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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Jake stopped by BET’s 106 & Park to discuss ‘Nightcrawler’. Check out the interview in our video archive.

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Jake sat down with Conan O’Brien to discuss ‘Nightcrawler’. Check out the interview in our video archive.

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Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo stopped by The Queen Latifah Show to talk about their new film, ‘Nightcrawler’. Follow the link below to watch the interview in our video archive. Enjoy!

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Jake participated in a live Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) earlier today to promote his latest film ‘Nightcrawler’ and answer questions from fans! Check it out here.

I think celebrity culture is strange, because celebrities are kind of treated as non-people, rather more like a product or something to be consumed. How does your celebrity status impact your sense of humanity or self? I ask this as someone who is certainly not a celebrity but still sometimes has a hard time tapping into what it means to feel part of humanity, or human.

What I’ve realized is that there’s a real intimacy being in a movie theater with someone in the dark. And I have connections with people whom I see in that context, and the movies that they are in really move me.

But I think it’s really important to see that STORY is the most important thing. Ultimately it’s not the person, but the story that has the greatest impact.

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