Today Jake stopped by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart to discuss his upcoming film, ‘Prisoners’. Follow the links below to watch the interview and / or download the video in the media section. Enjoy!

When director Denis Villeneuve first approached Jake Gyllenhaal to star as a detective in his new dramatic thriller, “Prisoners,” the actor was skeptical. The movie contained plenty of genre elements — heinous crime, creepy suspect — that could have turned it into pulp cliché. And besides, Gyllenhaal, fresh off the LAPD street story “End of Watch,” had just played a cop.

“The initial conscious response was, ‘Another drama where I played a member of a law enforcement? I don’t know,'” Gyllenhaal said. “But to me, this is a movie about the unconscious.”

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Last night Jake stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to discuss his upcoming film, ‘Prisoners’. Follow the links below to watch the interview and / or download the videos in the media section. Enjoy!

Jake Gyllenhaal is featured on cover of the 10th Anniversary Issue of VMan magazine. Check out the cover photo and new photo shoot in our gallery. To read the full article from the magazine, click behind the cut.

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Director Denis Villeneuve has much to be proud of, as his new thriller earned the respect and adulation of the Toronto International Film Festival community.

During our visit to Toronto, we got a chance to sit in on the press junket, which featured the cast (minus Viola Davis), composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, costume designer Renee April, and director Denis Villeneuve. The chat featured everyone confessing how it felt to deal with the real and imagined loss of their children; what they would do if placed in a similar real-life scenario; how Prisoners truly affected their own family life, and the impact of God and their respective beliefs.

Listen to the conversation in the embedded player below:

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