He’s been under the coveted directorial thumbs of Ang Lee and Jim Sheridan, but now Jake Gyllenhaal is doling out advice for aspiring actors and filmmakers.

A humorous Gyllenhaal appeared at the Apple Store in SoHo Friday evening with co-star Michelle Monaghan and director Duncan Jones in promotion of their new movie, “Source Code.” The panel discussion was followed by a Q&A session with the mostly teenage audience, delighting passersby who congregated en masse on the store’s second floor.

When asked by a high schooler if acting was a viable career path, Gyllenhaal immediately quipped, “Is there something wrong with you?”

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JAKE GYLLENHAAL is glad his parents stopped him accepting major Hollywood roles as a youngster, because he was able to cherish his childhood and realise the importance of family.

The actor had appeared in three films by the time he was a teenager, but his parents, director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, refused to allow their son time off school to star in 1992 Disney movie The Mighty Ducks.

He tells the Telegraph magazine, “That did happen a lot (turning down roles). Or rather, it happened a few times that I remember very clearly. Which felt like a lot when I was a little kid. But I think they knew it can be a dangerous business, particularly for a child.”

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Actor Jake Gyllenhaal freaked out when he saw his body double in new movie ” Source Code”.

The 30-year-old star plays an injured helicopter pilot, Captain Colter Stevens, who is enabled by scientists to live the last eight minutes of another man’s life in order to try and stop a bomb in the science-fiction thriller, reports contactmusic.com.

And the actor admits he found it disturbing to be introduced to the prosthetic version of his character, which had electrodes wired up to ‘his’ exposed brain.

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If Jake Gyllenhaal had just eight minutes left to live, it’s safe to say the media-shy actor probably wouldn’t spend that precious time with a journalist. “I think if I was in that situation, I would call my family and it wouldn’t be to apologise but it would be, hopefully, to have a good laugh. To hear them laugh because I love that with my family. And if that eight minutes came right now, I’d be, ‘Sorry I got to go. I’m gonna have to cut our interview short’,” he laughs.

If it seems like a curious conversation to have with one of Hollywood’s most sought-after young leading men then it’s because it’s pertinent to the many questions posed by Duncan Jones’s thought-provoking sci-fi thriller, Source Code.

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