Jake stopped by Live with Kelly and Michael to discuss his latest film, ‘End of Watch’. Follow the links below to watch the interview and / or download the videos in the media section.

To prepare for his role as a cop in his new film “End of Watch,” Jake Gyllenhaal spent five months trailing active-duty Los Angeles Police Department officers. While many of his adoring fans would pay to spend that much intimate time with the actor, Gyllenhaal said the cops weren’t nearly as starstruck.

“They were definitely skeptical — it took us a while to become friends with the police officers that we were on ride-alongs with,” the 31-year-old said Monday night at the premiere of the film, which co-stars Michael Peña. “Let’s be honest: We’re something else to take care of in the back of that car. You start spending time with them every night, and that’s a big burden to put on the police officers.”

In the movie, which has generated largely positive reviews, Gyllenhaal and Peña star as partners whose bond deepens as they work the gritty streets of South Central L.A. The process of playing a cop altered Peña’s attitude toward the LAPD, the 36-year-old said.

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Jake called in to On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Tuesday to talk about his new movie ‘End of Watch’, getting tased, proper house guest etiquette, and would he want to play the lead role in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey?’

‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Movie
There have been rumors that Jake name is being thrown around to play Christian Grey in the “Fifty Shades of Grey” movie. “That’s super flattering. I have not heard that, but if that’s true that’s a nice thing, always nice to be considered,” Jake says. So, would he be interested in playing the sexy lead? “Of course, I always want to work!”

On Staying at Jerry Seinfeld’s
“We showed the movie [End of Watch] over in the Hamptons. That was an interesting crowd, because it was very different form the crowd that’s in the movie and the world that you experience in the movie. Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld hosted the screening, because they’re fans of the movie, they’ve seen the movie before they just wanted to show a lot of people particularly in their world that movie.

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Jake stopped by CBS This Morning to discuss his latest film, ‘End of Watch’. Follow the link below to watch the interview and / or download the video in the media section!

While promoting ‘End of Watch’ at TIFF, Jake spoke with Moviefone about the intense training he went through for the role, missing out on two enormous superhero francises and his 2007 David Fincher movie, ‘Zodiac’.

I feel like we’ve never seen a cop movie from this perspective before — that first person point-of-view.

I think the point of the movie was where the audience can go on a ride-along with two cops, where you got to know them as human beings and really get inside what it feels like to be a police officer. That’s what I think makes it original. And the relationship and the heart between these two guys is everything.

Were you the one holding the camera during the point-of-view scenes?

Yeah, I shot every day.

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