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Videos: "Love And Other Drugs" AFI Fest 2010 Screening
Jake Gyllenhaal proud to have worked with Heath Ledger
Actor Jake Gyllenhaal said he was ‘honored’ to get the chance to work with Heath Ledger on ‘Brokeback Mountain.’
Gyllenhaal, 29, starred opposite the actor, who died in January 2008, in the hit movie as well as Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway, who he stars with in new flick ‘Love And Other Drugs.’
He admitted that the new movie is, in part, inspired by ‘Brokeback Mountain.’ Talking about the movie, he said to Britain’s Esquire magazine: “We struck gold with that film. “That movie continues to last, and a large part of that has to do with how extraordinary Heath Ledger was, and what an extraordinary force he was as an actor. “If he were still alive everybody would be clamouring to work with him. I just feel honored to have worked with him and to have called him a friend.”
He added: “This movie that Annie and I made was spawned from that. Love And Other Drugs is the child of Brokeback Mountain. It really is. That’s how it feels to me. I’m desperate to work with Michelle Williams again. That’s what I think is so incredible about having had the luck to have lasted in this business so far. It’s like Seth Rogen was in Donnie Darko. He had half a scene and now he’s this huge star. You know what I mean.”
Jake Gyllenhaal's Hung Up on Erectile Dysfunction
There’s been a bit of a recurring theme in conversations about Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway‘s new film Love and Other Drugs: nakedness.
But there’s been less talk about what Jake learned about a certain pharmaceutical in his role as a Viagra salesman. E! News asked the leading man at the movie’s Hollywood premiere just what he’d learned and if he’s had any, um, experiences of his own…
“[Laughs.] What?! I’m surprised my publicist didn’t pull me with that one. ‘No! He’s not answering that question. No!’
“You know, I’m committed to the role,” Jake continued, “and my character actually does have an experience with Viagra. It’s sometimes used for other things than…dysfun…Can I say erectile dysfunction? E! It stands for erectile dysfunction!”
Gyllenhaal was also quick to point out that the movie isn’t all about two really hot people shedding their clothes.
“Yeah, we make a lot of love in the movie. [But] when we’re not doing that, we’re talking.” Intimate conversations aside, the star did concede, “Most of the time, yes, we are naked.”
Check out the video for more on all that nakedness and how he and his costar Hathaway handled their birthday-suit scenes.
Jake Gyllenhaal Has Sexual 'Rhythm' With Anne
Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed he and Anne Hathaway had a natural ”rhythm” when they filmed sex scenes for their new movie ‘Love and Other Drugs’.
Jake Gyllenhaal says he and Anne Hathaway have a natural “rhythm” when they film sex scenes.
The two stars shoot several raunchy scenes together in new comedy-drama movie ‘Love and Other Drugs’ but Jake already knew what to expect from Anne in the bedroom because they had successfully ‘romped’ in ‘Brokeback Mountain’.
He said: “Annie and I had already had sex on film in ‘Brokeback Mountain’, so I wasn’t too nervous. There’s something about the way Annie and I both work which is inherently very musical. It’s all about rhythm. There’s a rhythm to writing, there’s a rhythm to sports and there’s a rhythm to sex.”
Jake also admits he and Anne spoke in great detail about how their characters in the movie should have sex and insists the conversation got quite steamy.
The 29-year-old screen heartthrob plays pharmaceutical salesman Jamie Randall who ends up bedding Maggie Murdock, played by Anne, when he tries to sell her a sex-enhancement drug for men.
In an interview with the December UK issue of Esquire magazine – on sale Thursday November 4 – Jake said: “We talked about what we thought was sexy, about what were the things that interested us, and through the discussion became pretty intimate with each other.”
Jake – who is believed to be dating Taylor Swift – loves working with 27-year-old Anne because she completely embraces every aspect of her characters.
He explained: “I feel like she’s a comrade. The thing about Anne is that she develops her characters in absolute detail. To the point where she went down to the Lower East Side to buy fluorescent bras for her character. I knew Annie could f***ing kill it.”
Naked Director Photoshopped Out of Love and Other Drugs Poster
Look closely at the poster for the Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway Viagra-and-Parkinson’s comedy Love and Other Drugs. Apparently, director Edward Zwick was actually naked and in the shot with his stars, but got Photoshopped out. At least that’s what we heard at Zwick and Gyllenhaal’s recent New Yorker Festival Q&A with Anthony Lane. According to Zwick, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway had been complaining about how often he’d forced them to do nude scenes. “I said, ‘What do you want me to do?'” said Zwick. “And they said, ‘You take your clothes off.’ And I said, ‘Fine!'” Said Gyllenhaal: “It’s weird how eager you were, too. He was like, ‘That’s it? No problem!’ And then it was off. It terrified me! Like, all of a sudden, this really intimate relationship became way, way weird.” Then, says Zwick, all three of them snapped a naked photo together. “The art director looked at it and said, ‘Get rid of the director,’ and he stripped me out and put Annie’s head on Jake’s shoulder, and that’s the movie poster.”
Also, we learned a few other fun facts about Gyllenhaal:
• He’s masturbated “four or five times in four or five different movies.” In The Good Girl, he said, “I decided my character was going to masturbate with his left hand. That was my character choice.”
• His early acting career mostly consisted of sitting in the background while his older sister Maggie sang and danced for dinner guests. “I did everything wrong, according to her. So I was always banished to the corner,” he said. “Les Mis, when she put that on, I was just a poor person sitting in the corner, begging for money, and she sang and danced all the songs. It’s never changed. It’s still like that to this day.”
• He filmed Donnie Darko when he was having a hard time in college and didn’t know where he was going in life. (He dropped out.) After it screened at Sundance, he said, “My mother and father and sister came up to me afterwards, crying, sort of realizing that I had been trying to say something to them about how lost I was. Something about talking to that rabbit at the time comforted me.”
• He accidentally offended the entire crew of Brokeback Mountain when he showed off his first “bad acting” attempt to play Jack Twist at age 40. “We did the first take and I was doing all this bad acting, like, limping around and my back was achy and I picked up this saddle and I grunted, and half of the crew was 40. They were like, ‘We’re 40. We’re not 80! We do more work than you do, you wimp actor.” Also, looking back on his performance, he really regrets the mustache, though he thinks it helped his acting. “It was hard to eat with that mustache,” he said. “Ultimately, it’s the pain that brings great performances.”
• His dream list of collaborators: Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Gosling, and Michelle Williams, again.
• He said this about Love‘s love scenes: “There’s this weird sense of being watched. If you’ve ever made out with anybody and you know you’re being watched, you can’t help but watch yourself, and that just takes the sexiness out of the whole thing. But we’re performers, so you can make it work. Occasionally I’ve been into it. I won’t talk about with whom.” And then he laughed a lot. But seriously, we need names.
