Jake stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night to promote ‘Othello’. Follow the link to watch the interview, or download the videos in our media section. Screen captures are in the gallery.

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Opening night of ‘Othello’ took place last night at the Barrymore Theatre in NYC. Photos of Jake during the curtain call, backstage with his family, greeting former president Joe Biden with the cast after the show, and at the after party have been added to our gallery. ‘Othello’ runs from now through June 8th. Get tickets here!

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We’re talking about faith. Last December, just before Christmas, actor Denzel Washington was baptized and licensed as a minister, and so it hasn’t taken long, chatting about his return to Broadway playing the title role in Othello, for conversation to turn to matters of belief. Not religious, per se; Shakespeare’s great tragedy turns on themes of love and jealousy and betrayal. Perhaps, I muse, Othello’s choice to trust the evidence of his eyes—a planted handkerchief—over his innocent wife Desdemona’s protests that she has never strayed, is a kind of loss of faith, a misguided embrace of rationality over spirit. “Well, sure, he wants proof,” pipes up Jake Gyllenhaal, who co-stars in the production as Iago, planter of the aforementioned handkerchief, “and, Iago keeps leading him back to the handkerchief—look, look!—but the only reason he can manipulate Othello that way is that they have a bond. They’ve fought together, trusted each other with their lives. He knows this is a man with a great sense of faith and love.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal joined Denzel Washington and other cast / crew today at a ‘Othello’ photocall / press day in NY. Several interviews with Jake and Denzel from press day have also been added to our video archive.

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M. Night Shyamalan looks to have his sights set on his next mysterious project and looks to have found some high-profile talent to collaborate with. Sources tell Deadline Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in M. Night Shyamalan’s upcoming film, a supernatural romantic thriller, based on an original story co-created by Shyamalan and global-bestselling novelist Nicholas Sparks. Shyamalan and Sparks are independently writing a screenplay and a novel, respectively, based on the same original love story.

Both projects will be based on the same concept and set of characters, but tailored to their respective mediums. For Shyamalan not only does he land another A-lister to lead his family as so many are always looking to work with him, this also marks the first time he will collaborate with a high-profile writer on an idea, something to surely excite fans of the master storyteller.

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