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Maggie Gyllenhaal!
« on: March 09, 2007, 02:09:54 pm »
I just found this little tidbit of news over at www.pajiba.com in the Weekly Roundup...

Here’s some fantastic news: Maggie Gyllenhaal (talented actress, loving mother, savior of mankind) has been signed to replace Katie Holmes as Assistant District Attorney Rachel Dawes in the next Batman installment, The Dark Knight. Man, that’s cool. And I’d give anything for her to reprise her signature line from Stranger than Fiction for this: “Get bent, Batman.” Word is that Katie Holmes couldn’t return for the sequel because of “scheduling conflicts,” which we all know is complete bullshit. She’s got one movie in the works over the next two years. One movie, which undoubtedly shouldn’t take priority over a film of The Dark Knight’s pedigree. I’d long been skeptical of the whole idea cooked up by the tabloids that Tom Cruise was a jealousy-driven control freak, but this move — on top of reports that Cruise altered his schedule to ensure he’d be on the set of Holmes’ current project every single day has me convinced otherwise. That, as well as news that Cruise picked her current project, a female heist film (Mad Money) because there were no love scenes involved. But seriously, that’s not important here. Really. We’re a review site; we don’t peddle in cheap gossip (holy shit, Tom Cruise is a freakin’ lunatic with severe self-esteem issues and a Thetan chokehold on that poor girl. Run for your life, Katie. Take Suri and run. Look away from the Wall of Fire).

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2007, 03:16:49 pm »
A bit more detail on Maggie's new role, and the movie....

Gyllenhaal Steps In for 'Dark Knight'
March 09, 2007
By Borys Kit and Tatiana Siegel
Maggie Gyllenhaal is in final negotiations to join the all-star cast of "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' sequel to "Batman Begins."

Gyllenhaal is being tapped to play D.A. Rachel Dawes, the love interest to Bruce Wayne/Batman (Christian Bale). In the first movie, Dawes was played Katie Holmes, who, like Gyllenhaal, is repped by CAA. But reps for Holmes said she was unable to reprise her role because of scheduling conflicts.

"Knight" finds Christopher Nolan back in the director's chair, joining "Batman Begins' " Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Gary Oldman. Heath Ledger is set as the Joker, while Aaron Eckhart will play D.A. Harvey Dent, also known as the villainous Two-Face.

"I'm extremely excited to work with an actress of Maggie's caliber, and she's a great addition to the cast as we continue our story," Nolan said.

The script was written by Nolan's brother, Jonathan, from a story by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer. Producing are Emma Thomas, Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.

Warners' Greg Silverman is overseeing for the studio.

Gyllenhaal, who earned critical raves for her starring turn in the indie "Sherrybaby," was last seen in "Stranger Than Fiction" and "World Trade Center." She also lent her voice to the Oscar-nominated animated feature "Monster House."

She also is repped by Benderspink and the law firm Bloom Hergott Diemer.

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2007, 05:40:11 pm »
Oh my God, this is so cool!  :D

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2007, 09:59:43 pm »
I think the whole thing has a 6 degrees of separation quality to it...Maggie, Heath...you know, very cool...

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2007, 04:08:06 pm »
 :)  a little update for y'all :D

http://movies.msn.com/movies/celebsbuzz?GT1=7701

personally, I think Maggie and Heath will be a much needed breath of fresh air to the whole series........IMHO ;D
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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2007, 04:18:25 pm »


Just like with Heath for the Joker, very inspired casting!

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2007, 05:18:24 pm »
I read a good interview with maggie today in the free metro newspaper - but I can't find it onlone to post.
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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2007, 12:52:44 pm »
I read a good interview with maggie today in the free metro newspaper - but I can't find it onlone to post.

I hope they post it in the Dutch Metro too! I will look out for it, thanks!

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2008, 06:34:43 am »
Maggie Gyllenhaal has given an interview - to "Interview"  ;D - and talks about herself and various roles including the one in Batman. She doesn't mention Heath except he is (of course) one name on the list of actors who got her interested in "Batman" in the first place.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/23083315.html#cutid1

(click on the article scans to have them readable)


Almost the only interesting thing she has to say, is that she'd like to act with Michelle Williams.

I have always admired Maggie, she's seemed to me to be a self-assured, independent and intelligent woman who didn't just seek out the spotlight and fame but were looking for true and off-the-beaten-track career challenges, and who's had a thing or two of interest to say for herself. Sherry Baby was a tour de force from her, and as for Secretary - she had to have guts and be a risk-taker to take that one on! But here she has me gasping for air, she comes across as that shallow, vapid, air-headed, overly concerned with her looks, and generally fame-seeking..... Lots of generic babble, almost, about being a "woman".  If this is the image she wants to project of herself now, then that's a huge disappointment and there's not much to be excited about. Except for those who get excited about her photoshoot with the bed and boobs poses, of course.

 :-\




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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2008, 12:03:12 pm »
Thanks Mikaela, I enjoyed reading what she had to say. 

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2008, 09:29:39 pm »
My jury is still out on Maggie but I am falling in love with Michelle-though she does have a shakey reputation...

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2008, 09:56:06 pm »
My jury is still out on Maggie but I am falling in love with Michelle-though she does have a shakey reputation...

Shaky reputation in what sense?
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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2008, 12:52:01 am »

http://www.observer.com/2008/style/maggie-gyllenhaal-i-dark-knight-i

From The NewYork Observer:

Maggie Gyllenhaal on Heath Ledger, Her Brother, and Her Shrink



by Irina Aleksander
July 14, 2008

For its August issue, Marie Claire recruited Maggie Gyllenhaal, Batman's girlfriend in The Dark Knight—and stroller-pushing Park Sloper—to talk about her career, her brother Jake, and what it was like losing co-star and Brooklyn neighbor, Heath Ledger earlier this year.

You already know what's next: Highlights!

On the death of Heath Ledger: "We live pretty close to them. [But] it was disgusting. I had journalists call me on my cell phone. There were these two shy girls sent from some rag magazine to camp in front of my house. I came home with [my daughter] Ramona and I was so shocked and angry. These poor girls, it wasn’t their fault. They were out of their element."

On seeing a shrink: "For me it's about getting to know my own mind... It makes it easier to grow, and to grow up. I'm always thinking about what I want to take from my mother and what I don't."

On her younger brother, Jake: “We lived with him in Los Angeles when Peter [Sarsgaard] and Jake were making Rendition. Jake has a beautiful house, much nicer than a hotel. He’s great with kids—it comes naturally to him. He really has that touch.”

On turning 30: “I’m not the youngest person at the table anymore. I’m not the young precocious one... I feel like I’m engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I’m treated with respect, as an equal.”







http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/maggie-gyllenhaal-interview-dark-knight?click=main_sr

From Marie Claire:

Mega Maggie Gyllenhaal

Once the queen of quirky indie movies, The Dark Knight star Maggie Gyllenhaal braces for the highs — and surprising lows — of blockbuster-size fame.



By Meryl Gordon

For her breakthrough role as a kinky office assistant in 2002's Secretary, Maggie Gyllenhaal earned $65,000 for a performance that required her to be spanked and deliver mail on all fours. The budget was so low for her star turn as a troubled ex-convict in Sherrybaby (2006) that she didn't have a trailer; the crew carried around a hospital cot so she could take catnaps between scenes. Now, the onetime indie queen finds herself squarely in Hollywood blockbuster territory, playing Batman's girlfriend in The Dark Knight — budget $180 million — where there are as many pitfalls as perks. Consider: Suddenly, she's a target for the fashion police.

"Oh, my God, all the time," says Gyllenhaal, her voice rising. After she wore a sweeping purple Peter Som gown to the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute gala last May, her photo appeared on a "worst dressed" Website accompanied by vicious put-downs from bloggers. "I thought I looked great," she says. "Sometimes it freaks me out. I've been so hurt and felt so bad." But with extra star wattage from her actor fiancé, Peter Sarsgaard, and her famous younger brother, Jake, she knows that everything about her is considered fair game — now more than ever. "People will always say mean things about you if you put yourself out there," she says — and she has never been one to hold back.

"Maggie's got a lot of sass," says Aaron Eckhart, who stars as the disfigured vigilante Two-Face in The Dark Knight. He starts to laugh as he adds, "She has very strong opinions on acting and things outside moviemaking. She's not afraid to speak her mind."

On this sunny afternoon at the cozy restaurant Savoy, a Soho mainstay, Gyllenhaal, who has come directly from her 8-year-old niece's dance recital, is dressed — full fashion alert — for comfort, in sandals, blue jeans, a gray jersey wrap top, a Miu Miu red cardigan sweater, an antique diamond engagement ring, and a gold necklace with her 22-month-old daughter Ramona's name engraved on a tiny angel pendant. Tall and slender, she has a throaty voice and a lopsided smile. It has become de rigueur for anorectic actresses to consume big meals when dining with reporters to prove they do eat, but Gyllenhaal does not appear to be acting when she digs into a plate of pork sausage.

When I first met Gyllenhaal two years ago, she was very pregnant and house-hunting. Today she's deep into motherhood and renovating the 1860s brownstone she owns with Sarsgaard ("We made every mistake you can make"). Gyllenhaal — who's been cool with playing tortured characters and graphic sex scenes — admits that it took her a while to adjust to the mommy role. "I've spent all my time learning how to be a mother and make a home with a child," she says, adding that when Ramona was first born, "I didn't know what I was doing. It's so hard and requires so much work and careful thought. You just get stronger and stronger."

She thinks a lot about the kind of example she wants to set for her daughter, a topic she frequently hashes out in therapy. "For me it's about getting to know my own mind," she says of regularly seeing a shrink. "It makes it easier to grow, and to grow up. I'm always thinking about what I want to take from my mother and what I don't."

Gyllenhaal was raised in a close-knit baby-boomer household in California with politically active parents (her father, Stephen, is a director; her mother, Naomi Foner, a screenwriter). "They were not celebrities," she notes, which allowed her and Jake to have tabloid-free childhoods. Born in 1977, she came of age with the impression that it wasn't important to wear makeup, nor was it OK to manipulate people with her feminine wiles. "I always felt there was something dishonest about dyeing your hair to make it more beautiful," Gyllenhaal says — although she's over that now.


http://www.marieclaire.com/hair/celebrity/behind-scenes/maggie-gyllenhaal-photos

Behind the Scenes with Maggie Gyllenhaal

The onetime indie girl is back in a whole new way. Playing off a vintage-inspired set, she channeled the '30s with jewel tones and lots of va-va-va-voom.







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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #13 on: July 15, 2008, 08:54:36 pm »
Maggie and I were born the same year!!!  I feel SO VERY COOL now!!!

 ;D

(previously, it was known only to me as "also the year that Elvis Presley died."
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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #14 on: July 15, 2008, 09:01:31 pm »
Maggie and I were born the same year!!!  I feel SO VERY COOL now!!!

 ;D

(previously, it was known only to me as "also the year that Elvis Presley died."

It is also the year Leslie graduated from college...

and one of those trivia things...I took my nursing boards on 7/7/77 and 7/8/77 (back in those days it was a two day exam and they called them boards).

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #15 on: July 15, 2008, 09:07:26 pm »
It is also the year Leslie graduated from college...

and one of those trivia things...I took my nursing boards on 7/7/77 and 7/8/77 (back in those days it was a two day exam and they called them boards).

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what do they call them now?

Here's a pic of Maggie/Rachel Dawes, to stay OT.

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #16 on: July 15, 2008, 09:15:22 pm »
what do they call them now?

Here's a pic of Maggie/Rachel Dawes, to stay OT.

Nowadays they call them the NCLEX and it is all computerized...you take them any day, not on set days of the year.

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2008, 03:55:25 pm »

Here's a pic of Maggie/Rachel Dawes, to stay OT.



Maggie can be so cute!  She also looks so much like Jake sometimes it's spooky.

I thought the scenes between Heath and Maggie in TDK were just so surreal given the closeness of the work he did with her brother.


It's amazing to me how much Heath's career/ legacy is bound up with the Gyllenhaal family... with them being in his two most high-profile movies.


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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2008, 02:47:47 am »


It's amazing to me how much Heath's career/ legacy is bound up with the Gyllenhaal family... with them being in his two most high-profile movies.



And Jake being godfather to Matilda

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2008, 08:59:23 am »

And Jake being godfather to Matilda

Yes, absolutely.  Heath and the Gyllenhaals have become intertwined in such significant ways. 


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« Reply #20 on: February 08, 2009, 07:36:21 pm »

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/theater/08itzk.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

Together Off Broadway and Elsewhere


Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard, frequently seen in each other’s company around New York, are both in
the Classic Stage Company production of Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya.”



Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard onstage in the Classic Stage Company production of “Uncle Vanya.”



Mr. Sarsgaard, left, with Ms. Gyllenhaal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach in the 2007 short film “High Falls,”
the couple’s only previous acting collaboration.


By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: February 4, 2009

WHEN Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard started coming to the Classic Stage Company in the East Village a few weeks ago to begin rehearsals for Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya,”  they were surprised, marginally flattered and mildly annoyed to find that a phalanx of paparazzi had staked out the theater, flashbulbs at the ready.


Then they learned that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, who had taken up residence nearby, were regular visitors to the coffee shop in the theater’s lobby and were the photographers’ true quarries.

“They actually had nothing to do with us,” Mr. Sarsgaard said with an embarrassed laugh during a recent interview.

“But,” Ms. Gyllenhaal added, “they were like, ‘All right, as long as you’re here.’ ”

“Two for the price of one,” Mr. Sarsgaard said. “Awesome.”

In the constellation of couples who fascinate and transfix — Tom and Katie, Brad and Angelina, Matthew and Sarah Jessica — Peter and Maggie are minor lights, their appeal driven not by exotic trappings (private planes, bodyguards, baby photos for sale) but by career paths and indie credentials that have defined them as actors first, boldface names third or fifth.

Over lunch at a trattoria near their Park Slope home, Ms. Gyllenhaal and Mr. Sarsgaard come across like a shinier version of That Brooklyn Couple who gave up the hubbub of Manhattan to raise their child in a quieter, tree-lined borough. They paw affectionately at each other’s collars and complete each other’s sentences; juggle their work schedules to accommodate their 2-year-old daughter, Ramona; and grumble about carrying strollers down subway staircases.

On closer inspection, though, that veneer of mundanity starts to unravel: the couple, who have been together since 2001, are not married, live in their own brownstone, refer to each other as lover (at least Mr. Sarsgaard uses the term) and can often arrange their work schedules so that one of them is free to attend their child. They also happen to make their living in front of millions of people; when they perform onstage, the playwright John Guare comes to their previews; and when they travel to work in Montreal, they hang out with the rock band the Arcade Fire.

This makes them noticeable enough around New York that they attract attention even for routine conduct — Ms. Gyllenhaal ignited an online controversy in 2007 simply for being caught by a photographer in the act of breast-feeding Ramona — which has instilled in them a self-consciousness, as individuals and as a couple.

So there is an added frisson to their coming collaboration in “Uncle Vanya”  (which opens on Thursday and runs through March 8 ), one of the rare instances when the two will appear together in a professional capacity.

Mr. Sarsgaard and Ms. Gyllenhaal said they would work together more often if there were more low-risk opportunities like this, at a small Off Broadway theater with an accommodating director.

“It is only about the experience of doing it, and with your lover; why would we engage in anything any other way than that?” Mr. Sarsgaard said. “Why would we join forces commercially? It would be ——”

“Kind of disgusting,” Ms. Gyllenhaal said, finishing his thought.

Their individual résumés explain why the prospect of their acting together is so intriguing. Mr. Sarsgaard, 37, is coming off a widely praised Broadway revival of Chekhov’s “Seagull,”  in which he played Trigorin with Kristin Scott Thomas as Arkadina, to add to a repertory of reserved yet sympathetic characters in movies like “Shattered Glass,” “Kinsey”  and “Garden State.”

Ms. Gyllenhaal, 31, who was last seen on screen in the summer blockbuster “The Dark Knight”  (playing a role she inherited from Ms. Holmes), has her own tradition of playing astonishingly raw and unglamorous characters, in films like “Sherrybaby”  and “Secretary”  and plays like Tony Kushner’s “Homebody/Kabul.”

Thus, some coincidence — and some convincing — was required for them to come together in “Uncle Vanya.” Last summer Brian Kulick, the artistic director of the Classic Stage Company, began assembling the production, hiring the veteran Chekhov interpreter Austin Pendleton to direct and Denis O’Hare, a Tony Award winner for “Take Me Out,”  to play the titular misanthrope.

Finding an actress to play Yelena, the young married beauty who inconveniently attracts the affections of Vanya and the melancholy country doctor Astrov, was a months-long process. It was only after another actress turned down the role that Mr. Kulick turned to Ms. Gyllenhaal.

And it was she who suggested Mr. Sarsgaard for the role of Astrov, a suggestion that took the play’s creative team by surprise. As Mr. Pendleton recalled, “I said, ‘But he’s in “The Seagull.”  ’ I didn’t even know Maggie and Peter were together.”

Though Mr. Pendleton did not realize it, what made the bargain unique is that Mr. Sarsgaard and Ms. Gyllenhaal have acted together on only one previous occasion, in the 2007 short film “High Falls.”  In that movie, directed by Andrew Zuckerman, a friend of the couple, they played a husband and wife who jeopardize their relationship when they each reveal crucial secrets to the same confidant.

The project was not quite their “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” but Ms. Gyllenhaal recalled making the film as a taxing experience. She was about seven months pregnant with Ramona when “High Falls” was shot.  “I didn’t have an artistic mind at that time,” she said. “I hated the feeling of not having the energy to have a point of view.”

(For his part, Mr. Sarsgaard said, “I had a great time.”)

Mr. Sarsgaard and Ms. Gyllenhaal wanted the “Vanya”  roles, but faced a final hurdle: securing child care for Ramona. They are generally careful to organize their schedules so that one can take care of her while the other is working.

(Ms. Gyllenhaal is also extremely circumspect about discussing Ramona in interviews. When Mr. Sarsgaard began to talk about his daughter’s penchant for singing songs as she walks down the street, Ms. Gyllenhaal put her hand on his. “No more Ramona talk,” she said.)

Eventually the two were able to work out a baby-sitting system that involved a nanny, Mr. Sarsgaard’s parents, Ms. Gyllenhaal’s best friend and her mother, the screenwriter Naomi Foner. “My mom kept saying: ‘Michelle Obama’s mom is going to the White House with them. It’s fine,’ ” Ms. Gyllenhaal said.

By the time they agreed to do “Uncle Vanya”  it was December, and previews were four weeks away. That left them little time before rehearsal to pore over the nuances of their roles, but both Mr. Sarsgaard and Ms. Gyllenhaal were willing to admit — up to a point, in the presence of a reporter — that they saw certain kinships with their characters.

Like Astrov, Mr. Sarsgaard said, “it is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.”

Ms. Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, said she could relate to the undulating tides of scrutiny that Yelena endures from other characters. “You have some people saying, ‘You are a gorgeous woman’ in the same breath as ‘Can you please not talk anymore?’ ” She added, “It’s like going on the Internet.”

They are also aware that there will be many theatergoers who come to see “Vanya”  because of them — and happy to use the preconceptions of such spectators to their advantage.

“Those expectations are probably awesome for watching the play,” Mr. Sarsgaard said. “It probably fills in an enormous amount that could be lost, and makes each moment where we might interact seem significant, beyond what it should be.”

Their “Vanya”  co-stars say that by ceding the limelight to the celebrity couple in their ranks, they will be repaid in other ways. “In this economic time there’s a limited amount of people out there wanting to see theater,” Mr. O’Hare said. “What a great boon for us, to have people who have a profile like that, to attract people to come see us.”

There is also the heightened tension imposed by the design of the play: most of the interactions between Astrov and Yelena in Acts I and II are brief, glancing near-misses. It is not until Act III that the two characters truly collide, in a heated scene in which Astrov aggressively confronts Yelena with his romantic feelings for her.

It may be satisfying for the audience to see Ms. Gyllenhaal and Mr. Sarsgaard finally confront each other, but the actors said it was a scene they were still struggling with.

“We have never, ever done this one scene without one of us dropping a line,” Ms. Gyllenhaal said.

“Usually just one of us, though,” Mr. Sarsgaard said, pointing to Ms. Gyllenhaal, who laughed.

“In some ways,” she said, “that scene is about my completely relinquishing control — giving into him completely. And so I do. And sometimes I can’t remember my lines.”

Ultimately, Mr. Pendleton said, there was little instruction he could give the actors in this scene. “I’m not going to tell two people who live together how to work out a physical seduction,” he said. “That’s just ridiculous.”

Whether or not the couple perfect that scene by opening night, Mr. Pendleton said, they had already brought a fresh take to “Uncle Vanya”  with their “infinitely exploratory” acting process, which he explained: “You don’t make decisions until you absolutely have to. You just try everything, well into previews. Because of that I think they’ve inspired the whole group.”

It remains to be seen if performing “Uncle Vanya”  will make them more comfortable with their grade of celebrity status. Ms. Gyllenhaal said she could foresee a time when their desires to protect Ramona’s privacy and lead a more domestic existence would compel them to leave New York. “Both of us crave a quieter lifestyle lately,” she said. “We would probably like to move somewhere greener.”

Then again, Mr. Sarsgaard said, “Maggie thought we were moving to the country when we moved here,” to Park Slope.

Eventually, they say, they could envision themselves acting onstage together again — perhaps in Chekhov’s “Three Sisters,”  playing Masha and Vershinin, another tempestuous literary couple.

But those fantasies will have to wait for several months at least, while Ms. Gyllenhaal dives back into film projects and Mr. Sarsgaard tends to Ramona for a while. (“The tables have been turned,” Mr. Sarsgaard said.)

Should “Uncle Vanya”  merely prove a once-in-a-lifetime, let’s-never-do-that-again occurrence, the two said it had nonetheless been constructive for their relationship.

“I think you call me a genius in the play, right?” Mr. Sarsgaard asked Ms. Gyllenhaal.

“A couple times,” she gamely replied.

“Now that she’s got that straight in her head, we’re cementing it in there,” Mr. Sarsgaard said. “I feel like that will give me another five years of clear sailing.”



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                                    Excerpts from
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                                     interview
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                                     revival of Chekov's "Uncle Vanya," during lunch at a trattoria near their home in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

'I could have ended up on 80 acres of land'

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'We are a couple that are acting the play'

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http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/encounter/62917/

Encounter
108 Minutes With Maggie Gyllenhaal
At home for the holidays, with lots of delicious gooey cheese, way too many books, and a general sense of nouveau-Brooklyn well-being.




By Jada Yuan
Published Dec 27, 2009

Maggie Gyllenhaal lives on Sesame Street, otherwise known as a Park Slope byway.
The four-story brownstone she shares with husband Peter Sarsgaard and their 3-year-old, Ramona, has emission-free “fireplaces” and an overabundance of couches in the parlor, but the first thing you notice is a pile of well-loved paperbacks waiting to be deposited on the sidewalk. “In Brooklyn—maybe it’s the same in the city—you’re kind of allowed to put things in front of your house, and they’ll always get taken,” she says with such awe it’s hard to believe she moved to New York from L.A. fifteen years ago, at 17.

From upstairs comes the sound of Ramona having a grand time doing toddler things. This is the home that’s teaching Gyllenhaal to be an adult, she explains. She gave birth and closed on the brownstone within the space of two days and learned that “when you have a child, life becomes impossible if you’re not organized. Like, to take the subway with a huge diaper bag full of all sorts of shit is awful.” Same with homeowning. “I had no idea what I was taking on: a brownstone that hadn’t been touched since the seventies. We made huge mistakes. At first, when we got bids on work, we said, ‘Of course we’ll take the cheapest bid.’ Which I would not do anymore at all.”

Work almost sounds like a vacation. She and Ramona romped around Santa Fe and hippie-filled hot springs while filming Crazy Heart,  with Jeff Bridges in an Oscar-baiting role as an alcoholic country-and-western singer and Gyllenhaal as the rookie reporter who falls for him. And they just returned from a four-month shoot in London, where she was playing a harried WWII mother of three opposite Emma Thompson’s magical governess in Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang.

But now Gyllenhaal’s ready for more domestic improvement. She’s already got cooking down, but she’s actually been reading an instruction manual, Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House,  to figure out the rest. “Honestly, I grew up with a mom who was a writer, and her mom was a doctor, and I wasn’t handed down a lot of housekeeping tips.” In a few days, a nervous Gyllenhaal will be having a group of fifteen over for a “ Russ & Daughters Christmas morning”—a compromise between her Jewish upbringing and Sarsgaard’s Catholic one—and she has a mess of shopping to do. So she suggests a trek down snowy concrete to “beautiful” gourmet shop Bklyn Larder.

On the way, Gyllenhaal marvels at the quaint little life she’s managed to carve out in this place she doesn’t really consider to be New York City (as in, “I thought I would have kids in New York City, but I’m glad I’m out of there”). She tells how, after the recent blizzard, everyone got up to shovel, except for the nightclub Southpaw. But she wasn’t mad. “I just thought, Aw, they’re still sleeping.” She raves about her favorite coffee shop, Gorilla, “though they’re a little tough there. One time Peter was like, ‘Do you think we could come over and get 20 to-go cups for a little party?’ I mean, we go there every day. And they were like, ‘Uh, I don’t think so.’ ” A garbage man waves and she waves back. “I mean, you’ve got to thank the garbage man, right?” she says, though she refuses to speculate with me on which of her movies he’s seen. “Our block, it’s like Sesame Street. It really is. There are people who live in one room, and people who own the whole brownstone. There are people of all colors. When we were living in the West Village, there was that whole black-tranny-hooker contingent, which is completely wiped out now. Here, everything converges.”

Picking out her cheese plate at Larder, Gyllenhaal already knows she wants Petit Agour and Stichelton. Vacherin Mont d’Or is too “holiday season; they’re very sophisticated, my friends.” She dislikes a particularly earthy-tasting Pecorino Gregoriano she tries, but decides to get it anyway: “My husband will love that kind of dirty-whore cheese.” In search of something soft and gooey, she calls her mother, screenwriter Naomi Foner. “Hi, I’m doing an interview, but I have a quick question because we’re, like, fake-cheese-shopping in the interview, but I am actually buying cheese. What is that kind you used to buy, with the ceramic dish and the cream, that was so delicious?” The counterman, listening in, says he’ll get in some Saint Marcellin tomorrow for her, and the shopping—fake and real—is finished.

On the way back, I ask Gyllenhaal if she has any lowbrow guilty pleasures. Does she watch reality TV? “No! Do you?” Does she want to see Avatar?  “Peter really wants to go. Oh, I saw Up in the Air l ast night. It was sort of a guilty pleasure. Different from watching an Almodóvar movie.” And later on, she’s getting Sarsgaard to take her to Ikea. “We read a lot of novels, and we have boxes and boxes of books we’ve given away, but we have eight more to sort through, and at this point, I just want them off of the floor. I don’t care if the bookshelves are beautiful.”
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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal in the next Batman movie!
« Reply #23 on: December 28, 2009, 02:02:10 am »
Nice article.  Thanks, John!  Now I want some cheese.  :P
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« Reply #24 on: December 28, 2009, 10:52:17 am »
Thanks John!  Anyoe know what a


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« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2009, 10:44:23 pm »
Manhattan Real-estate woes helped Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard to brooklyn


Nothing bonds New Yorkers like real estate. So, while we can’t even fathom what it must be like to be 32 and own a four-story townhouse in Park Slope, when we visited Maggie Gyllenhaal at her brownstone last week, we could at least (sort of) relate to her tales of the West Village rental she and Peter Sarsgaard had been living in before they fled to Brooklyn. The actress, who’s currently co-starring with Jeff Bridges in the Oscar-bait indie Crazy Heart, says her aunt had been living in a “big, beautiful, raw” loft space on Greenwich Street with her husband and two kids for years, and that Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard had inherited the right to rent it from her “super-cheaply.” It was on the fourth floor of one of two adjoining walk-ups that had been bought by two artist couples who were dear friends and treated the buildings as a commune. “Then one couple died and part of the ownership went down to their son, who was nuts, and then the other couple gave one of the floors to their daughter’s boyfriend, who then was no longer her boyfriend,” says Gyllenhaal. “It was just never official and all very kind of loose. Which is great — unless it’s not, you know.”

Gyllenhaal isn’t quite sure exactly what happened, but soon the building’s owners started trying to break up each other’s leases, and simultaneously tried to increase Gyllenhaal’s rent astronomically and force them out. “It was this totally strange, like, New York situation where there were five owners of the building who were suing each other and we lived on the only floor that they all owned jointly, and so they were all trying to sue us,” she says. “It was, like, crazy.”

At some point, Gyllenhaal says, she had to mentally check out. “I did just sort of try to say, ‘As long as we’re fine, I don’t want to spend much of my energy thinking about this. Honestly, everybody was telling us, ‘You’re just absolutely going to win. Don’t worry. Just show up at the court date. You’ve done nothing wrong.’ Which is exactly what happened.”

It was an awesome location and an awesome price, but by that point, Gyllenhaal was pregnant, and when she contemplated her future there, it involved more lawsuits and every single day lugging a giant Maclaren stroller up and down four flights of stairs because her lobby was “three feet by three feet” and she couldn’t possibly leave it downstairs. “I always thought I’d raise my kids in Manhattan, but I’m really glad we left,” she says. “We closed on the house two days after she [her daughter Ramona] was born. I remember someone said, ‘Oh, we closed on the house!’ And I was like, ‘Oh great.’ Next to having this 2-day-old baby, I just didn’t care.”

Related: Read Jada's Encounter with Gyllenhaal in this week's New York.



Read more: Manhattan Real-Estate Woes Helped Push Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard to Brooklyn -- Daily Intel http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2009/12/manhattan_real_estate_woes_hel.html#ixzz0b2egANJV

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal!
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2009, 09:56:12 am »
Ellemeno - Russ & Daughters is a catering place/deli in NYC, they have hot appetizers and stuff like that.  I don't know if their food is specificly jewish or not.  She probably meant she is not cooking, they were bringing in food.

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal!
« Reply #27 on: October 28, 2010, 03:44:08 pm »
Now days you can start to wonder what subject the Gyllenhaals are talking about at the dinner tables. Apparantly Maggie Gyllenhaal is shooting a new movie called hysteria, which is about a treatment during the Victorian era called female hysteria. Jake doing Viagra and Maggie this, I wonder what movie the rest of the family will be occupied with, I guess it have something to do with sex.  :o :o

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal!
« Reply #28 on: October 30, 2010, 12:16:01 pm »
Ellemeno - Russ & Daughters is a catering place/deli in NYC, they have hot appetizers and stuff like that.  I don't know if their food is specificly jewish or not.  She probably meant she is not cooking, they were bringing in food.


Thank you, Sammi!  I didn't see this until now many months after asking my questions.  I'm sorry.  Hadn't realized it had been that long since I looked at this thread.

I saw a really interesting movie with Maggie on Netflix streaming recently.  It's called The Great New Wonderful, and I recommend it.  It has a fantastic cast, in a melange of slightly interconnected stories.  Maggie is very good.



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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal!
« Reply #29 on: October 30, 2010, 01:16:22 pm »
The real estate situation in such cities just boggles the mind.

Is it any wonder the market is such a stack of cards waiting to fall?

I watched my favorite dream show "International House Hunter" and in the 'looking for a home in Rome, Italy" episode, they couldn't show anyone actually looking to buy a home, because no one could afford one there, they had to showcase someone looking for an apartment to rent and the rent of nice-sized apartments in key areas was upwards of nearly $10,000 per month.  :o :o :o

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Re: Maggie Gyllenhaal! expecting second baby
« Reply #30 on: November 28, 2011, 07:24:16 pm »
http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/gyllenhaal-expecting-second-baby-report-1655143.story

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Maggie Gyllenhaal expecting second baby

WENN, Monday, November 28, 2011, 8:51am (PST)


One of Brooklyn's most famous Hollywood broods is getting bigger.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and husband Peter Sarsgaard are expecting their second child, her rep confirms to Us Weekly.  According to one pal, the actress, 34, is about four months along. The "Crazy Heart" actress told another pal she'll "be laying low for a little bit now."

The Oscar-nominee is already mom to daughter Ramona, 5. Together since 2002, she and Sarsgaard, 40, tied the knot in Italy in 2009.

The older sister to Jake Gyllenhaal, the Oscar-nominated star lives in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill neighborhood with her hubby and daughter. She has admitted that balancing her professional and personal life isn't easy.

"I had been so focused on Ramona -- and she's been everything to me -- but I'm also an actress," the star told Us  in January 2010. "It's not possible to do it perfectly."

"Being a mom is so present in my mind and my work," she tells Us. "It's the most important thing about me, but next I'd like to play someone who's not a mother. Really!"




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REPORT:
Maggie Gyllenhaal Expecting Second Child

By Amber Goodhand - Radar Reporter
Posted on Nov 28, 2011 @ 11:30AM





Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal and her husband Peter Sarsgaard are expecting their second child, Life & Style  is reporting.

Maggie sported a suspicious baby bump underneath her Grecian gown last month at the Rome Film Festival premiere of her latest movie, Hysteria.

"Over Thanksgiving weekend, Maggie was telling friends that she's six months pregnant," a friend of the actress told the magazine. "Her bump is so big!

"She's thrilled to be pregnant! She and Peter have wanted another child for a while. They're very happy that they'll have another baby in the house soon."

Also excited about the pregnancy is Maggie’s brother — actor Jake Gyllenhaal — who according to the magazine is a fantastic uncle.
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actor Jake Gyllenhaal — who according to the magazine is a fantastic uncle.

And who would know better than Life & Style magazine?


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« Reply #32 on: November 30, 2011, 07:25:40 am »
And who would know better than Life & Style magazine?



 :laugh:

He seems like he'd be a good Uncle to be fair!

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« Reply #33 on: November 30, 2011, 09:20:12 am »


And who would know better than Life & Style magazine?


Indeed!
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« Reply #34 on: November 30, 2011, 09:49:25 am »
In some photos, like the one John posted, above, Maggie makes me think of Annette Benning.

I wonder what Ramona thinks about all this?  ;D

The seminary intern at my church had her second child this month, a boy. Her daughter is said to be not too pleased with the situation.  ;D
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http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/jul/12/maggie-gyllenhaal-this-much-i-know





Maggie Gyllenhaal: ‘I’m claustrophobic,
it’s taken years to be OK on the subway’

The actor, 36, on hating elevators, finding out her real name,
her brother Jake, political activism and women in Hollywood


By Shahesta Shaitly
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Saturday 12 July 2014 10.00 EDT



Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'My brother and I are closer now than we've ever been.'


I didn’t know my real name until I was 35. I needed my birth certificate, and when my dad found it, it said that my name was Margolit. It was a bit of a shock. I’d always thought my full name was Margaret – never heard of Margolit. Neither of my parents can remember how it got on the birth certificate.

My brother [actor Jake Gyllenhaal] and I are closer now than we’ve ever been. We’re friends now, whereas growing up I always saw him as my little brother. My earliest memory is of him still in my mum’s huge belly. I was about three.

There’s something nice about being instantly recognised for what you do. But I don’t feel comfortable with paparazzi intrusion in my everyday life. There’s an antennae that goes up even if I can’t see them – I just know they’re there. My daughter finds it scary and upsetting.

Being politically active is incredibly important to me. My parents have been politicised and radical throughout my life – they taught me that I’m a part of a global community and that it’s partly my responsibility to fight for what’s right.

A real connection with another person scares me. Interacting with other people, letting them see who I am, is frightening. But I’ve learned that trying to be very “good” doesn’t create real connection. You have to be real. Let go.

Therapy was incredibly enlightening. I don’t think it’s only necessary if you’re unwell – it’s a useful tool for me to understand my own mind and how it works.

Motherhood brings you to your knees in a way that doesn’t leave room for you to judge others. It makes you see that there’s no ideal – a constant struggle, constantly compromising, but ultimate love.

Some of my characters are more alive than I am. I’m more daring in my work than I am in real life: doing a wild sex scene or a really emotional scene where you break down into tiny pieces in front of a camera changes you. It’s freeing. And sometimes it can be sad to let go of that freedom.

I have a raging temper. I’ll shout and scream, then it passes like a wicked storm.

Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years that’s how I’m described. It doesn’t sit comfortably with me.

There’s been a shift in how women in Hollywood are viewed recently. In second-rate work and sitcoms, the need for a “hot girl” still exists, but in first-rate work, women of all ages, shapes, sizes are getting work. It’s sexier when a woman isn’t conventionally beautiful. How hot was Amy Adams in American Hustle?

I’m claustrophobic. It’s taken me years to be OK on the subway, but in taking my daughter to school I’ve conquered it. Don’t even talk to me about elevators.

I used to be so tough. I’ve become much more vulnerable as I’ve gotten older. We all soften with age. I feel a lot more sensitive and less strident in the world than when I was in my 20s. I had more fight then, but I prefer the way I am now.



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It’s sexier when a woman isn’t conventionally beautiful. How hot was Amy Adams in American Hustle?

That's an odd sequitor. I thought she was talking about, like, the actresses on Orange Is the New Black, most of whom would not be described as "conventionally beautiful." But only by the most stratospheric Hollywood standards is Amy Adams anything short of conventionally beautiful.


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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2014, 06:16:08 am »
That's an odd sequitor. I thought she was talking about, like, the actresses on Orange Is the New Black, most of whom would not be described as "conventionally beautiful." But only by the most stratospheric Hollywood standards is Amy Adams anything short of conventionally beautiful.



I thought in my mind that she perhaps compared to Jennifer Lawrence who didn't play leading lady but that Amy Adams did.