Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about working with directorGuy Ritchie, has to “let go” and “figure out” together Get Out” for their upcoming movie The Covenant .
When Hot Ones host Sean Evans asked The Nightcrawler actor in Thursday’s episode, if he finds working with a director who allows “a lot of room to explore” “more intimidating, challenging or Freer,” Gyllenhaal replied, “What I love about my job is that you get to work with so many different people.
Richie-directed action-thriller stars Gyllenhaal as U.S. Army Sgt. John Kinley and Afghan translator Ahmad ( Dar Salim) against the Taliban.
“For Guy, it was unlike anything I’ve ever done,” he recalls. “He said to me, ‘Don’t memorize any of your lines’, and the script came up 50 page. It’s not even a full script. ”
Prisoners the actor continued “Usually, the script is like page, I was like, ‘What is this? ’ When he first sent it, then he said, ‘You come on set, we’ll deal with it that day, and then you go and shoot your stuff.’ It was the most inspiring, creative thing I’ve ever had One of the experiences because it requires total letting go. “
Later in the interview, when it came to past projects, Gyllenhaal dismissed The movie Jarhead uses the theory of real human and animal poop “as a way for you to get real reactions in the scene The way. “
But he said the production team did have “fly wranglers” “to put the fucking flies in there and make it look like real shit.
He also recalls working on other films where they would put sugar on him, “Throw flies in your face to make them look, you Know, like you’re playing dead or something, with flies flying all over you. ”
Guy Ritchie’s Covenant will be released in April.