FashionWeekDaily spoke with Jake at the Fall Harvest Dinner to discuss veggies, farmers and besties.

It’s a pleasure meeting you. You’re one of our favorite actors in the world.
That’s very nice of you!

Tell us about your involvement with the Edible Schoolyard.
I’ve been involved with them for a couple of years. I’m titled by Alice Waters, the ambassador of the school yard. I got involved because the dinner table was always a place, since I was a young child, where we got to get together, and I actually got to know my family there more than any other place in the world. I grew up growing my own food in our family garden. One of my best friends is a farmer. It’s been a primary focus of my life.

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Jake was spotted out for lunch with his ‘End of Watch’ co-star America Ferrera in NYC yesterday.

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Jake Gyllenhaal, Justin Beiber, Seal, Joe Jonas, Adam Garcia and George Clooney are among the celebrities opening up on the mysterious world of falling in love. The November issue of Cosmopolitan explores how men’s attitudes to falling in love changes, from their formative years to being a fully-fledged male.

Jake Gyllenhaal, 30
“The wonderful part about falling love is the time spent naked…the times spent intimate like that.”

Full interviews appear in the November issue of Cosmopolitan UK, on sale now.

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Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed that he enjoys working in the film industry, as he gets the opportunity to “tell stories” he cares about.

The 30-year-old has starred in over 15 movies since his mainstream debut in 2001’s Donnie Darko. His varied roles include cowboy Jack Twist in Brokeback Mountain and crime author Robert Graysmith in Zodiac.

Gyllenhaal told OK! magazine that he prefers to choose characters that interest him and tell relevant stories.

“I’m in the business of playing characters. That’s what I’m in,” he explained. “That’s what I want to try and do.

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The 30-year-old hunk has enjoyed a successful film career since shooting to fame in cult hit Donnie Darko in 2001, and has managed not to let fame go to his head.

Jake credits his down-to-earth nature to being mocked on film sets, which he thinks stops all actors from becoming big headed.

“Being on a movie set, there’s just no way you won’t end up a rounded kind of person as everybody gives each other sh*t all the time. That’s what makes movies,” he laughed to the British edition of OK! magazine.

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