Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to promote ‘Life’ and ‘Sunday In The Park With George’. Check out the full interview in our video archive. Screen captures are in the gallery.

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On a Thursday in mid-January, an ice storm that will go on to create tornadoes in Texas and a 20-car pile-up in Kansas is stopping off first in California, though admittedly in less apocalyptic fashion. Los Angeles is not a town designed for rain: the candy-coloured buildings seem somehow both drab and gaudy, and as the water drips from their leaves the palms look suicidal.

Standing at the window of a tower block in Burbank, a few miles northeast of Hollywood, surveying the office buildings below and beyond them, the hills, Jake Gyllenhaal sees things differently.

“I think there’s something kind of magical about the way the palm trees come out of the mist,” he says.

And he’s right. It’s true. There is. Perhaps the 36-year-old actor is just pleased to see daylight.

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford discussed starring in the Broadway revival of ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ today on Facebook Live. Watch the interview in our video archive or on the NYT’s Facebook page.

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Jake stopped by Live with Kelly to talk about his upcoming Broadway musical ‘Sunday In The Park with George’. Follow the link below to watch the interview in our video archive. Screencaps are in the gallery.

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Athough he is an Academy Award-nominated movie star, Jake Gyllenhaal has always been a fan of musical theater. In the summer of 2015, he starred in a four-night run of Little Shop of Horrors and then, in October 2016, another four-performance stint of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece about the clash between love and art, Sunday in the Park with George.

“Performing Sunday in the Park was something like pure joy,” Gyllenhaal told me, calling from his apartment in Manhattan before heading to the Hudson Theatre, where he was about to start a tech rehearsal for the newest production of Sunday in the Park, which will open on February 11 until April 23, 2017. “The short run was too short of a time for joy to be on stage,” he continued. “I wanted to prolong joy, so we’re back. They didn’t have a hard time convincing me.”

What’s the first musical you remember seeing?

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