The former Prince of Persia and Donnie Darko has never been so pumped up, as in the boxing drama “Lefty.” But Time Out, he said that the head on the shoulders of a man is more important than muscle.
On the poster of his new film 34-year-old Gyllenhaal unrecognizable: shaved head, tattoos, swollen muscles and bulging veins. Gyllenhaal is known for its dedication actor – for “Lefty” he plunged into a routine six-hour workouts in the gym and closed from friends and family.
For the “Lefty” Gyllenhaal already predicting “Oscar” – and if he gets it, it It will be the pinnacle of his long and rather thorny road to fame. Although the roots of Hollywood – filmmakers, parents, sister Maggie with a successful acting career, first role at age 11 – he always preferred independent films and sophisticated unbanal role of “Donnie Darko” and “Brokeback Mountain” to “Stringer”, which will be released in Russian a week. “Lefty” – too dark and intense movie about fighters trying to rebuild life after a family tragedy. Gyllenhaal plays Stanislavsky (or “method” as they say in America) – and this is evident in the speech inconsistency and nervous gestures of his battered life character. In ordinary life, the actor can be as calm as a Zen Buddhist, but few so serious about the profession.
Are you sure you dissolved in their characters. Is it difficult to get used to so meticulously role?
It is difficult – not the most appropriate word. Not least because that actor’s game does not compare with many really difficult things in the real world. I believe that the cinema – and especially a good movie – requiring respect. But within reason, of course. I desire for realism, but not when it comes to the absurd.
I’m not one of those actors who are “in the form of” 24 hours a day during filming. We need to give yourself a bit of freedom. I, unfortunately, not good enough to come and play on the fly. We have a lot to prepare. Classic art and not only – all that helps us to understand the character and feel it is right for me.
If you could choose one boxer in history and fight with him, who would it be?
A friend, are you kidding or what? I do not want to fight with anyone. In the history of boxing fights there, which I wanted to be, and the fighters, which would like to see. But certainly no one with whom I entered the ring.
in your Blockbuster’s career was far less than the projects over copyright. How do you choose roles?
Sometimes the determining factor is the director of the project. And as a producer, editor, cinematographer, set designer. The film never makes one person. I try to follow the work of all parts of the process – and realize the value of the labor of others.
We would like to shoot themselves?
Yes. Highly. But as long as there was no suitable opportunity. Begin to appear the options, but I know how hard it is and how many people think they can. You must be ready – not just in terms of willing profession and humanly: Directing requires incredible patience. I still need to learn from others, but someday I will try myself.
Do you think some of your most enduring role has turned out?
The ” Brokeback Mountain. ” I still write about her fans. Someone recently passed by the waiter at the restaurant a note on the check. This person could, watching the film, the parents admit that he was gay, and thanked me for the movie. One may roll his eyes about the insignificance of the acting profession and of the Hollywood absurdity, but when that happens, you start to realize the importance of our work in the lives of viewers.
Your sister Maggie recently spoke about Hollywood ageism – of her 37-year-old actress, considered too old to play partner 55-year-old actor. Are you ever watched?
I agree with my sister. Seen as it happens – and not just in the cast shop. The film industry has always chasing something newfangled, still not broken, flawless. But we should be to learn from the elders. All that I can do, I have to survivors and experience so much more of myself. If the movie business understand its history and the mistakes and the experience of predecessors, films would be much more interesting.
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