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Tom Ford Lets Us Know Jake Gyllenhaal Isn’t In To Manscaping ‘Down There’

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jake-gyllenhaal-shirtlessThroughout his career, Jake Gyllenhaal has only occasionally felt the need to denude his chest of hair, and it turns out the director of his new film, Nocturnal Animals, certainly doesn’t mind that. Tom Ford was talking to Vulture when the topic moved to Jakes hirsute-ness.

Asked about whether he’d considered getting Gyllenhaal to shave, he answered, “It just never occurred to me that he should shave his chest! I happen to like body hair. I think people should leave it alone — I’m not a fan of all this manscaping that goes on. I don’t really get it.”

He didn’t stop there though, adding, “If you like the chest, you should see what’s down here,” Ford said gesturing downwards. “There is no manscaping. There is no manscaping.”

Just to make sure we didn’t forget, towards the end of the interview, he teased, “Nice talking to you. I’ll get Jake to show you his bush sometime.”

Whether we get to see it or not, I’m sure many people out there will just be happy to know he’s got a full one.

Nocturnal Animal is out next month. You can watch the trailer here.

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Jake Gyllenhaal & Carey Mulligan To Star In Paul Dano’s Directorial Debut Wildlife

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paul-danoA couple of month ago it was revealed that There Will Be Blood and Little Miss Sunshine’s Paul Dano was planning his directorial debut with an adaptation of Richard Ford’s Wildlife. Now he’s found a starry cast to help him, with Variety reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan are attached to star.

Ford’s novel ‘tells the tale of a boy who witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his mom finds another man’. Dano has also co-written the script alongside Zoe Kazan.

Dano comments, “In Richard’s book I saw myself and many others. I have always wanted to make films — and have always known I would make films about family. I couldn’t be happier to have such beautiful collaborators like Carey and Jake leading the way.”

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Nocturnal Animals Trailer – Amy Adams & Jake Gyllenhaal star in Tom Ford’s film

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amy-adams-nocturnal-animalsTom Ford’s movie Nocturnal Animals has been getting good reviews at film festivals, and it won’t be too long until we’ll get to see the movie for ourselves. To whet our appetites, a teaser trailer has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in “Nocturnal Animals.”

‘Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer (portrayed by Ms. Adams), lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city. Alone at night, in bed, Susan begins reading. The novel is dedicated to her…

…but its content is violent and devastating. While Susan reads, she is deeply moved by Edward’s writing and cannot help but reminisce over the most private moments from her own love story with the author. Trying to look within herself and beyond the glossy surface of the life and career that she has made, Susan increasingly interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and re-awakens a love that she feared was lost – as the story builds to a reckoning that will define both the novel’s hero and her own.’ [Read more…]

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Take A Look At Character Posters For Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals

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nocturnal-animals-poster2-slideFashion designer Tom Ford got masses of praise for his movie directorial debut, A Single Man, and initial reports suggest he could get a lot more for Nocturnal Animals. Indeed , it’s just won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

A new set of character posters for the movie has now emerged, which you can take a look at below. The film will be in cinemas in November.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and themselves in “Nocturnal Animals.”

‘Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer (portrayed by Ms. Adams), lives an incredibly privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow (Armie Hammer). One weekend, as Hutton departs on one of his too-frequent business trips, Susan receives an unsolicited package that has been left in her mailbox. It is a novel, Nocturnal Animals, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Mr. Gyllenhaal), with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city. Alone at night, in bed, Susan begins reading. The novel is dedicated to her…

‘…but its content is violent and devastating. While Susan reads, she is deeply moved by Edward’s writing and cannot help but reminisce over the most private moments from her own love story with the author. Trying to look within herself and beyond the glossy surface of the life and career that she has made, Susan increasingly interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and re-awakens a love that she feared was lost – as the story builds to a reckoning that will define both the novel’s hero and her own.’ [Read more…]

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Jessica Chastain To Star Alongside Jake Gyllenhaal In Video Game Movie The Division

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jessica-chastainBack it early June it was revealed that despite the failure of Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, Jake Gyllenhaal was jumping back into the video game-to-movie business with a film ased on Tom Clancy’s The Division. Now he’s got some company as THR reports that Jessica Chastain will co-star.

The game is a third-person shooter that’s set in a dystopian New York City following a smallpox pandemic. Gyllenhaal will play an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, commonly referred to as ‘The Division’, who investigates the nature of the outbreak and combats the criminal activity that springs up in its wake. It hasn’t been revealed exactly who Chastain will play.

Ubisoft must think they’ve got a good chance with a movie version, as the game is their fastest selling title of all time, reportedly shifting $330 million worth of copies in just five days. It is part of the company’s attempts to turn the reputation of videogame-to-movie titles around, with high-profile films such as Assassin’s Creed starring Michael Fassbender and Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy also in the works.

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Jake Gyllenhaal To Star In The Division Videogame Adaptation

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Jake-GyllenhaalPerhaps Jake Gyllenhaal feels he’s got some unfinished business with videogame-to-movie adaptations, as he’s signed up to star in another one. Last time he took on an Ubisoft game, with Prince Of Persia: Sands Of Time, it turned out to be one of the biggest box of flops of all time. Now he’s hoping to have more luck with a movie based on Tom Clancy’s The Division, according to Variety.

The game is a ‘the third-person shooter is set in a dystopian New York City in the aftermath of a smallpox pandemic. The player, who is an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division, commonly referred to as simply “The Division,” is tasked with helping to rebuild the Division’s operations in Manhattan, investigating the nature of the outbreak and combating criminal activity in its wake.’

Ubisoft must think they’ve got a good chance with a movie version, as the game is their fastest selling title of all time, reportedly shifting $330 million worth of copies in just five days. It is part of the company’s attempts to turn the reputation of videogame-to-movie titles around, with high-profile films such as Assassin’s Creed starring Michael Fassbender and Splinter Cell starring Tom Hardy also in the works.

At the moment, the plans for The Division are in the early stages, with Ubisoft currently looking for a writer for the movie.

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Jake Gyllenhaal Is In For Life With Ryan Reynolds & Rebecca Ferguson

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Jake-GyllenhaalJake Gyllenhaal has gotten Life – or at least he’s signed on to star in a movie of that name. He joins the previously cast Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson in the sci-fi tale (some reports have suggested Gyllenhaal is replacing Reynolds, but Variety says both actors will be involved).

The film follows ‘the crew of the International Space Station, who, after retrieving a sample from Mars, discover that it displays signs of life, and proves to be more intelligent than expected.’ There’s no info on whether the tone is more action or horror, or indeed possible comedy, considering it’s written by Deadpool’s Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese.

Daniel Espinosa (Safe House) is set to direct the movie. It’s expected to shoot this year, probably after Gyllenhaal is finished with Stronger, about the Boston Marathon bombings.

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Everest (Blu-ray Review)

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It’s climbing season in the Himalayas and Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) is planning to lead a group of adventure tourists to the summit of Mount Everest. While he keeps telling them how dangerous it is and how many people physically cannot make it, many are gung-ho to get to the top. As they make their way higher up the mountain, Rob decides it’s going to be best to team up with a rival company, led by Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the hope of keeping things as safe as possible.

After facing illness and other issues that prevent some of them getting to the top, a group of them make it, only to be hit by an extremely nasty storm, which threatens to ensure that none of them will make it back down again. As the team gets separated and faces ever greater threat, it becomes increasingly clear that not everyone is going to make it back alive. [Read more…]

10 Years After Brokeback Jake Gyllenhaal Thinks It’s Now OK To Be Gay In Hollywood

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brokeback-mountainIt’s a decade since Brokeback Mountain became one of the most successful gay-themed movie ever at the box office, so it’s a good time for Jake Gyllenhaal to take a look back and consider whether things have improved for gay actors in Hollywood.

He recently told THR about the changes in gay rights over the last 10 years, “I think it is changing. And it’s pretty amazing how it’s changing. And one of the things that I’m so proud of [about] that movie, was to see, within the past basically 10 years, how much has changed. When the Supreme Court [issued a ruling] just a little while ago, I felt like we had been part, a little part and parcel of that movement. I was proud, you know? To me that’s really a pretty incredible moment. We had to wait a little while for it. But when will it be OK for an actor to be gay? I mean, it’s OK now.”

Of the decision to take the role of Jack Twist in Brokeback, he adds, “It’s one of the most beautiful scripts I’ve ever read and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine — before we even shot the movie — and always sort of alluring to me. Heath was always somebody who I admired.  He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way. I wasn’t quite sure where he came from. I mean, I know he’s from Perth, but I wasn’t really quite sure where he came from and I think that’s the feeling most people got when they were around him and why he was so extraordinary. And when that opportunity came I was a young actor. I was like, “Yeah, I’m in.”  I know a lot has been made of the choice to do it, but it just didn’t seem like something that was scary to me. You know, it was binding, because sometimes a lot of that character is very specifically the more overtly gay character of the two.  The one who’s struggling with it less. And I didn’t really realize that.  And that was an interesting journey for me, giving into that idea. Being the one who tries to push the relationship.  And I think in a very simple way people would say, “Oh the sort of more female character.” I don’t even know what the hell that means, but I’ve been told that many times — you know, the one who wants the relationship or something. That was an interesting thing for me.”

You can take a look at the full Hollywood Master interview below. [Read more…]

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Tatiana Maslany Joins Jake Gyllenhaal In Boston Marathon Bombing Movie, Stronger

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tatiana-maslanyShortly after the Boston Marathon bombing there was an unsurprising but rather unsightly scramble to start developing movies about the events. Thankfully things slowed down after that initial rush, but now one is moving forward, Stronger, which Jake Gyllenhaal is set to star in.

Now Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is in talks to join him, according to TheWrap.

Gyllenhaal is set to play  Jeff Bauman, who survived the bombing but lost both legs. Bauman had a central role in the event, as film will ‘detail the aftermath of the 2013 attack at the marathon finish line, where Bauman had been cheering for his girlfriend [to be played by Maslany]. A photo of Bauman moments after the blast remains one of the best-known images from the tragedy, which killed three and injured more than 260. When Bauman awoke the next day after surgeries and realized he could not speak, he asked for a pad and paper and wrote: “Saw the guy. Looked right at me.” That set off a massive manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted of the murders in April.’

David Gordon Green is set to direct the movie, with John Pollono writing the script, based on a book by Bauman and Bret Witter.

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