Rhythm Method

Jake sat down for a interview with Esquire UK for LaOD. It is a good solid interview. And surprisingly doesn't focus on Jake's personal life and relationships for a movie that is all about relationships and sex. He does talk about women, but it is more about the women in his films and his sister.

It touches on his career, talks about Jarhead, Donnie Darko, and Brokeback. Jake mentions his Brokeback co-stars and talks about Heath's immense talent. He talks about where he is at ease in terms of acting, but it is his last quote that is very interesting:

"Now is the time in my life and my career to be able to make mistakes. I think, creatively, mistakes should be made, lessons should be learned. I like to go after things that maybe are a little bit less what people would expect from me. Love and Other Drugs feels like a turning point for me. Once you have an experience like we had on that movie, you long for it again and everything pales in comparison. I found that with Duncan on Source Code - he allows the actor to have that. I'm at a very wonderful transition right now - deciding what I want to do next, and I don't know what that is."


Jake also give his tips for Doing a Sex Scene.

1. Remember - a sex scene is still a scene.

"Audiences have a hard time in some sense, real; that you're not drawing on what you know. Believe me, it's acting. With certain women it has to be."

2. Know your partner. It helps a little.

"Annie and I had already had sex on film in 'Brokeback Mountain', so I wasn't too nervous. Look, it is uncomfortable - no matter what. There are people around, and the thing about any intimate relationship is that usually, in the majority of cases, there isn't a film crew involved. There's something about the way Annie and I both work which is inherently very musical. It's all about rhythm. There's a rhythm to writing, there's a rhythm to sports and there's a rhythm to sex."

"We talked about what we thought was sexy, about what were the things that interested us, and through the discussion became pretty intimate with each other."


3. Accept the fact that sex can be amusing.

"It is funny. Sex should be."

4.Have a decent lawyer on hand.

"When we first talked about it I remember Ed saying, 'I'm going to do anything contractually that you need contractually.' And then Annie came on and the discussion with all three of us was, 'Listen we need to able to trust you. We want to have approval over things that we don't feel comfortable about, and if we feel that way then we'll be able to be free.' "


5.Let it all hang out. It'll feel better than you expect.

"Ed was a little worried about it. He was like, 'You're not going to be all buff are you?' It felt good just to be myself, naked."

"Eventually there was a real intimacy among the crew, a real respect, particularly for Annie, because as a woman I think it's harder. She said at one point, 'Well, we're both topless and we both show our butts.' And I was like, 'Hmm, but it's a little different for you.'"

6.Don't bring your personal life to the office.

"There were days when I would be in a crap mood. I 'd come to the set and something had happened or I was dealing with normal life issues, and I 'd have to seduce some nurse in a scene. I would have loved to be doing a scene were I was smashing my head against the wall."


And who will be waiting for the director's cut on DVD/Blu-Ray now?

"By the end of it I was naked in a lot of the movie. I was naked in more of it than was even in the final cut. A director's cut? I don't even know how that would be rated."



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