Our BetterMost Community > Chez Tremblay
Jake Jake Jake!
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 07, 2010, 01:33:16 pm ---
I've been meaning to ask folks what they think Jake really means by comments like this:
He's made comments about BBM being "painful" in a couple of these different interviews at this point. It seems like such an enigmatic statement.
Does he mean the story was painful/difficult... that some aspect of filmming was painful (I get the sense that he loved the filmming since he has called the experience "magical" a number of times, including in GQ)... or, that the publicity, etc. was painful? Or does he mean the memory of it as a whole... maybe including Heath's death is painful?
--- End quote ---
Well, all four of the main actors have talked about how emotionally challenging it was to be directed by Ang Lee. And I continue to stick to my belief that he fell in love with Heath, so watching Heath fall in love with Michelle was probably very hard. And they talked about the isolation in Alberta was hard.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Ellemeno on June 13, 2010, 03:08:26 am --- I continue to stick to my belief that he fell in love with Heath
--- End quote ---
I didn't know you held this belief. Interesting possibility. What makes you think so, C?
trinket:
--- Quote from: atz75 on June 07, 2010, 01:33:16 pm ---Those are fun pics!
I've been meaning to ask folks what they think Jake really means by comments like this:
He's made comments about BBM being "painful" in a couple of these different interviews at this point. It seems like such an enigmatic statement.
Does he mean the story was painful/difficult... that some aspect of filmming was painful (I get the sense that he loved the filmming since he has called the experience "magical" a number of times, including in GQ)... or, that the publicity, etc. was painful? Or does he mean the memory of it as a whole... maybe including Heath's death is painful?
--- End quote ---
Hi friends!
Jake's relationship with Kirsten Dunst ended not long before he began filming Brokeback Mountain. It's widely known that she is the one who ended their relationship, something Jake did not want. I believe he stated in an interview somewhere that he had "just been through a break-up" and he was at a difficult place in his life. That, combined with the somewhat isloated location shoot, was what I believe Jake was referring to. I will try to do some investigative work to see if I can find that interview. :)
Ellemeno:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 13, 2010, 08:34:52 am ---I didn't know you held this belief. Interesting possibility. What makes you think so, C?
--- End quote ---
I've written about it in this thread, a pretty long while back, not sure how to find it. I tried advancd search just now, but it didn't come up with anything. The short lazy version is it's just always looked like that to me.
Brown Eyes:
I can believe that they developed some kind of crush on each other. I can imagine it going both ways... whether or not Michelle was in the picture. I feel like their friendship was separate from things like that. Jake speaks at some length in the GQ interview about his friendship with Heath and the nature of that friendship in relation to making BBM and then how it was during the publicity and then later. For those who haven't had a chance to read the whole thing... there are a few comments that seem pretty significant about how he saw his connection to Heath.
"We balanced each other out. When I think about these things that happened then, we were very much alive in that movie. We were really living that movie. Not literally, but you think about those times in your life...
[then it seems the interviewer interrupts him and asks..."Did Heath never do anything that annoyed you?"]
"No. I always admired Heath. I always was kind of enamored of him..."
Then, there's the comment referenced on this thread before... "I think we felt safe together."
And later he says..."We'd talk a few times a month. I mean, he was a friend. He was like my creative partner."
It's a pretty profound interview... he declines to comment about what it was like learning about Heath's death during the Brothers filmming. And then some of what he says seems a little engimatic... lots of incomplete thoughts and some comments that seem important but a little unclear. You get the sense that this really was an emotional interview.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version