Our video archive has been updated with 9 new videos from Jake’s appearance at the SXSW Festival on March 12th, including the full ‘A Conversation with Jake Gyllenhaal’ interview, as well as videos from the ‘Demolition’ premiere and press junket. More will be added as they become available, so keep checking back!

Video Links:
– ‘Demolition’ SXSW Interview (Nerdist) (March 2016)
– ‘Demolition’ SXSW Premiere + Q&A Session (3.12.16)
– A Conversation With Jake Gyllenhaal (SXSW) (3.12.16)

When Jake Gyllenhaal was 5 years old, he observed two weeks of rehearsals for the 1988 drama “Running on Empty,” written by his mother, Naomi Foner. “I remember sitting with my mom,” Gyllenhaal said on Saturday afternoon at South by Southwest. “We didn’t have a babysitter or anything like that,” so he’d study actors River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton (whom he had a crush on). “I remember River asking questions about things he wasn’t sure about. I remember all these weird things, and I had no idea who I was around.”

“What I saw,” the actor explained, “was a profound respect for the writer. She happened to be my mother. I tried to carry that through.”

Gyllenhaal shared these memories at a Saturday afternoon conversation in Austin moderated by director David Gordon Green, his collaborator on the upcoming Boston bombing drama “Stronger.”

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Jake Gyllenhaal is turning to television.

The actor-producer and his Nine Stories Productions is teaming with A&E to develop an anthology that each season explores a different American cult persona as well as the provocative nature of belief.

Season one of the untitled drama will focus on Jim Jones, the leader of the cult Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ. The potential series in its freshman season would chronicle Jones’ path and the infamous Jonestown commune where in 1978 more than 900 people died in a mass murder/suicide organized by Jones. It ranks as one of the largest single losses of American civilian lives in history.

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Jake Gyllenhaal, one of the stars of W Magazine’s “Best Performances” issue, talks about his favorite sex scene and reenacts his favorite Tom Cruise moment in ‘Jerry McGuire’ in this newly released video. Check out the clip in our video archive or follow the link below to watch. Screen captures are in the gallery.

Gallery Links:
Screen Captures > Miscellaneous > ‘Jerry Maguire’ Scene Makes Jake Cry Every Time (W Magazine)

Jake’s performance in ‘Southpaw’ is among W Magazine’s best performances of 2015.

Jake Gyllenhaal in Southpaw

‘I had no idea how to box before Southpaw. In an early sparring session, I got hit in the face and then in the body, and that first body shot dropped me. In my work, I try to get into the real space of my characters, but at that moment, I thought, What the hell am I doing this for?’

Gallery Links:
Photoshoots & Outtakes > Sessions > 2015 > Session 009 [W Magazine]

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