How serious is Jake Gyllenhaal about acting? Well, the 35-year-old actor and Oscar nominee (for Brokeback Mountain) spent five months in the back of a police car, on ride-alongs with the Los Angeles police to get in character for the 2012 cop film End of Watch. He lost 40lb by eating nothing but kale salads and running 15 miles a day for six months to play a skeletal video journalist in 2014’s Nightcrawler.

He trained so hard for last year’s boxing movie Southpaw, working out six hours a day for five months (including 2,000 sit-ups a day), that he decided his girlfriend at the time, the model Alyssa Miller, was getting in the way, so he dumped her, preferring instead to focus . . .

“No, no, no! That is just not true!” Gyllenhaal interrupts, half-giggling with embarrassment. “Look, I love my work, but my life comes first. I was intensely focused when preparing for that movie, yes. But, no. Haha. No.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by the Empire magazine headquarters in London earlier this month to discuss his new film, ‘Nocturnal Animals’. Listen to the interview below. Jake’s part begins around the 1 hour mark.

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Earlier this month Jake stopped by the BBC Studios in London to promote ‘Nocturnal Animals’. His interview with Shaun Keaveny at BBC Radio 6 aired earlier this morning. You can listen to the full interview here, or in our archive. In case you missed them – check out photos of Jake outside the BBC Studios in our gallery.

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Paparazzi Photos > 2016 > October 3 – Outside The BBC Studios In London

Jake is featured on the cover of the latest issue of British ‘GQ Style’ magazine – on newsstands now. The spread includes a brand new photoshoot and interview with Jake. Scans have been added to our gallery.

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Magazine Scans > 2016 > GQ Style (UK) | Autumn / Winter

Jake Gyllenhaal is not just an Oscar-nominated actor with a legendary work ethic and a drop-dead smile. He is also a Jewish boy from LA, a Swedish nobleman, godson of Paul Newman, has studied Buddhism at Columbia with Robert Thurman, and is known for transforming himself physically and emotionally for his roles.

Tom Ford is not just a fashion designer and film director, he is a 21st-century Renaissance man. After revolutionising fashion, he moved effortlessly into film with unprecedented success: his first film, A Single Man, was nominated for a raft of awards including the Best Actor Oscar nomination for lead Colin Firth. Now the two have teamed up for Mr Ford’s sophomore feature, Nocturnal Animals, with Jake Gyllenhaal taking the dual role of Edward Sheffield, a writer, and Tony Hastings, the main character from Edward’s book who suffers an unfortunate fate with his family while going on their summer holidays.

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