A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma

Jake's newest interview in Details makes you wonder...who is he?  Or is more like...what's he trying to say he is?

Is he the smiling guy next door seen in so many paparazzi shots, the dark philosopher who buries himself deeper in each successive role, or simply a wily, charismatic chameleon? Take your pick.

 As Gyllenhaal's body of work grows, he only gets harder to peg.
"My whole life," he says, "I'd come to a scene and just ask for something real. I'd say, 'Please, just tell me what's going on. All the research, how your character picks up a fork, it'll all come when we know the truth.'" He's talking about a personal and professional evolution that accelerated during the months of his preproduction involvement in 2011's Source Code. The story—a soldier is enabled by technology to relive eight crucial minutes, over and over, until he gets it right and saves the world—resonated deeply with him. "Now the time's come to turn that on myself"—searching, over and over, for the truth—"and it's 'Game on.'"
"Every journey starts with fear," he says. "And I could say that's what I want to embrace now. A real experience. Connection with the people I'm working with, so I'm helping them make something. And I want, overall, to trust what I know is right. There have been many times when I haven't. If that's what you asked, it's what I'm asking myself now: Where is the line? What is the line?

"I grew up on the other side of the camera," Gyllenhaal says. "And yes, I do love making movies as much as being in them. I love actors, watching what they do, and I do love acting off-camera, and how it helps tell the story. But the camera eventually does turn to you, and then it's a very different question. I don't know if I have the answer to it yet.
Is Jake starting to shake off the cloak and revealing more of himself? Is this beginning of something bigger?

And Soul Cycle - well that is over- so anybody who tweets they've seen him there,  you might want to put that in the #nottruetweet pile.

"I haven't cycled in a long time," he preempts. "Ask me where I run."
"Where do—"
"I don't run anymore. Do I take care of my body and take conditioning seriously? Yes. But exercising regularly doesn't fit the energy of the character I'm playing now."
Speaking of cycling .... some Olympic style for Two Wheel Tueday

And now OMG Olympic Style Cycling

OMG Olympics

Big Trike Racing.  Grab the helmets and pull on the spandex. It's a serious test of balance, (ok not so much balance) skill, and speed.  It's track tricycles.  Imagine trying to get a peloton of trikes. Happy Two Wheel Tuesday.

Variations on a Theme

The pilot I did for Showtime, RAY DONOVAN, was picked up to series. @SHO_Network @SHO_PR - AUS10

Great news  about the pilot getting picked up and better news for us that we will get to more of Austin in the year ahead.

How much of Austin  will we see when he's on screen with his character and Showtime's history... quite possibly a lot.

Tommy Jenkins...Cocky, and intelligent movie star who loves to break the rules and take chances....But Tommy finds himself in hot water with the press when he is caught with a prostitute, and he now must turn to Ray for help.

  And not just  a prostitute but one with shall we say a little something something extra.

Brash, cocky, smart, the character gives Austin a chance to show off what he's been hiding behind that devilish grin.....

 Now  will it be the Parking garage?  or  Behind a restaurant? 

 No doubt Austin doesn't have to look far for background on a rule breaking movie star who's found himself in hot water.

It's an role that could bring him one step closer... step by step.

Go Austin Go.

And since it's Tuesday, it's Two Wheels.... here's a LA salute.

New steps from old ones.

Good to see Jake at enjoying Rufus' Luminato concert last night in Toronto.  And  good to see little traces of a Jake we know has always been there despite the cloak of misdirection.

And while it seems like such a small thing, it is sometimes those little things that are signs to something bigger.

Jake's been a fan of Rufus for a long time.   From belting out Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk with Kiki and friends at an early show to catching Rufus doing Judy twice, he took a break for a while but now he's back.

It's good to see him starting to retrace some steps he took before, maybe they will lead  closer to the destination.

 And maybe instead of trying to hide  away so much,  just go with it Jake have fun and enjoy all you've got going and how much more you can have.

It was almost exactly 5 years ago  (June 8, 2007) - Jake  was helping Rufus out


In Berlin the joke was Jake was obsessed with the number 5.  Could be very good things happen in 5's for Jake.  ; )   And 5's in years is sign to good things to come.