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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