It looks like Jake Gyllenhaal is bidding to join the Robert De Niro and Christian Bale club of actors who are happy to completely transform they body for a role. Sfter losing huge amounts of weight for Nightcrawler, he’s now turned his torso into a vascular mass of rippling muscles for Southpaw.
The first pic has arrived via Deadline, which seems deliberately designed to make us goggle at the 15 pounds of pure muscle the actor packed on for the movie.
Oddly though, if everything had gone to the original plan, this wouldn’t be a pic of Gyllenhaal, it would be Eminem, as when it went into development it was designed as a boxing film that was an allegory for the rapper’s own life.
However that all changed and now it’s Jake who is ‘Junior Middleweight Champion Billy “The Great” Hope, a lefty champ who loses everything in a personal tragedy and is forced to fight his way to redemption.’
Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, 50 Cent and Naomie Harris co-star with Antoine Fuqua directing. Southpaw will be in cinemas sometime next year.
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