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  • Jake Gyllenhaal Dishes On What Really Terrified Him About Making The Emotionally-Charged Film ‘Demolition’

    Jake Gyllenhaal opened up about how he prepared for his role in the Jean-Marc Vallee film, Demolition, including the aspect that terrified him the most.

    Gyllenhaal, who stars alongside Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis, said during a press conference at the Toronto Film Festival on Friday that the unconventional film played on his own fears, especially of some dancing scenes.

    “He [Vallee] came to me and said, ‘We’re going to do a scene in a car and you’re going to basically break down.’ I said, ‘What? We’re on 86th Street and Madison Avenue,’” recalled Gyllenhaal.

    “That’s his spirit. Feelings don’t come when we expect them too, so shoot the movie in the same way,” Gyllenhaal added.

    Based on a Black List script by Bryan Sipe, Demolition centers on an investment banker (Gyllenhaal) who finds himself in emotional turmoil after the death of his wife. The banker is in the throes of examining his life and where he went wrong when he meets a single mom (Watts) who rescues him from his darkness.

    “It’s a story about a guy who begins the movie in a conventional way and ends the movie through an unconventional journey, feeling however [he feels], and not how society tells him to feel,” Gyllenhaal explained.

    “That’s uncomfortable as an actor. It’s not what you’ve been told grief is supposed to be, but discovering as you go along. And doing it with him [Vallee],” he added.

    According to the Hollywood Reporter, The Dallas Buyers Club and Wild director told the TIFF presser that grief for his characters in Demolition came in every day moments.

    “This breakdown moment, where this guy is saying he doesn’t feel anything to this guy on the train, and he becomes emotional when he says it, I liked the contradiction,” Vallee said.

    Gyllenhaal shared that Vallee often became emotional on set before Gyllenhaal was urged to follow suit with his character.

    “Jean-Marc would come up to me before a scene with tears in his eyes, before my character had tears in his eyes. And he’d be there right with me, deep in wherever I was, or where he wanted me to go. He’d say, now come join me,” the actor recalled.

    One way Gyllenhaal’s character moved through his grief was through dancing.

    “I was always looking on the schedule for when the dancing was going to be. I was mostly just terrified,” he admitted to the presser.

    Vallee usually began one of the dance scenes without prior warning.

    “The first time I danced, we were on the train, and he [Vallee] said, ‘Okay, the train’s pulling in,’ and he handed me an iPod and gave me an earphone and said, ‘Are you ready to dance? Let’s go,” Gyllenhall recalled.

    “At the end, I didn’t want to stop dancing, I made like a whirling dervish,” Jake Gyllenhaal said.

    A U.S. release for Demolition is slated for April 6, 2016.

  • Amy Adams Will Play Janis Joplin in Biopic Directed by ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ Director

    In an upcoming biopic, Amy Adams will play the legendary rock star Janis Joplin.

    Adams originally became attached to the film, titled Janis Joplin: Get It While You Can, in 2010. She later dropped out of it. Other actresses and singers who were rumored to play Joplin in biopics include Zooey Deschanel, Pink, Lili Taylor, Renee Zellweger, and Reese Witherspoon.

    According to Rolling Stone, producer Peter Newman has attempted for nearly 15 years to get a Joplin biopic, originally called Joplin but now entitled Janis, made. In 2012, Tony Award winner Nina Arianda was cast to play Joplin in Janis. The film is still in the development phase of production-with exclusive rights to 21 of Joplin’s most well-known songs.

    IMDB describes the plot of Janis as being about “a Rolling Stone writer assigned to write a cover story on the enigmatic Janis Joplin ends up on a long tour with the singer at the height of her success.”

    In 2012, Lee Daniels (The Butler) was in talks to direct Get It While You Can. The Oscar nominated director was set to replace director Fernando Meirelles (City of God). Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight) was also once attached to direct the biopic. The latest director attached to take over the project is Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallee.

    Adams hasn’t shied away from singing in past films. She had some very memorable singing moments in one of her first blockbuster films Enchanted. So it’s likely that Adams won’t hesitate to sing when given the opportunity to do so in Get It While You Can.

    The five time Oscar nominee’s love for Joplin seems to extend way beyond this film. She admitted to Vogue that if given the opportunity to have coffee with anyone dead or alive, it be Joplin, “but it probably wouldn’t be coffee.” Her passion for the artist may earn her yet another Oscar nomination.

    Production on Get It While You Can is set to begin during the latter half of 2015. Vallee is currently getting ready for the release of Wild, starring Witherspoon. Wild opens in theaters nationwide on Dec. 5. Adams can be seen this Christmas in Big Eyes.