Jake Gyllenhaal knows all about those «Jacked Gyllenhaal» memes. The actor — who is currently in intense UFC training for the upcoming remake — recently sat down with ET's Cassie DiLaura to discuss his new film,, and weigh in on the internet's unquenchable thirst for his movie muscles.«That's a wonderful nickname,» he joked. «It's been an incredible experience and it is [amazing] working with actual real fighters, working with the UFC, reimagining a classic.
There's been a lot of the physical [work].»That's not to say that filming was a walk in the park. The Guy Ritchie-directed film drops the actor into the middle of the United States' War in Afghanistan.
Gyllenhaal plays U.S. Army Sergeant John Kinley, who is saved from the Taliban by his local interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), and has to repay the favor when Ahmed is endangered by his actions.«I think it's a movie about doing good reluctantly,» Gyllenhaal said of , which was also written by Ritchie, along with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies. «It's not full of sentimentality.
It's two guys who are sort of in an arranged marriage, because at the beginning of the movie, my character loses his interpreter and then they're assigned to each other.
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