Jake Gyllenhaal’s Killer Instinct
Good morning: In today's edition of The Industry, we look at:
Jake Gyllenhaal’s guilt, Peter Dinklage's twin, Ayo Edebiri's hunt, Janus Films goes with the Flow and a leopard.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is drawn to death.
In his most recent project, the Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent, he plays a married prosecutor accused of murdering his mistress
The newly released trailer (below) paints two distinct sides of Gyllenhaal. One one of which is familiar territory:
Devoted family man
Man on the edge of death, as seen in:
Donnie Darko (2001)
Zodiac (2007)
Nightcrawler (2014)
The latter category is the cornerstone of what makes a Gyllenhaal performance so watchable because whether he is reckoning with his own demise (Donnie Darko), hunting a killer (Zodiac), or filming deadly crimes (Nightcrawler), he is perpetually tormented.
And we like to see Gyllenhaal breaking at the seams.
In Presumed Innocent, when Gyllenhaal is caught having texted his mistress 30 times on the night of her murder, he begins to spiral, proclaiming: