Jake Gyllenhaal suits up for the world premiere screening of Rendition at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007 on Friday. (He obviously did not walk with co-star Reese Witherspoon.)
Entertainment Weekly sat down with Jake at TIFF to answer a few questions. Here are some highlights:
What are your expectations for Rendition? A result, you mean? I don’t really think you really look for the result, I think the result is forced on you. I wish that people love the simplicity of this movie, the parable-like quality of this movie. I hope that they see that there’s no simple answer for both sides. Like, people say about Rendition, ”You made a political movie.” And I’m like, well, I didn’t think about that. Like I told you, I wanted to see what it was like when I wasn’t the guy in the truck watching the other guy walk away and being torn up. I wanted to be not torn up. I wanted to see what that would feel like. I didn’t want to be the boy in the bubble. [Giggles] I wanted to see something else.
Have you noticed any differences between your first time [at TIFF] through this one? I think my first experience was just so thrilling. I hadn’t been to many festivals except Sundance, and this was just a whole international world — and with just such an insanely wonderful cast, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon and all those people. When I came the next time [in 2005], we had just come from [the Venice Film Festival], for Brokeback Mountain, and we had just such an extraordinary response. I thought I was being punk’d! [Laughs] And with this one, I think you find a calm in it. I know a lot of the journalists, I feel like I’m a little bit more part of the in-crowd, the club of people who know festivals very well and know what happens, and I like that. More Here! »