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The Bill Simmons Podcast

Jake Gyllenhaal on Picking Roles, Filming in Boston, and Creating Characters (Ep. 265)

The Bill Simmons Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.529.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons is joined by Jake Gyllenhaal to discuss auditioning for 'The Sandlot' (7:00), his new film 'Stronger' (13:00), shooting on set in Boston (24:00), role models in acting (30:00), 'Donnie Darko' (38:00), the social importance of 'Brokeback Mountain' (48:00), Heath Ledger's legacy (58:00), filming a sports movie in 'Southpaw' (1:10:00), working with Tom Ford (1:14:00), and shooting a sibling thriller with his sister, Maggie (1:18:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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video that we take to Jake Jill and all last Friday in my office he has a new movie coming

0:56.0

out called stronger that is about a Boston marathon bombing victim named Jeff Bowman I thought

1:02.9

the movie was excellent I saw it last week and I was really excited of Jake on talk about

1:08.2

the movie and his career and a whole bunch of other stuff so we're going to do that right

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after the break wanted to mention quickly the ringer dot com my mailbag slash picks calm

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goes up every Friday I might be in a little bit of a cold streak that doesn't mean the

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comp can't be damn entertaining and also don't forget about all the good stuff we have

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of last week but it's we're now in the mix all the NBA stuff pop culture NFL politics you

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name it it's all in there the ringer dot com and and also the rewatchables which I'm not

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on this week but but I did speed last week with all my dudes and we have the Titanic this

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week with Julia libanum into dovins and cam Collins is going to be posted later this week

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and then next week's scream the longest one we've ever done who would get scream would be

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the longest rewatchable pods so anyway that's a great feed people really like that one

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