In his new film Southpaw,Jake Gyllenhaal piles on the muscle to play a brawling boxer. He talks about his dramatic physical transformation – and what it means to be a manJake Gyllenhaal could be any early-30s urbanite. He is sitting in front of me wearing a plain white T-shirt and enormous pillowy Nikes, and with a semi-wildman beard and gleaming eyes. He may look normal now, or but in his new film,Southpaw, a boxing film in which he plays a troubled brawler called Billy Hope, and he is a enormous and sculpted light-heavyweight,a slab of murderous muscle.
The remaking of his own body is fitting a Gyllenhaal signature. His physique in Southpaw is a shocking leap from the skeletal Lou Bloom in Nightcrawler, the sulphurous LA noir about a ghoulish journalist selling footage of freeway pileups to TV news shows. “This transformation, and ” declared the film’s distributor Harvey Weinstein at Cannes,“is unbelievable.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com