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Am I the only one excited about this movie? It looks promising and like a movie I’d go see even without Jake in it.

I love my work and care about it,” Jake Gyllenhaal said in this recent interview. “But I’m beginning to have a great sense of humor about it because I just don’t feel like there’s any need to take it all that seriously.”

With that declaration, Jake proceeded to give mostly tongue-in-cheek answers to questions. The actor’s jesting mood also stemmed from the movie he was promoting, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.” After all, when you’re talking about a movie that was adapted from a video game, you can’t be all that serious. But the film, directed by Mike Newell (“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”) and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, will probably make tons of money.

Jake said he made “Prince of Persia,” which co-stars Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, and Alfred Molina, so moviegoers will “have a good time…This movie awakened that kid in me again. I made it for families. My aunt called me the other day and she was like, ‘Hey, this is a movie that your cousins can finally see.”

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AWARD-WINNING movie star Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed his true ambition – to play for the USA in the World Cup.

The Brokeback Mountain actor comes from a renowned showbiz family – his dad Stephen is a director, mum Naomi is a screenwriter, sister Maggie is a famous actress and his godparents are Jamie Lee Curtis and the late Paul Newman.

But, as a kid, the star of new swashbuckler Prince Of Persia only wanted to shine on the football pitch.

He still has that burning love for the beautiful game and is excited about the World Cup kicking off in South Africa next month.

He told the Sunday Mail: “There is a very early entry in my diary, from when I was six, and it says ‘soccer is my life!’ “I played school soccer and it became my obsession.

“Of course, I’ll be watching the games. I would really like to go to the World Cup finals.”

The USA are in the same group as England, Algeria and Slovenia, and the 29-year-old is rooting for his nation to make the next stage of the competition.

He said: “For the first time I can say that America is my team and not have people roll their eyes or nod in a kind of pitying way.

“I think we have a great team and real potential to definitely show something for the first time.” Sports-mad Jake – he regularly goes for 12-mile runs or works up a sweat on demanding cycling circuits – is in London for tonight’s world premiere of Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time.

Inspired by a hit computer game, it’s an epic Arabian romp in which he and Bond girl Gemma Arterton team up to defy dark forces. Naturally the baddie, played by Sir Ben Kingsley, is bent on world domination by means of a magical dagger and only the young twosome can stop him.

Although he is a fitness fanatic, the actor had to go through r igorous preparation to get in shape for the f ilm’s demanding action sequences. It meant learning parkour – a technique that allows you to run up walls or along rooftops seemingly effortlessly- as well as training for the sword-fighting scenes.

Jake said: “There’s no reason to do a movie like this if you can’t do the stunts.

“It was all about being able to do everything that was asked of me. So I got into the best shape I could, with running, parkour training, weightlifting and horse-riding.”

Despite the careful planning of action and stunts, Jake still got a few injuries along the way but shrugs offthe knocks and bruises.

He said: “Sometimes there was a little pulling and tearing of tendons and some little muscle things and bruises and cuts, but it was no big deal. I accepted that aches and pains are part of the job.”

Jake had the same true grit attitude about filming on location in Morocco where cast and crew had to cope with sandstorms and temperatures that soared to 125F.

He said: “It was hot but it was fun. The desert is really cleansing, the sand exfoliates your skin and there is a nice, warm, dry sun. I definitely breathed in my share of sand.”

It’s evident that Jake – who won a Bafta for Brokeback Mountain and also starred in Donnie Darko and The Day After Tomorrow – revels in his work.

He reveals he was excited just driving to the massive film sets which were created in the desert for Prince Of Persia.

“It was like going to a sporting event when you are the captain of the team,” enthuses Jake.

“There were cars lined up along the road for five miles and there was an army of film crew and the sets were 100-feet high! Every day I did feel like a kid.”

The film also helped him realise another childhood ambition – to have his own action figure. He said: “That is like fulfilling the dreams that I had when I was eight.

“When he is playing with an action figure what young boy doesn’t think that maybe one day… ? “So to be one is incredible. If you were to go back to the eight-year-old me and say that one day I will be in a movie that looks a little like Indiana Jones and it is the video game that I am actually playing, called The Prince Of Persia… I think that my head would have exploded.”

As always appears to be the case, Jake has a busy work schedule. He is filming a science fiction thriller titled Source Code, but before that hits the screen he’ll be seen in a couple of other movies.

One is Nailed, a bizarre comedy in which he is a young senator who takes up the case of Jessica Biel, a waitress who has accidentally had a nail stuck in her head.

And he also stars in another wacky comedy titled Love And Other Drugs in which he is cast as a Viagra salesman. He jokes: “That research was interesting.”

If Prince Of Persia becomes the smash hit that is anticipated, Jake could also find himself starring in a Pirates Of The Caribbean-style film franchise.

There are other Prince Of Persia computer games which could be adapted for the screen and he loves the idea of returning to the desert for more movie adventures. “I am totally game,” added Jake. “I love the character and his world. I think it is super fun.”

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time is released on May 21.

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Did Jake Gyllenhaal roughhouse with a woman this weekend?

No, we don’t mean in the fun way, babes. There’s a report going around that the Prince of Persia star got into a little altercation up in Montreal over the weekend.

And we’re here to sort things out for you…

The alleged incident supposedly went down Saturday night at restaurant Garde-Manger.

Apparently Gyllenhaal was dancing on the bench of his table with a group of pals, ticking off a blogger from DrunkenStepfather a few feet away who found the show to be quite egocentric.

Said blogger then went up to Jake’s table, turned to a girl there and goes (according the blogger himself):  “Hey isn’t that the guy who kissed Heath Ledger?”

Gyllenhaal apparently got in the guys face, told him to f–ck off and got the dude escorted out of the club. Only problem is in this he-said, he-said tale is that the blogger also claims his female guest was pushed about 10 times by Gyllenhaal before J.G.’s crew pulled him away.

Gyllenhaal’s rep claims blogger’s story is “libelous” and informs us his lawyers are taking “immediate action.”

And for more info on what really went down, here’s what we’ve learned:

Jake was definitely at the restaurant Saturday night (he’s a regular there) as was the blogger. Main discrepancy here? We’re told by sources who were present that the blogger in question said, “Hey isn’t that the guy who killed Heath Ledger?” prompting Jake to yell to the bouncers “get these guys out of my face.”

The instigator and his crew were then thrown out.

We originally read this blog post yesterday, where the site definitely had “killed” not “kissed” up until it was later changed. The post actually backs up this supposed kill claim by ranting in the item that if Jake was Ledger’s friend, he probably would have been there for him in his low point.

Seriously can’t say we blame Gyllenhaal’s heated reaction. “Isn’t that the guy who killed Heath Ledger?” Not a funny joke, dude. We wish punches were thrown.

As for this girl who was supposedly caught in the crossfire? Onlookers tell us “there were a bunch of girls” there but “no one was shoved or hurt.”

Jake is currently in Montreal filming Source Code, which won’t be affected by this nonincident. We hear filming has been going “great” up there before this.

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