Jake Gyllenhaal underwent hefty physical and emotional training for his role as a renegade young cop in David Ayer’s ‘End of Watch’.
After five months spent pulling night shifts with the LAPD preparing for his role in David Ayer’s gritty cop drama End of Watch, Jake Gyllenhaal is sure of one thing: “I don’t think I could ever do a police officer’s job for real,” he sighs.
“The only similarity I can see between an acting job and a real police officer’s work is the ability to observe human behaviour. Obviously the stakes are a lot higher for a police officer,” says the actor who estimates that he went on more than 50 ten-hour shifts with co-star Michael Pena as they prepared for a 22-day shoot in which they attempted to emulate the bond between cops whose lives literally depend on one another.