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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Jake sat down with Conan O’Brien to talk about his latest film, ‘Nocturnal Animals’. Check out the interview in our video archive and / or download the video in our media section. Screen captures are in the gallery.

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Jake Gyllenhaal (Donnie Darko, Nightcrawler) chats with Chris [Nerdist.com] about his desires to direct, being mindful in life and his new film Nocturnal Animals. He also talks about what he likes about working on set, the feedback from Brokeback Mountain and they talk about what is happening in America these days!

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Jake is featured on the cover of the Winter 2016 issue of DuJour magazine. The spread includes a brand new photoshoot and interview with Jake. Check out the article behind the cut and the pictures in our gallery.

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In Nocturnal Animals, the devil is in the refined details. Tom Ford’s sophomore directing effort (in theaters Friday in New York and Los Angeles; additional cities Nov. 23 and opens nationwide Dec. 9), his follow-up to 2009’s A Single Man, infuses a Hitchcockian thriller with modern-day opulence, telling a story of death and heartbreak.

Susan (Amy Adams) is a wealthy (if miserable) married art gallery owner living a carefully curated life in L.A. who receives a manuscript written by her ex-husband Edward (Jake Gyllenhaal). She — and the story — soon disappear inside the book’s plot, in which a fictional family experiences a brutal carjacking on the backroads of Texas at the hands of a psychotic killer (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).

Adams shot her designer-clad scenes in Los Angeles, separately from the Texas carnage, with her character decked out in Cartier, Louis Vuitton and Chanel.

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