Nuke the Fridge News was invited to a series of roundtable discussions at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills in order to interview cast members as well as the director for the upcoming crime/drama/thriller “Nightcrawler.” Jake Gyllenhaal spiced things up a bit with his analysis of his character Lou Bloom. He also discussed how he prepared for the role, how he saw the news and L.A. in a different light and more.
Q: What did you tap into to create Lou? He is such an indelible character? A demurral character with shades of a De Niro camp comedy or maybe even Dustin Hoffman from “Rain Man.” It couldn’t have been easy to achieve.
Jake Gyllenhaal: Not easy in the movie sense easy. I like to separate the two. Like life easy and movie easy and life hard and movie hard, but no, it wasn’t easy in that sense. There was a lot of preparation, but there were a lot of great words. There was just f***ing great dialogue that was written on the page and I said to the ‘T.’ You know, punctuation exactly memorized it like a play.
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