With a profession that’s ranged 33 years — over three quarters of his life — Jake Gyllenhaal has coated almost each sort of character, style, and type, however in a latest interview in The Hollywood Reporter, he mentioned he’s now centered on taking up roles that “freak me out a bit.” Whether or not which means getting minimize and studying to present and take a beating for Doug Liman’s “Street Home” remake or wading via the ethical and moral murk of homicide and infidelity within the upcoming Apple TV+ mini-series “Presumed Harmless,” Gyllenhaal is sport for a problem.
“The sensation I need to have is, can I do it?” mentioned Gyllenhaal. “That it’s going to ask of me issues that I don’t find out about myself but.”
Gyllenhaal attributes this need push himself additional to his sister Maggie. He’ll be collaborating in her newest directorial effort, “The Bride!,” a reinvention of James Whales’ 1935 sequel “The Bride of Frankenstein,” and praises his sibling’s means to enterprise into the unknown.
“My sister has all the time been sensible,” mentioned Gyllenhaal. “What it did was current one thing to me that I inevitably would all the time be chasing. She takes a step and does one thing and I’m like, ‘Whoa, holy shit. All proper, I’m going to do this.’”
Tracing it again even additional, Gyllenhaal believes this exploratory need was handed down from their artist mother and father (their father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal and mom is screenwriter Naomi Foner).
“My mother and father had been actually busy and dealing quite a bit,” he mentioned to The Hollywood Reporter. “I spent a variety of time as a child being like, ‘What’s that imply? What’s that? Are they going?’”
This inquisitiveness has bled again into his work and continues to today as he prepares to tackle his newest problem, starring reverse Denzel Washington in a brand new Broadway manufacturing of Shakespeare’s “Othello.”
“It’s studying one other language,” Gyllenhaal mentioned of taking up The Bard. “I’ve a little bit of dyslexia, too, notably inside the articles of issues — like, I’ll reverse them. Many individuals say, ‘However you be taught so quick.’ And I’m like, ‘I drill these items.’”
Based mostly on the 1987 novel of the identical identify and beforehand tailored into a movie starring Harrison Ford in 1990, the tv adaptation of “Presumed Harmless” streams June 12 on Apple TV+.