Though Jake Gyllenhaal played the lead role in Stronger, a drama about real-life Boston bombing victim Jeff Bauman, he seems more excited to talk about his role as a producer. “I’ve put two-and-a-half years of my life into this movie, far beyond the performance of it,” he tells Screen International.

“I’ve learned more about myself producing this film and about the film industry than I ever learned before. I’m more proud of it than anything else I’ve ever made, as a result.”

Stronger is the first release from Nine Stories, the production company he founded with Riva Marker in 2015. With projects already lined up with the likes of Luca Guadagnino and Denis Villeneuve, the actor admits this side of the business comes easily to him.

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For Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Jake Gyllenhaal and Margot Robbie sat down to talk about playing real-life people, separating fame from their personal lives, and more. Follow this link to watch the full interview, or download the video in our media section. Scans have also been added to the gallery.

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– Actors On Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal & Margot Robbie (2017)
Magazine Scans > 2017 > Variety Magazine | November 28

Earlier this month, The Envelope gathered some of the industry’s top actors not just to talk about their current, award-contending films but to take the temperature of a community rattled by revelations of sexual harassment and assault claims against the likes of movie titan Harvey Weinstein and others.

Beyond that difficult subject, Times film writers Amy Kaufman and Mark Olsen led Gary Oldman, Hugh Jackman, James Franco Jake Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Renner and relative newcomer Timothée Chalamet through discussions of the best working environment on set, obligations to the real people an actor portrays, giving the wacky an emotional depth and, yes, Chalamet’s peach scene.

Here is an excerpt from their conversation edited for length and clarity.

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Jake recently spoke with Annette Insdorf at 92nd Street Y, and GoldDerby.com, to discuss his latest film, ‘Stronger’. Follow the links below to watch the interviews, or download the videos in our media section.

Video Links:
– 92Y Presents: Jake Gyllenhaal In Conversation (11.19.17)
– ‘Stronger’ Interview (GoldDerby.com) (Nov 2017)

Jake Gyllenhaal rarely attends fashion shows. He estimates he’d been to only one before he stepped into the world that Raf Simons created for Calvin Klein’s spring/summer 2018 fashion show this past July—a show that proved to be the hottest ticket of New York Fashion Week: Men’s. That’s why, as he made his way in and out of the venue, some folks took note. What is he doing here?

That question was answered last month, when Gyllenhaal’s campaign for Calvin Klein Eternity was revealed. Simons was named creative director of the famed American fashion house in August of 2016 to much fanfare, and has since set about reinvigorating the label. The new fragrance campaign—starring Gyllenhaal alongside model Liya Kebede and four-year-old actress Leila—is part of that movement to explore new territory. Unlike pretty much every other fragrance ad you’ve ever seen, it’s subtle. Quiet. And instead of focusing on sex, it focuses on the idea of family.

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