Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the funniest guys I have seen in interviews. He honestly sounds like he has fun with it. If only I could get an interview with him! He was interviewed recently by /Film about his new movie, Prince Of Persia: Sands of Time, and really he swears and jokes around the whole time. There is the part of the interview where he talks about the ostriches on the set. Here is Jake talking about the stunts and the ostriches. It’s priceless…
Well, I worked in L.A. for a few weeks before I left for London. We had a month of rehearsal in London, and I worked in L.A. with just Parkour guys and obviously, David Bell has been on set with us and he’s been working… I haven’t been working directly in terms of technique, but he’s designed a lot of stuff, and surprisingly, a lot of the things they taught me and asked me to do, just start to come easily when you start isometric type of workouts, a lot of hanging and a lot of training your body to move precisely and landing in the right away. A lot is about landing. Anybody can run and jump as far as they can but landing it is the hardest part, which is why you have the four guys outside looking like me. (laughter) I mean, I just learned it. If there’s one thing on this movie I’ve learned so fast is that when someone asks you to do something, you have to try it and see if you can do it, and if you don’t do it the first time, then you have to try again. If you miss it three times then somebody else has to do it, but if you don’t try to do it, then you’ll regret it for the rest of the time, because that’s what these movies afford you, an opportunity to do crazy sh*t that you wouldn’t normally be able to do. (laughs) I remember there’s a whole scene with ostriches in the movie and there are real live ostriches, not CG ostriches. There’s not a CG’ed ostrich in this movie. They’re all real ostriches, highly paid, and we were all briefed on them for weeks before like “They’re these massive destructive creatures that can tear your heart out with their claws.” (laughs) I swear to God I never thought of an ostrich this way! And I was shaking in my boots when they finally brought them out and they’re (does an ostrich impression) and I walked up to it and one of my stuntmen was in the ring with them, and finally, I was like, “When am I going to be in a f*cking cage with ostriches again in my life? I gotta get in here!” So I got in there and they were the sweetest things. I did everything with them, I eventually did that, but every day is like that. You gotta get in there and you gotta do it and that is an experience I’ll never be able to… well, hopefully ostriches will come back again… either in reshoots or hopefully in a second one. That sort of sums up the movie. (laughs)
I would love to see what his ostrich impression would actually look like.
Finally, we get the first glimpse of the Prince of Persia: Sands Of Time movie trailer. I think that the effects look great and I might actually want to sit through the whole thing…and that is because of the shirtlessness. I think that when they decided to make the movie, having Jake Gyllenhaal be shirtless through the movie makes me able to sit until May 28, 2010 to watch it.
Two new stills from The Prince of Persia have been released. And I have to admit that I gasped when I saw this picture of Jake Gyllenhaal. I know that I will only be going to see the movie because of him. I might as well tell everyone that now. It would be selfish of me not to go watch him shirtless for two hours.
Here is a run down of the scene stills shown below:
Getting a little bit carried away trying to cool down in the arid Middle Eastern sun, our Prince Dastan, played by the brooding Jake Gyllenhaal, along with the sultry Princess Tamina (Gemma Arterton) are shown here drenched from head to foot, and then escaping on horseback still soaking wet.
Empire have I told you how much I love you lately?
We finally get a chance to peep at the Prince of Persia movie posters. One is of Jake Gyllenhaal as the ‘rouge prince’ Dastan. I’m thinking that there will be alot shirtless action on Jake’s part and that alone is worth the movie ticket. The other poster is of Gemma Arterton as ‘mysterious princess’ Tamina.
I can’t wait to see what else comes out from now until May.
We have seen Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia before, but this is the first official in character picture of Jake. The movie is set to be released on March 2010, and they are starting the hype already. I can handle that. I can’t wait to see what else they release from the movie.
“I’m tired of taking myself so seriously,” says the actor, who found himself sword-fighting, climbing walls, and jumping off of buildings as part of the prince’s quest to find an enchanted dagger and turn back time. “It’s nice when a stuntman turns to you and is like, ‘Actors don’t normally do this.’”
You can see the photo in this week’s Entertainment Weekly. I can’t wait until this one arrives in my mailbox.
I have been excited to see the first pictures of Jake Gyllenhaal in The Prince Of Persia since I saw these. I was a bit nervous and wondered if Jake would be able to pull it off, but I have to say that he did.
Mike Newell’s film, based on the popular video game, tells the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world.
We will have to wait another year until we can see it though. It doesn’t come out until May 28th, 2010.
