INTERVIEWER :What made wewe interested in portraying Captain Colter Stevens in chanzo Code?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“I would have to say it was two things, the screenplay (by Ben Ripley), but mostly because of the director, Duncan Jones. Duncan made the most extraordinary movie with his debut film, Moon. I thought he and I would really work well together doing chanzo Code. And we did. Also, Duncan had this inherent trust in me, as an actor, and that felt good. I had weeks to work with someone as extraordinary as him, and it was like a godsend, wewe know. But I was also lucky to such a great character. He is someone I could look up to in participating in the chanzo Code program.”


INTERVIEWER :Do actors ever need any decompression time to get back to normal after doing upendo scenes au even something like the incredible action scenes in the chanzo Code?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Well, the making of any movie is always full of its own odd moments. When wewe do a serious scene where no one can’t stop laughing au there is an intense moment and wewe are supposed to break tables and chairs, and can’t get it right and wewe have to go and put everything back in — that’s what I upendo about making movies. So that’s just the great fun and irony of sinema — that people are made to look like idiots! But who are extraordinary at their jobs? And wewe have like, these two actors in this movie, who are taking themselves way too seriously. I just wanted to give a great performance.”

INTERVIEWER :In chanzo Code, the Captain begins to have a feelings for a woman that he believe he can save during one of the eight dakika missions. When wewe are doing a movie, is there ever any jealously between yourself and your significant other when either of wewe have to do really intimate scenes in your movies?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Never. For us, it’s art, and we’re artists, so we understand.”

INTERVIEWER :Do wewe consider yourself a fairly romantic guy? What makes a good romantic life?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“I think romance coincides with effort, so wewe can fall flat on your face as long as you’re making great effort in romance. Effort always comes off as romantic. If you’re someone who doesn’t cook, wewe make a meal. wewe can do anything that has a bit of vulnerability about it.”

INTERVIEWER :What would wewe say is the most romantic gesture you’ve ever made?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Well, I’m a little bit of a workaholic, so there was a time when I was working hard in another country with just one siku off. I flew back from that country to see someone for just an saa and then I flew back. I thought it was a really romantic gesture and I ended up with a whole bunch of frequent flier miles for my onyesha of love.”

INTERVIEWER :Is it tougher doing upendo scenes, than it was doing an action sequence?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“It depends on the film. For in instance, in upendo and Other Drugs, there were a few times I felt a little uncomfortable, mainly during the shots when I wasn’t wearing anything — I mean, nothing. (laughs) But, most of time, I was wearing sweat pants. In that case, the action in chanzo Code was probably tougher than a than the scene I did with Anne.”

INTERVIEWER :Love and Other Drugs basically asks the swali if two Marafiki can be lovers without falling in love. Do wewe think it’s possible?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Can friendship survive sex without feelings getting involved? I don’t know if that’s possible. I wouldn’t know? I haven’t been fortunate enough to try one of those relationships out. (laughs) wewe know, I really think that whomever you’re with as a partner does need to be your friend, too. All the really successful, happy relationships I know of feature two people who are together as friends, too. I don’t know if sex always has to have feelings, but friendship always does. If you’re Marafiki wewe will have feelings of some sort.”

INTERVIEWER :One of your most hivi karibuni films, Brothers, had a war theme to it, and as country we were still sending zaidi men to die in Afghanistan. Did it affect your performance in the chanzo Code? How do wewe feel about the war, in general?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Well, do wewe want to talk about the movie, au do wewe want to talk about current politics? Because I hate hearing actors talk about politics! But if wewe want to hear me talk about politics, then we can have that discussion.”

INTERVIEWER :Yes, I’d like to know how wewe feel about both.

Jake Gyllenhaal :“Well, to be honest, because I haven’t been, before this moment — to be clear! I would like to say that I think there’s a tendency for journalists to want to corner a movie like this into a certain…corner! And in this movie, it’s hard to separate the soldier, from the life that soldier lives, wewe know? Like if wewe see a man in uniform, then the movie is about war, And the movie is about a man getting to get back to the things he loves, in my opinion. I’ve made sinema about war. So I feel like I can say that. And I’ve answered many, many maswali about that before, wewe know? And how do I feel about what’s happening? I still have great faith in our president. And I believe that he’ll make the right choices. Look, it’s complicated. We are human beings. And soldiers are human beings. They have lives. And for me, I didn’t approach it like that. Because I didn’t play that part. I played a guy who’s in jail at the beginning of the movie. And to me, that’s an interesting aspect, politically. Which is actually a domestic issue. And I didn’t know that much about it, until I did research for the movie. I went to jails all around California, and juvenile halls. And I got involved in a uandishi program, as a result of doing research for this movie, with these young juveniles who write. I have relationships with some of them, and some of them have actually gone on to serve life sentences in some cases, And all of them, strangely, regardless of what has happened to them and their fate, are incredible kids. And to me, that’s also an important aspect of this movie. That here’s this guy who comes out of jail after he holds up a bank. And then he ultimately turns his life around. To care for two children, and to love, wewe know? And so it is with the thing about war, is that it outshines everything else. But to meet these kids that were in this system, where it seems impossible to redeem themselves — my life changed, making this movie, Because of that, because of meeting those kids.”

INTERVIEWER :How did your time doing research in the prison system change your feelings, in terms of the research for the acting?

Jake Gyllenhaal :“I mean, wewe make movies, and so much is about this process now. wewe know, selling a movie. au making it look good for an audience, au whatever. And the special moments that happen in movies, are the lessons that every movie has. Like for everybody involved in it. And I went through a journey in the prison system. But look, I don’t know how it can’t change your life when wewe meet a kid, who the siku before was sentenced to life. And whose girlfriend had to testify against him. So I don’t know how wewe could be breathing, and not have something like that change your life. Like they get one saa outside a week, and they’re fourteen years old. It’s now changed to an saa a day, but it was an saa a week when I got there. That is not to say that they’ve done perfect things. But it is to say that it can’t not change my life. And another kid with the LA Conservation Corps started telling us all these stories, And they were unreal. To me. Like hiding meth in the back of a lamp of a four wheel drive vehicle, driving over the border. And he was sixteen years old. And he told these stories like he was Homer. They were literally like tales. But he’s changed his life. He’s actually working now in the governor’s office in Sacramento. So it’s those things. It’s like wewe look at a movie and go, yeah. It’s a movie. But that’s the stuff that I care about. So anyway. that’s all!”

INTERVIEWER :Did the CGI effects for the chanzo Code often keep wewe on the set for long periods of times?


Jake Gyllenhaal :“Not at all. What really was exciting about doing the special effect scenes was that a lot of the times the siku is set aside for you, alone au for just Vera. So, that would allow Duncan to shoot zaidi than one scene. And, sometimes, I could shoot zaidi than one scene than one. So, I have no complaints about the GCI.