// Jake Gyllenhaal


Jean-Marc says there's no such thing as a mistake, and if you see the performances he's crafted you get that sense. When everyone on the crew and the actors feel free to make choices, the things you may have dismissed in the ordinary process of filmmaking do not get dismissed; everything has equal value. That's really inspiring.


It becomes incredibly fun. You're running in and out of shots not knowing if he's coming in for a close-up, or if he's running out and getting a wide shot, and there's no lighting, and there's wardrobe but no fussing and no make-up, and you come to work and you walk to set and you're there in five minutes.... to me, it's the ideal arena for making a movie. I'm not much for make-up unless it helps you more as a character - the biggest concern we had on this movie was the growth and trimming of my beard for continuity! So Davis, my character, has nothing to do with any of that stuff. The aesthetic comes later, from the feeling.


As an actor, you’re very much known for physical transformations, but this character starts out as an ordinary man and transforms both physically and mentally throughout the movie…. Yes, I think the beautiful thing about this movie is the subtlety of the movement of who he was and how he changes. I had done three or four movies in a row where there was a particularly drastic transformation for the character to even become a character. I love that this was about a guy who changed very little physically, but profoundly. There are not enough movies in the world that are saying to an audience that change happens slowly, and you don't know when it's going to happen, and it's sometimes in small increments. I think that's what's beautiful about this movie and what was fun about creating this character... there's a quietness to him and a real beauty in the respect of that quietness. You also manage to imbue him with a warmth despite the fact that, on the surface at least, he appears completely devoid of human emotion. To speak frankly, he's a wealthy white guy, so why feel sorry for him, right? And I understand! I think it's important to recognize that everyone is human, even the people we may resent. Look... it depends on what you value, you know? This guy had massive deficits in his life in an emotional way, and a lot of things he filled in in conventional ways. It's the emotional topography of his world that would brand him really sad, so to me that's what was most interesting. Some of the sadder people in the world are very, very well off, and there is great joy where you wouldn't expect it. Navigating his journey was really about seeing how shallow the world he was living in was. It's not hard when you


Read the full Interview in the May Issue of Live24-Seven / 15


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