Gyllenhaal is the Source interview - Critical chemistry with Michelle Monaghan

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan attending "SOURCE CODE" LOS ANGELES PREMIERE on 28th March 2011


Jake Gyllenhaal talks about his role in his new movie Source Code.

"Because the actors on the train are essentially performing the same eight minutes over and over again, the chemistry between Monaghan and Gyllenhaal was critical.
Michelle Monaghan (Christina) and Jake Gyllenhaal (Colter Stevens) filming ‘Source Code’ (2011)

"We'd never met before and I read for this and we hit it off. I didn't know how funny he was," she says. "He's incredibly animated and has a great sense of humour. I'd never seen that in any of his films before. We had a great time."

"I've taken a lot of public transport in my life and sometimes you strike up a conversation with a total stranger. And sometimes it's easier to be honest with someone you don't know than it is it with yourself or someone else in your life.
"This guy (Gyllenhaal plays) is like 'What are you doing? What have you got to lose? Leave your job, leave your loser guy -- you're a great girl, you have so much going for you, you're young, you have a lot of potential'. By the way, guys, these are things that women are desperate to hear."
Monaghan is married to graphic designer Peter White; they have a two-year-old daughter, Willow Katherine. And she doesn't hesitate when asked by one reporter the inevitable question: If she could go back in time and relive one moment, what would it be?
"My wedding. It was awesome. It was such a blur. We made the mistake of not videotaping it. I was kicking myself afterwards ... But I didn't want a camera floating around because people act differently when there's a camera around. I thought it would lose its level of intimacy." Source: www.torontosun.com

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Jake Gyllenhaal with his dad Stephen and Duncan Jones at 'Source Code' LA Premiere afterparty

Jake Gyllenhaal attending the premiere of "Source Code" on 28th March, 2011, in Los Angeles

Jake Gyllenhaal with "Source Code" director Duncan Jones 'Source Code' LA Premiere - After Party on 28th March, 2011Jake Gyllenhaal with his dad Stephen Gyllenhaal at 'Source Code' LA Premiere - After Party on 28th March, 2011

Jake Gyllenhaal at the "Source Code" premiere video

When Jake Gyllenhaal stepped onto the red carpet at the Cinerama Dome for Monday night's premiere of his new sci-fi thriller "Source Code," a girl across Sunset Boulevard who had shimmied up a tow zone sign shrieked, "Jaaaaaake! I wanna have your baby!" Gyllenhaal, flanked by "Source Code" co-stars Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright and Michelle Monaghan, was the man of the hour. In the film, he plays Air Force Capt. Colter Stevens, who is on a top-secret mission to save Chicago from a dirty bomb by going back in time -- via a parallel universe called the Source Code -- to discover who blew up a Chicago commuter train (the first in a series of planned terrorist attacks). As a result, he must relive the same eight minutes leading up to the bombing over and over again.
"I found it really freeing," Gyllenhaal said of the experience of acting inside a deeply warped space/time continuum. "A lot of times you stay within the structures and confines of the reality that you're aware of, and in this your imagination could run wild." He also said that one of the fights in the movie was a real fight. "Duncan [Jones, the director] said, 'Just go for it'. The fight he's talking about takes place on a train platform and it does look pretty raw". Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan attending "Source Code" LA Premiere

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michelle Monaghan attending "Source Code" LA Premiere on 28th March, 2011