like that to this day.”

• He filmed Donnie Darko when he was having a hard time in college and didn’t know where he was going in life. (He dropped out.) After it screened at Sundance, he said, “My mother and father and sister came up to me afterwards, crying, sort of realizing that I had been trying to say something to them about how lost I was. Something about talking to that rabbit at the time comforted me.”

• He accidentally offended the entire crew of Brokeback Mountain when he showed off his first “bad acting” attempt to play Jack Twist at age 40. “We did the first take and I was doing all this bad acting, like, limping around and my back was achy and I picked up this saddle and I grunted, and half of the crew was 40. They were like, ‘We’re 40. We’re not 80! We do more work than you do, you wimp actor.” Also, looking back on his performance, he really regrets the mustache, though he thinks it helped his acting. “It was hard to eat with that mustache,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s the pain that brings great performances.”

• His dream list of collaborators: Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Gosling, and Michelle Williams, again.

• He said this about Love‘s love scenes: “There’s this weird sense of being watched. If you’ve ever made out with anybody and you know you’re being watched, you can’t help but watch yourself, and that just takes the sexiness out of the whole thing. But we’re performers, so you can make it work. Occasionally I’ve been into it. I won’t talk about with whom.” And then he laughed a lot. But seriously, we need names.

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I’ve added 97 HQ pictures from various events in 2007 and 2009. Enjoy!

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Appearances from 2007 > 2nd Rome Film Festival – Rendition Photocall
Appearances from 2007 > 2nd Rome Film Festival – Rendition Premiere
Appearances from 2007 > 18th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
Appearances from 2007 > 32nd Annual Toronto International Film Festival – Rendition Premiere
Appearances from 2007 > 32nd Annual Toronto International Film Festival – Rendition Press Conference
Appearances from 2007 > 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards
Appearances from 2007 > 2007 BAFTA Awards
Appearances from 2009 > 2009 Vanity Fair Oscar