If you’ve been following the entertainment news lately, you may have overheard a little diddy about Jake Gyllenhaal punching a mirror. While filming Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal became so wound up in a scene that he punched a mirror hard enough to require an emergency hospital visit and a few stitches. When we caught up with the actor earlier today to talk about his heroically damaged performance as Detective Loki in Prisoners, we had to ask about the mirror and his hand, which is still bandaged up.

“We were working a scene and it was an intense scene, and I just went for it,” he told us. “It’s going to be in the movie, too, which is pretty awesome. The feeling that you left it all out on the field, ya know? That you even put a little of your own blood into a project.”

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“Prisoners” may be among the darkest fare to hit theaters this fall, but at the Variety Screening Series showing at the Arclight on Nov. 15, Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve couldn’t keep the laughs at bay.

“You have to know that Jake and I made a promise that we’d make this a serious Q&A tonight,” said Villeneuve, who is a Quebec native, after Gyllenhaal answered the first of several questions in a French accent to razz his director. “But Jake is so silly.”

“What? I’m translating for him,” Gyllenhaal said to excuse his levity. Gyllenhaal was also sporting bandages on his left hand, the result of an injury he sustained on the set of the upcoming thriller “Nightcrawler.”

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Matthew McConaughey, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker, Michael B. Jordan and Josh Brolin are featured on the cover of the November 8th issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Check out scans and the new photo shoot in our gallery. To watch the full (hour long) uncensored interview, click here.

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PBS SoCaL and the Hollywood Reporter present The Hollywood Reporter Roundtables series, which features Hollywood’s leading Academy Award-contender stars and talent in intimate discussions. Moderated by the Hollywood Reporter’s Matthew Belloni and Stephan Galloway, each Roundtable will feature six Oscar contenders, representing the top talent and performances of the year in their field.

The five-part series will begin with an Actors roundtable and will be followed by the Directors roundtable, the Actresses roundtable, the Writers roundtable and the Producers roundtable. Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey, Steve McQueen, Forest Whitaker and Jake Gyllenhaal are among the A-list stars slated to appear.

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Jake Gyllenhaal is the latest actor to drop major weight for a movie, but he says it’s really not that different from prepping for any role.

“I think [I’ve lost] probably a little over 20 pounds, something like that,” the actor, 32, told PEOPLE Monday on the red carpet at the Hollywood Film Awards, where he looked noticeably thinner as he was honored for his role in Prisoners.

While he may look different, his approach hasn’t changed as he prepares for Nightcrawler, Gyllenhaal said.

“It’s no different than getting into character for anything. It’s more about believing where you are and being present where you are,” he said. “Who’s to say what the process is? I have a strange one .. but I love what I do.”

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