Jake Gyllenhaal is happy to finally have a day job.

“Being onstage pretty much every night, sometimes twice a day, is a wonderful consistency that I haven’t really been used to,” the 31-year-old actor said of his off-Broadway play, “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet,” which was just extended through late December at the Laura Pels Theatre.

In the play by Nick Payne, Mr. Gyllenhaal, making his New York stage debut, plays Terry, a drifter who drops in on his brother’s family and develops a friendship with his niece, Anna (Annie Funke). Terry scrutinizes the family’s destructive effects on Anna, whose mother (Michelle Gomez) is consumed by her work and whose father (Brían F. O’Byrne) is obsessed with environmental activism. All the while, water slowly seeps onto the stage, eventually submerging actors’ feet and ankles.

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Jake Gyllenhaal has been awake for roughly 24 hours, give or take a few winks he may have caught on the fly. Yet the actor is pulsating with an enthusiasm so palpable you could almost touch it. He apologizes for the charmingly mussed state of his hair, and his messy attire of jeans and sneakers. He gulps water from a reusable bottle and quips that given how sleep-deprived he is, he probably isn’t making much sense.

And when told that his level of energy is, to say the least, awe-inspiring, he shrugs.

“This is not tired. It’s great. It’s nice to be having a movie opening and a play opening. It’s a blessing, not tiring,” says Gyllenhaal, 31.

Indeed, the actor has hit his professional sweet spot. He’s starring in the off-Broadway play If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, and his performance as a drifter has earned him solid reviews from critics.

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“Any time anything inspires you, my opinion is to go after it as hard as you can,” Jake Gyllenhaal told us. That is a very strong quote from a very strong actor.

Jake has taken many risks in his career and it usually works out to his benefit in the end. From playing a mildly disturbed teenager in Donnie Darko to a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, he’s had a disverse Hollywood career. This Friday (September 21), he plays an LAPD officer in South Central Los Angeles. With that said, Jake has continually shown that he lives by his own motto.

In our new interview with Jake, he tells us about his new movie, End Of Watch, in theatres now; how its based on real events; what it was like training with real police officers with real ammunition; and if Jake can finally get out of speeding tickets after portraying law enforcement on the big screen.

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Jake stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night to discuss his latest film, ‘End of Watch’. Follow the links below to watch the interview and / or download the video in the media section.

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Yahoo! Movies rides along with Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as they discuss playing partners and being true to the men in blue of South Central Los Angeles in David Ayer’s bullet bromance “End of Watch.” In a lighter moment, Gyllenhaal joked: “You mix a little ‘Serpico’ and a little ‘Police Academy’ and you get ‘End of Watch.'”

TA: What was the scariest thing about making “End of Watch”?

Jake Gyllenhaal: Honestly, the scariest part of this movie was making sure that we connected as partners in a real way. We emulated the partners that we spent time with on the streets in South Central L.A. in an authentic way. You see actors in movies playing police officers often performing their idea of what a police officer is. And, I think, for us it was about creating something that was like a real ride-along with two police officers, as close as actors can become to being police officers.

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