The darker characters are getting harder to leave behind at work for the actor. He has since stayed with darker dramas, as with 2007’s “Zodiac” and 2009’s “Brothers” and more recently, a police officer who becomes entangled in the drug cartel world in 2012’s “End of Watch.” Gyllenhaal, whose parents are writer-directors and whose older sister Maggie is an actress, forged his acting career in his teens with breakout roles in 2001’s cult hit “Donnie Darko” and in 2002’s “The Good Girl” as a psychologically unstable young man.Īfter a leading role in 2004’s blockbuster disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow,” the actor earned a best supporting-actor Oscar nomination in 2006 for his portrayal of a gay cowboy opposite Heath Ledger in “Brokeback Mountain.” ‘you’re not going to get my attention in the way that you did,’” he added. Denis said very specifically to me before we started ‘Prisoners’. “I was definitely not the centre of attention on ‘Prisoners,’ I was doing my thing along with a number of many more talented actors than I am. “I think there were places where I thought I knew what I was doing, but then as I’d watch those and do it back, it wasn’t easy to work with as I thought it would be.”
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“Never have I had the opportunity to feel what it was like to act against my own instincts, and I actually was humbled by it,” he said in an interview littered with laughs, Jay Z quotes and talk of serial killers. Gyllenhaal, who had to manoeuvre special effects and act with tennis balls used to digitally place Adam and Anthony on-screen together, said the film was “the most fulfilling creative experience” for him. When the two meet, their lives become intertwined.
The two men are unrelated but look identical.Īdam discovers his double while watching an obscure film and descends into an obsessive search for Anthony. Jake Gyllenhaal, 33, plays both Adam Bell, a teacher struggling to commit to a relationship, and Anthony St. REUTERS/Mario AnzuoniĬanadian director Denis Villeneuve explores that question in the psychological thriller “Enemy,” in theatres on Friday, based on Jose Saramago’s 2002 novel “The Double.” Actor Jake Gyllenhaal poses at the 17th Annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California October 21, 2013.
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