Jake Jake Jake!

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

Thanks for the kind thoughts! Sorry, it is taking me a long time to transcribe, as it is quite a long article and I cannot find the text on the web.

I am posting pretty much only the pieces relating to Heath; there are lots more about Jarhead  and (brother-in-law) Peter Sarsgaard, as well as other things. There will be at least two more posts from the interview after this one, maybe three; in the meanwhile, I do hope others get copies of GQ,  the photos are really special, some of them full page or full two-page spreads. Nice!




From Jake Is Huge  by Chris Heath, GQ  Magazine, May 2010, page 110:

Between courses at the Ravagh Persian Grill in Manhattan....(continues)



Did Heath never do anything that annoyed you?

"No, I already admired Heath. I always was kind of enamored by him, you know. I mean, yeah, sometimes it was hard to sit with him. He moved..... He was a mover.

People have since suggested that he was really, really troubled by having to do all that promotion and campaigning. Was that your sense?

"Yeah. He was very sensitive. He didn't always really have a sense of performance in his everyday life. He was who he was. I think actors very often, they know how to present something, and that's part of their job.⁶ I think he was who he was. I think he was just really sensitive. We often used to do a lot of things together, because people were very interested in him and I think we felt safe together."


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For example, he says that when he and Ledger had to introduce Ang Lee at the Directors Guild awards. Ledger refused point-blank to say anything jokey about Lee, as might have been expected at such an event. Their introduction was consequently so serious and earnest, says Gyllenhaal, that when Lee came up to the stage, he told them,
"That was so gay."

[Monika]

THANK YOU JOHN!

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

THANK YOU JOHN!

 

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

From Jake Is Huge  by Chris Heath, GQ  Magazine, May 2010, page 110:

Between courses at the Ravagh Persian Grill in Manhattan....(continues)


Still, he also remembers how much they'd be laughing backstage at events: "For such a serious actor as Heath was, he was crazy funny. Dark funny, but funny." Out front, they came to be sobered by people's reactions, as they realized that the movie was bigger than all of them, bigger than they'd realized. Gyllenhaal tells me a strange thing about the filming, an experience he'd just rhapsodized about as so magical: "In retrospect, it just was a painful process." As though there's no reason why both memories should not be equally true.

"I don't think any of us can watch it to this day," he says. "I remember talking to Michelle very recently and her being like, "I didn't know if it was any good or not.'"



(More to come much later this evening....)

[Penthesilea]

You're typing all thos, John? Wow, thank you so much!


Wow also for Jake. Seems the question about Heath at the Oscar's really opened a gate which he had kept anxiously closed before.
It is wonderful to hear all those comments from him.

[Mikaela]

You're typing all thos, John? Wow, thank you so much!


Wow also for Jake. Seems the question about Heath at the Oscar's really opened a gate which he had kept anxiously closed before.
It is wonderful to hear all those comments from him.

What Chrissi said.

John; thank you, thank you, thank you!

I'm already pondering whether there might possibly be anywhere they sell GQ here where I live...

[Penthesilea]

Well, maybe 'wonderful' isn't the best choice of words. It's in a strange way reassuring. Feels good.

[Penthesilea]

I'm already pondering whether there might possibly be anywhere they sell GQ here where I live...

You and me both .

[Brown Eyes]

You're typing all thos, John? Wow, thank you so much!


Wow also for Jake. Seems the question about Heath at the Oscar's really opened a gate which he had kept anxiously closed before.
It is wonderful to hear all those comments from him.

Yes I agree with all of this!  These comments by Jake seem so substantial and thoughtful.  It really is nice to read this.  I'm going to go out to see if I can find a copy of GQ tomorrow.  And, yes, thanks John! 

[Meryl]

This is great to finally hear Jake talking about Heath and Brokeback and his own process.  It's strange to have something new to read about BBM, even after four f*ckin years.  Strange but good.  Thanks, John, and Eric, too.