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Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal. Some of the popular movies he has appeared in include October Sky, Donnie Darko, The Day After Tomorrow, Brokeback Mountain, The Good Girl, and Source Code. Gyllenhaal has earned honors such as two MTV Movie Awards, a Hollywood Film Festival Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Young Hollywood Award. He has formerly dated actresses Kirstin Dunst and Resse Witherspoon as well as singer Taylor Swift.

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24 Oct, 2014

Jake Gyllenhaal interview

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Seacrest interviews Gyllenhaal during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about his charterer Lou Bloom in the film Night Crawler. 

He’s a very hungry character. He’s really ambitious, and he’s also, I mean, just literally hungry. We were talking about how these guys who do the work he does, which is basically go to crime scenes and accident scenes, and try to get footage to sell to the local news. These guys are kind of scavengers, they’re hunters, and kind of in the animal kingdom, they’re like the coyotes. The director and I decided that he should kind of look like a coyote cause they’re all over Southern California.

11 Sep, 2013

V-man cover

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1378919955_jake-gyllenhaal-vman-cover-467Gyllenhaal appears on the cover of the Fall/Winter issue of V-man. Inside the magazine he talks about the method he uses for acting.

Maybe some people can be fooled but I’m not interested in that. I think it’s possible to be intimate in your work.  It means asking questions of yourself, it demands trust.

20 May, 2010

Elle Magazine interview

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Gyllenhaal gives interview to Elle about how he got Ann Hathaway to act in Love and Other Drugs. 

I lured her to do the movie by telling her that [Brokeback] wasn’t our love story, this one should be. We’re going to learn the hard, dirty, rough parts of ourselves and share them at the same time.

14 Dec, 2009

Witherspoon, Gyllenhaal split

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Witherspoon and Gyllenhaal split after two years of dating. Sources say that Gyllenhaal was ready to get married but Witherspoon wasn’t quite ready to make that step.

 I had a certain idea what I thought marriage gives, but sometimes it doesn’t work out that way.

Asked if she would ever marry again:

I don’t know. I don’t think about it much.