Out of the Archives, 2005: Jake Gyllenhaal on “Brokeback Mountain”
Jake Gyllenhaal, twice nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee from the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx. The son of screenwriter/director parents Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner, the younger brother of actress/director/screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal, Golden Globe winner and five-time nominee, Jake grew up in a show business family engaged in politics, so he was aware of the cultural implications of portraying a cowboy opposite Heath Ledger in this landmark same-sex love story.