Jake Jake Jake!

[Brown Eyes]

This last bit from the comment Sophia posted:

It was between us.”

Is just amazing.  It so reminds me of "nobody's business but ours."

Even this amount of comment from Jake is somehow extremely reassuring to me.  It's important to be aware of how profound both the BBM experience was for Jake as well as the subsequent friendship with Heath.  I don't think he needs, at all, to elaborate... but simply understanding how profound the whole thing is to him is somehow reassuring.

[delalluvia]

Thank you guys for the info.  Been reading all the stuff for the last 1/2 hour.

I'm glad to read of Jake's attitude toward his silence on Heath's death.  It's pretty much what I thought (hoped) it would be.  He was protecting Heath's privacy as much as his own.

"We felt safe with each other." 

We all saw that. 

[Monika]

Even this amount of comment from Jake is somehow extremely reassuring to me.  It's important to be aware of how profound both the BBM experience was for Jake as well as the subsequent friendship with Heath.  I don't think he needs, at all, to elaborate... but simply understanding how profound the whole thing is to him is somehow reassuring.

Well put, and I feel the same way.


There was so much BS about Jake after Heath´s death. I hope Jake didn´t hear too much about it.

[Brown Eyes]

I've been re-reading a bunch of his comments in these recent interviews, and Jake just handles his comments beautifully I think.  So, moving what he says about Brokeback, Heath and their friendship.  Man, a lot of it makes me tear up.  The fact that his sentences are often chopped-up and a little enigmatic when he talks about these things seems to underscore how difficult all this is for him.
 

That red carpet interview that caught him so off guard really does seem to have opened him up on this subject though... it seems like there are more and more interviews that keep coming out with the BBM/Heath content.  Maybe he's at a point where it helps a little bit to talk things through.

[Monika]

Fabulous Jake

[Monika]

More fab fics of Jake. And you gotta wonder, does he know everyone in Hollywood?

[Monika]

More fab Jake

[Brown Eyes]

Those are fun pics!

I've been meaning to ask folks what they think Jake really means by comments like this:

Brokeback was painful. Any time you go into pain, I don’t think you necessarily want to go back. But the results of that film, and how the public responded to it so hugely, were worth it.

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?

[Monika]

 

Does he mean the story was painful/difficult...

That's how I interpret that statement. When you play such a tragic character as Jack Twist, I think it's hard not to feel some of it on a personal level.

[Monika]

What do you guys think? Is this Jake?
It said so on the site where I found it but I´m not sure