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"The most success I’ve had in my career comes from those shots, those gambles — ‘Brokeback,’ ‘Donnie Darko.’ You have to know what games you’re good at. You have to know what position you play. I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don’t find them odd at all. They give me comfort." Happy 38th Birthday, Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal! (December 19, 1980)

It was Hegel who said that all the greatest world events happen twice - and then Karl Marx added: the first time is a tragedy and the second time is a farce. Enemy (2013) dir. Denis Villeneuve

Jake Gyllenhaal photographed by Shayne Laverdière for GQ France | 2018

Ring in The New Year By Popping Bottles With Your Favorite Celebs | W Magazine

Jake Gyllenhaal appears in the original short horror film “The Damned,” filmed for the New York Times’ Great Performers Issue 2017. (x)

“It was ad-libbed as we were shooting,” Vallée says of filming Gyllenhaal’s dance moves, set to the sounds of “Mr. Big” by Free. “I showed a clip to Jake. I said, look at this guy dancing. You know, what’s it like to dance in the streets of New York like this, and just go wild? And he went, ‘Oh, yeah. Fuck yeah. Let’s do this.’” (x) DEMOLITION (2015) dir. Jean-Marc Valée

Jake Gyllenhaal photographed by Pari Dukovic © for Variety (2014)

“A concept we spoke a lot about was where to draw the audience’s eyes, and sometimes not where you’d think. ‘The Insider’ was a reference for that. This shot was sort of last-minute. David [Gordon Green] felt something was missing from Jeff’s time in hospital, and it was the sheer agony he had gone through. I think we only did one take, and as it was happening, the hair on the back of my neck started to stand up. It was obvious that the camera was in the right place to tell the story.”