Jake Gyllenhaal Is Sad That He'll Never Get To Do Another 'Nightcrawler' Scene

With his new crime thriller 'Nightcrawler', Jake Gyllenhaal put a lot of himself into bringing a particularly unsettling character to life, namely by losing a lot of weight. But what was it about this movie that drew so much commitment from him?

Jake Gyllenhaal looking gaunt in 'Nightcrawler'

Dan Gilroy's directorial debut has seen a stream of positive reviews since it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014, and that's probably down to Jake Gyllenhaal's overwhelmingly unnerving interpretation of insistent and rather ghoulish crime journalist Louis Bloom. 'Lou is a creation of the American dream', Gyllenhaal explains. 'We're all told about this conventional idea of what success is and he'll do anything for it. Ultimately, it's someone like him who becomes one of the most successful entrepreneurs in America.'

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The actor's attachment to the character, who presents the rather immoral situation of being an observer of grisly crimes in aid of a front page headline, was largely brought about by Gilroy's script. 'The highlight of the movie, for me, was the dialogue', he admitted. 'I just loved saying Dan's words; I followed them like an orthodoxy, literally word-to-word. If I messed anything up, I'd want to do it again because I think his words really are special. Every time we'd finish a scene and we'd move on, I'd always be sad that I would never say them again.'

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'Nighcrawler' will be theatrically released by Open Road Films on October 31st 2014.