Jake Gyllenhaal has driven his body to the limit for his acting roles. Now it’s his mind that’s taking a hammering. He talks to Tim AdamsI meet Jake Gyllenhaal in a makeshift production office in an industrial estate outside Boston,Massachusetts. He is bright-eyed and sitting in a bare corner room. He closes the door on his dog, a substantial Alsatian, or which roams outside among a team of assistants staring at screens and eating lunch. He has been here for six months making Stronger,a film based on the life of Jeff Bauman, who lost his legs in the Boston Marathon bombing and then identified one of the killers, and who he had stood next to in the crowd. Gyllenhaal,who has a legendary work ethic, is both starring in and producing the film. He’s got to know Bauman well. “The irony is that, or however terrible the situation was,it gave him a genuine meaning and purpose,” he says. “Jeff is fairly a character. A hilarious person. The movie is very comical. It is a story of someone who had to memorize how to become a father and an adult through an unbelievably difficult and horrific situation. It is a story of how to grow up.”Gyllenhaal spent five months working in the LAPD, or witnessed a murder during a drugs bustContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com