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We’re halfway through dinner at Gracias Madre, a vegan Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles—though neither of us is vegan—and there have been a few interruptions. A table of young women next to us has grown progressively louder throughout the evening, either because of successive margaritas or, more likely, because of proximity to the A-lister.
Gyllenhaal’s sister, Maggie, in town for just the day and also not a vegan, has stopped by unexpectedly, asking whether Jake got her text to meet her here. (He didn’t.) And an unapologetic fan has just arrived tableside asking for a photo, a request Gyllenhaal politely—and almost unsuccessfully—declines. (He: “I’m just doing an interview”; she: “Will you be long?”)
It’s not the kind of ribbing you can imagine Christian Bale playing along with (“Now, exactly what did you binge on to gain that paunch for American Hustle?”), and it’s even harder to imagine Robert De Niro, jump rope in hand, recounting his Raging Bull regimen. Gyllenhaal has never shied away from rigorous training: The five months he spent learning to box for Southpaw are reminiscent of the five months in 2011 he spent immersed in the world of Los Angeles police work in preparation for the 22-day End of Watch shoot—from ride-alongs to shooting practice to fire training (“That’s where you run into a burning building,” he explains). The physical metamorphosis is really just an externalization of a process he goes through for every role.
There’s a pause as Gyllenhaal considers what he’s saying, or maybe how he’s saying it, and then a slight course correction. The point may be better made with the easygoing, sly sense of humor that’s always close at hand. “People have a lot of other shit they have to do that’s more interesting and more important, so I don’t blame them for being like, ‘Oh, wait, how many sit-ups did you have to do?’ Or, ‘Oh, wow, what did you eat to lose that much weight?’ But you’re missing the point. Nightcrawler was ironically about the trouble with that question. It was about why people only look at how much weight you lost, as opposed to what’s at the heart of what you’re doing. In that world, where we just focus on those things, somebody like Lou Bloom thrives. In fact, he rules.”
In 2010, Gyllenhaal stared into the mirror, saw a leading man looking back, and blinked—or so the line on him goes. That was the year that he starred in Love & Other Drugs, the romantic comedy in which he played a frequently undressed pharmaceutical rep, and Prince of Persia, a big-budget sword-and-sandals epic adapted from a video-game series. Neither movie fared well critically or commercially, and since then he’s been making what are referred to in Hollywood as “interesting choices,” chasing drug cartels (End of Watch), kidnappers (the disturbing abduction drama Prisoners), car accidents (Nightcrawler), and—in Denis Villeneuve’s strange and dreamy Enemy—himself through films that offered little in the way of box-office glory and plenty of chances to map out darkness. And if that weren’t enough artistic cred, Gyllenhaal also explored theater, starring in two dramas by the British playwright Nick Payne, If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet and Constellations, his Broadway debut. This account of his turn toward the bleak and unconventional is so much the accepted wisdom that before he collects me at my hotel for dinner, a friend in New York e-mails, “I hope he picks you up in a shitty Kia . . . just the latest in his bold, unexpected Hollywood choices.”
2010年，吉伦哈尔盯着镜子，回过头看到了男主角并且眨了眨眼，或者在等他走。就在这一年，他在爱情与灵药这部浪漫喜剧中，他扮演一个经常不穿衣服的医药代表，然而在波斯王子这部电影当中，大预算的古装动作史诗片改编自一个视频游戏。无论是表现不俗被批判的或者是商业化的电影，从那时起，他一直在做一件事被好莱坞称为“有趣的选择”。这些选择包括追毒品卡特尔（火线赤子情），绑匪（令人不安的囚徒），车祸（夜行者），并且在丹尼斯维伦纽夫的陌生和梦幻般的敌人这部剧当中，自己通过大量的票房和机会，在影片很少的情况下，筹划出黑暗的方式。如果这还不够有艺术性的可靠度，吉伦哈尔还探索戏剧，由英国剧作家尼克·佩恩主演的两部剧，分别是如果有我还没有发现以及星座，都是他的百老汇处女作。他面对惨淡和非常规的事情，选择在此时转型是很聪明的。而且在他接我在酒店吃饭前，在纽约电子邮件的朋友告诉他，“我希望他拿起一个低劣的起亚。 。 。只是最近他的勇敢和无法预计的好莱坞选择。”
