Jake Gyllenhaal is determined to star in another Broadway musical. “There are so many musicals I love so deeply,” Gyllenhaal, who starred in a revival of “Sunday in the Park With George” with Annal…
at the Los Angeles premiere of his new action drama “The Covenant” on Monday evening. “At some point, I’ve always loved ‘Gyllenhaal’s godmother, Jamie Lee Curtis, was at “The Covenant” premiere and recalled how the actor was supposed to star as Tevye in a school production of “Fiddler” when he was a high school senior. He left the show when he was offered the lead in the 1999 drama “October Sky.”
In “The Covenant,” directed and co-written by Guy Ritchie, Gyllenhaal plays an Army sergeant during the war in Afghanistan. After he’s injured, he returns to the region to help his unit’s translator escape the Taliban to come to the U.S. “Guy gave me a 60-page script but he never told me that he was going to be filming that section at the end of every day — me being dragged with fake blood and rocks and dirt and water being thrown in my face pretty much for an hour and a half every day,” Gyllenhaal recalled. “We’d put me on the cart, turn me upside-down and Dar would push and pull me up and down hills.”
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