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Jake Gyllenhaal Previews“Tomorrow”!by Lynn B.
One of the effects of global warming in the sci-fi film is a totally ice-packed New York City and 20th Century Fox thought we warm West Coast journalists deserved a little taste of a what the East Coast has been suffering. Not too sure what to expect, I pull up and wonder why there is an urn of hot chocolate outside on a table. Jake pulls up in a Mercedes wearing a short-sleeved white tee and asks. “Do you think I’ll need a sweater?”. Uh, yeah, think so, Jake. The actor was given a long-sleeved sweatshirt and a heavy parka. The temp inside the ice house was below freezing.. the “see your breath” kind of cold. Me, my big fur-lined coat and hot chocolate joined Jake and others inside a huge icebox room like a meat locker without the meat, where a big block of ice will act as the screen. We sit on carved blocks of ice topped with some anti-slip material and Jake stands up and looks around. “Hey, this looks like the kind of place where the Mafia would hang out”. We note the many ice picks stabbed into the walls and start to worry. Then…why we’re all here, “It’s my pleasure to present to you the deep-freeze debut of the new trailer for The Day after Tomorrow”, Jake’s breath comes out in fluffy white clouds as he speaks. “I’m in this movie with Dennis Quaid, Sela Ward, Ian Holm and a great new young actress named Emmy Rossum”. Jake glanced at a group of parka-clad Weather Channel scientists gathered to explain to us how a new ice age could really happen. “Since being in this movie, I realized how important the issue of the environment is”, Jake continued. “It’s not as innocent as I thought it was. The film is not only an incredible ride and an amazing film to watch, but it’s also about an important and real threat.” Okay, now we’re scared. The trailer comes on, shown on the glistening ice wall. Jake is waist deep in water in the middle of New York! We see tornados in L.A., hail in New Delhi, then a snow-locked New York (okay maybe not so science fiction this Winter). Huge weather mishaps engulf whole cities. Wow! This movie is gonna rock! Cool (in more ways than one) and scary effects. We all clap and Jake plants himself down next to me for a while to chat. “Hum, here goes my credibility”, says the actor, “I drove here in a Mercedes to talk about Global Warming. I should have come in a Hybrid car. Hey, where are you guys’ parkas?” At this point, the hot lights start melting ice off the ceiling and it starts to fall all around us in, thank God, fluffy clumps. Jake is taken away to join a press line and is asked to model his big parka with movie logo on it.. He does a model turn and the questions start: AGW: How did you feel about introducing a trailer in an ice house? Jake: When they told me they were going to be screening on a wall of ice it didn’t make any sense to me. I’ve always known ice to be clear. Pretty funny but it’s even funnier now. Everyone is freezing cold. AGW: What can we expect to see in the film that you can tell us about? Jake: Tornados going through Los Angeles, animals, enormous ships where they don’t belong. I’m not sure how much I can reveal. Right now I’m in the coldest room in Los Angeles. Forgive me if my brain is a little slow. AGW: Boy all the glamorous stuff you get to do as an actor. Freezing.. Jake: I have a pretty nice jacket on. Ice is falling on everybody’s head and it’s pretty cold. It’s not as glamorous as people would expect. AGW: You do a lot of small movies and this is your first big action blockbuster. How does that feel? Jake: It involved a lot of physicality unlike roles I’ve played in the past. I’m active while moving and running away from things. I didn’t have any training because the character is a normal kid. I didn’t think it would make sense to see someone in incredible shape saying ‘let’s getting ready for a superstorm’. AGW: You then went to a smaller film the adaptation of a play Proof with Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins. What was that like? Jake: It’s an ideal situation. I want to be able to make movies like this and I want to make movies like Proof. You know Gwyneth never told me she was having a baby? I never knew. AGW: Why should people come see The Day After Tomorrow this May? Jake: I think it looks like an incredible ride, really fun and entertaining and more than that, it has an important message about global warming and a situation that could possibly happen. We’re in a time where we find something that seems science fiction can actually happen. That’s dangerous and scary. AGW: Was it actually cold filming it?
AGW: What did you like about your character? Jake: He’s a normal guy, not a superhero at all. That’s what I like about him. He was a kid in a family. It was about how we all treat each other within a family under certain circumstances. You see that when things are neglected, what happens but that relationships can be healed and there’s hope. AGW: You play a lot younger than you are, right? Jake: I’m playing a lot younger. In high school. AGW: Were you like this guy at that age? Jake: I wonder. I made a choice in this role that I would try and just be present with the material and not try to create an intense character, just kind of be me. AGW: Any disaster movies you liked when you were younger? Jake: I liked Twister. I never saw The Towering Inferno. But nothing that really scared me. This is probably the first film that I’ve seen that is legitimately scary, fun to watch but kind of frightening because it could actually happen. We hurry back outside where it’s 75 degrees but look forward to watching for those tornado warnings this May 28th.
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It’s
a beautiful day in L.A. 75 degrees, crystal clear skies with a few fluffy
clouds; definite convertible weather unless you are closed up in an icy,
below freezing room with cute actor Jake Gyllenhaal! We’d better
explain. AGW was invited to a working ice plant in Van Nuys, California
billed as “the coldest room in L.A.” to watch Jake introduce
a brand new trailer for The Day After Tomorrow, director Roland
Emmerich’s first effects-packed spring/summer blockbuster film since
Independence Day.
Jake:
When we filmed the movie we were on a pretty warm stage and faked a lot
of cold. You guys are getting it worse here than we were when filming.