A behind the scenes video of Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of his photoshoot for the November 20th issue of The Wrap has been released. Check out the clip in our video archive. Jake also sat down for an exclusive podcast with The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman. You can listen to the 38-minute interview here.

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Screen Captures > Photoshoot Sessions > The Wrap (November 20, 2015 Issue)

Back on November 18th Jake participated in a 90-minute discussion for THR’s ‘Hollywood Masters’ series, which took place at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Photos from the event have now been added to the gallery. A clip from Jake’s interview has also been added to our video archive.

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Public Appearances > 2015 > The Hollywood Masters: Jake Gyllenhaal

Those who recall Jake Gyllenhaal’s breakthrough performance as “Donnie Darko” in 2001 might have a tough time reconciling that little-boy-lost character with his pumped-up prizefighter in this year’s “Southpaw.” The latter work conjured the kind of body-and-soul transformations associated with Robert De Niro in his prime, or another child actor-turned-leading man, Christian Bale.

In his review for Variety, Justin Chang wrote: “You can practically smell the blood, the sweat and the fierce actorly commitment rising from Jake Gyllenhaal’s bruised and tattooed body.”

Gyllenhaal’s role in “Nightcrawler,” barely a year prior, went in the opposite direction physically, with his nocturnal prowling cameraman with a nose for carnage looking gaunt to the point of sickly.

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Jake is featured on the cover of The Wrap’s November 20th issue. Scans have been added to the gallery.

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Magazine Scans > 2015 > The Wrap Magazine | November 20
Photoshoots > Sessions > Photoshoots From 2015 > Session 008 [The Wrap Magazine]

Ten years after Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the landmark Brokeback Mountain — and almost eight years after the death of co-star Heath Ledger — the actor said he had no qualms about taking the role when it came his way.

“It’s one of the most beautiful scripts I’ve ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine — before we even shot the movie — and always sort of alluring to me,” Gyllenhaal recalled.

“Heath was always somebody who I admired,” he continued. “He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way. I wasn’t quite sure where he came from. I mean, I know he’s from Perth, but I wasn’t really quite sure where he came from, and I think that’s the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary. And when that opportunity came, I was a young actor. I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m in.’

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