It’s the kind of game we’ve all played — who’d play you in the movie version of your life? Jeff Bauman got Jake Gyllenhaal. He’s still asked the question a lot these days, as he and the Oscar-nominated actor do press ahead of the release of his biopic “Stronger,” about Bauman’s life in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.
“We get Aaron Rodgers a lot,” Gyllenhaal answers.
“He can’t act — well, I guess he does the [State Farm] commercials,” Bauman adds.
“Yeah, he’s pretty good,” Gyllenhaal says.
Um, isn’t that quite the leap, an NFL star in 30-second ads to the lead in “Brokeback Mountain” and “Nightcrawler?”
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