Jake Gyllenhaal is spilling the tea on moving into the world of tv and doing it alongside his brother-in-law, Peter Sarsgaard.
Speaking with ET from the world premiere of his new Apple TV+ collection, Presumed Harmless, on Sunday, the 43-year-old Highway Home actor mentioned that as an govt producer on the present, he and his fellow EPs — together with J.J. Abrams and David E. Kelley — had hoped to get Sarsgaard on board early on. The 53-year-old Reminiscence star has been married to Gyllenhaal’s sister, actress and director Maggie Gyllenhaal, since 2009.
“I feel it was an actual want that we might get him once we all spoke about actors that might play that position,” Gyllenhaal instructed ET, joking that Sarsgaard — to the manufacturing crew — was a “lengthy shot,” though he clearly had “an in” with the actor.
Within the present, Sarsgaard and Gyllenhaal are something however brotherly, although. The collection — an adaptation of Scott Turow’s bestselling 1986 novel — sees Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor accused of murdering a colleague. His brother-in-law performs Tommy Molto, a fellow deputy prosecutor who goes head-to-head with Sabich at trial.
For the relations by marriage, the present supplied a singular alternative to bond in a manner that not many brothers-in-law can say they’ve: performing as full-blown rivals in a courtroom drama.
“Working day by day on these scenes, although they’re antagonistic, it was so enjoyable for the 2 of us,” Gyllenhaal shared. “There’s that factor with actors that we love these scenes, you already know? You at all times love that you just act these issues out and it is stuffed with drama.”
The Brokeback Mountain Oscar nominee continued, “But additionally, you get to deliver a sort of catharsis to your personal relationship. You recognize, there’s a manner of us bringing the historical past of us after which additionally on the similar time simply the deep respect now we have for one another.”
ET additionally spoke with Sarsgaard from the carpet of the Tribeca Competition and he shared related reward for his brother-in-law.
“Jake is at all times very intentional about what he does. He does issues for — with integrity. He is far more formidable than I’m in that respect,” The Orphan actor mentioned. “It is very nice to be round somebody who actually won’t cease till it is what he needs it to be.”
Outdoors of their relationship being a spotlight of the mission, the actor instructed ET that he can not watch for audiences to lastly have this present of their fingers.
“David Kelley and J.J. Abrams approached me with a pilot and the pilot was — [it] made me need to know what occurred subsequent after which some,” he mentioned. “Subsequently, the second too after which so on and so forth.”
The unique story is so compelling and standard that Turow wrote a sequel to the novel, Harmless, which launched in 2010 — greater than 20 years after the unique guide got here out. The guide was additionally tailored into a movie starring Harrison Ford in 1990.
Gyllenhaal shared that it was the unending litany of questions and twists and turns that first pulled him in and made him need to not solely produce the restricted collection, however star in it as properly. It is his first main foray into tv as a longtime movie actor.
“I assumed there have been so many questions arrange within the first episode that I used to be fascinated by sort of the form of ethical excessive wire and likewise sort of tsunami that this character was thrown in,” the actor mentioned, including that the craziness solely heightens all through the present.
Watch the trailer for the brand new Apple TV+ collection within the participant under. Presumed Harmless premieres on Apple TV+ on June 12.
ET additionally obtained the inside track on the freshly-announced sequel to Prime Video’s Highway Home. The remake of Patrick Swayze’s 1989 movie premiered on the SXSW Competition in Austin, Texas, in March, and Gyllenhaal obtained a standing ovation for his efficiency.
“I am actually excited, I imply, it is the primary sequel that I’ve ever actually been part of like that and to create the world and to broaden the world is fairly thrilling,” he shared of Highway Home 2.
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