As we documented in our feature 5 Recent Roles That Have Re-Established Jake Gyllenhaal's Career, the young actor has been blazing a path of late of complex roles in equally complex films. "End Of Watch," "Prisoners," "Enemy," and this fall's "Nightcrawler" couldn't be more different...
FIGHTING FIT ; Jake Gyllenhaal Certainly Looks the Part in His New Boxing Film Southpaw. He Tells Gill Pringle about His Gruelling Training Regime, While Co-Stars 50 Cent and Rachel McAdams Explain Why They Are Greatly in Awe of Their Dedicated Leading Man 'IwasterrifiedI'djustlooklikeanidiot...
Gyllenhaal stars as Elwood Dalton, a former UFC middleweight running from a grim incident that ended his career and made him notorious. On a vague mission of self-imposed penance, he now bangs around in a beater car seeking shady boxing events to make some quick cash. His power to ...
"Southpaw" (2015, R, 124 min., $29.98) Another superb performanceby Jake Gyllenhaal is wasted in...Conti, Garrett
Subsequent shots show Gyllenhaal doing some quick exercises between scenes, squeezing in a few push-ups outside in the back of a soundstage; and doing boxing training. He’s also pictured submerged in a makeshift ice bath within what appears to be a storage crate. The final photo shows a ...
He delivered one of his best performances in arguably the most controversial movie of his career, "Brokeback Mountain" (2005), which earned him his greatest critical acclaim to date. From there, Gyllenhaal developed into a prominent leading actor capable of turning in understated performances as ...