Little doubt Jake Gyllenhaal took moving into ripped and shredded form for the “Highway Home” remake very significantly.
“He positively had a really strict weight-reduction plan happening he was very clear about,” Gyllenhaal’s castmate Hannah Love Lanier mentioned on the movie’s New York Metropolis premiere March 19. “I feel one of many funniest instances was when he was consuming these rice paper wafer crackers. He was making an attempt to persuade everybody that they had been scrumptious. They weren’t. They tasted like cardboard, however he was actually making an attempt to get everybody to assume they had been good.”
Lanier recalled watching Gyllenhaal take off his shirt when issues bought too sizzling throughout filming within the Dominican Republic. “There have been a couple of instances when Jake must take off his shirt to type of get among the sweat going away as a result of you realize the Dominican Republic is sort of a sauna on the market,” she mentioned, earlier than including with amusing, “I feel there was slightly flexing happening when he was taking off his shirt.”
Rounding out the forged of director Doug Liman’s remake of the 1989 cult basic are UFC champ Conor McGregor, Daniela Melchior, Jessica Williams, Billy Magnussen and Lukas Gage together with Submit Malone.
“What number of instances do you might have a combat scene the place you’re going toe-to-toe with the world’s finest fighter after which one of many world’s greatest film stars?” Gage, who performs a bouncer in coaching within the film, instructed Selection. “I can say that I had a choreographed combat with Conor McGregor. How cool is that? After which Jake Gyllenhaal defended me. I imply, come on. That’s each woman’s dream.”
Then there was the wrap get together. “We skinny dipped within the ocean,” Gage mentioned, including, “We bought to stay it up.”
The movie marks McGregor’s appearing debut. “I used to be so fortunate to study from Jake,” he mentioned. “He has made an unimaginable quantity of films. It’s important to consider how arduous this one was. It was arduous work. It’s very arduous work.”
“Highway Home” is offered on Amazon Prime.
Replace: After the article was revealed, Gage reached out to Selection to make clear and demand that he was the one one who bought bare within the ocean.
