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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Jake stopped by The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon to discuss his latest film, ‘Nightcrawler’. He also participated in a game of ‘Water War’ with Jimmy. Follow the link below to watch the videos. Enjoy!

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Jake Gyllenhaal plumbs even deeper depths in Nightcrawler, a timely look at today’s in-your-face media. (Interview and photo courtesy of Deadline.com.)

What appealed to you about taking on this film, as the star as well as producer?

This character was beautifully written. The dialogue is pretty extraordinary. And as soon as I read it, just even the style—which if you read the script itself—was an amazing read. I found it satirical. In fact, the irony of it is that I think it’s incredibly funny. I think there are not many movies that are subversively communicating an idea through a character. I think we all have a part of ourselves who is a little bit like Lou. We all (should) feel a little complicit in creating Lou because he’s a product of our need to consume. I speak for myself, and I definitely was complicit in creating Lou.

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Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show to talk about his latest film, ‘Nightcrawler’. Follow the links below to watch the interview and / or download the video in our media section. Enjoy!

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Nuke the Fridge News was invited to a series of roundtable discussions at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills in order to interview cast members as well as the director for the upcoming crime/drama/thriller “Nightcrawler.” Jake Gyllenhaal spiced things up a bit with his analysis of his character Lou Bloom. He also discussed how he prepared for the role, how he saw the news and L.A. in a different light and more.

Q: What did you tap into to create Lou? He is such an indelible character? A demurral character with shades of a De Niro camp comedy or maybe even Dustin Hoffman from “Rain Man.” It couldn’t have been easy to achieve.

Jake Gyllenhaal: Not easy in the movie sense easy. I like to separate the two. Like life easy and movie easy and life hard and movie hard, but no, it wasn’t easy in that sense. There was a lot of preparation, but there were a lot of great words. There was just f***ing great dialogue that was written on the page and I said to the ‘T.’ You know, punctuation exactly memorized it like a play.

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