“Nightcrawler,” Jake Gyllenhaal plays a man whose drive for success leads him to do despicable things. As Louis Bloom — a freelancer who sells graphic video footage of crimes and accidents to local news stations — he drives recklessly through the L.A. streets, sexually blackmails a colleague and even tinkers with crime scene evidence to make a shot better.

He seems beneath contempt, but Gyllenhaal felt something pulling him toward the dark character.

Jake Gyllenhaal was born into Hollywood royalty. Jamie Lee Curtis is his godmother, Paul Newman is his godfather, his father is a director and his mother a producer-screenwriter. When he was 11, Gyllenhaal made his big-screen debut in “City Slickers.” Here is a look at his career since then.

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Dan Gilroy stopped by MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ show to discuss ‘Nightcrawler’.

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Jake sat down with Jon Stewart to discuss ‘Nightcrawler’. Check out the interview in our video archive.

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Today Jake Gyllenhaal and writer / director Dan Gilroy participated in a ‘Nightcrawler’ discussion during AOL’s BUILD Speaker Series at the AOL Studios in New York. You can watch the full 30-minute interview here.

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For weeks now, it feels like Jake Gyllenhaal has been just about everywhere, talking with just about everyone about his new film Nightcrawler, opening today. He was on Conan, reminiscing about his elaborate childhood Halloween costumes, and on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, literally getting the fuck scared out of him, and on The Tonight Show, throwing water in Jimmy Fallon’s face for some reason.

But earlier this month, over lunch at a lively Italian café in downtown Manhattan, the 33-year-old actor took a break from shooting his newest film — the contemporary drama Demolition — to speak with BuzzFeed News. “I love this movie,” he said of Nightcrawler while diving into a bowl of pasta. “And I’m trying to promote it every way I can. I’m literally fitting it in lunch breaks. ‘Are we shooting in Manhattan on Monday? Can you run up to this thing and do an interview?’ And I’m like, ‘Yes! Whatever we need to do.’”

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