00:00I did have a very sweet woman on a plane, an older woman come to me and say,
00:05came over and I said, yeah, can I tell my son I was on the plane with Spider-Man?
00:12And I was like, you absolutely can.
00:14Hi, I'm Jake Gyllenhaal and I'm here with The Hollywood Reporter
00:17and I am about to share some of my Hollywood firsts.
00:22I think it was the court jester with Danny Kaye.
00:27I remember watching Danny Kaye and thinking, wow, he's having so much fun.
00:32And I don't know if it was a film itself.
00:35I think it was really just as a kid, just watching people perform
00:41and the ones that brought me joy sort of brought me in.
00:46Is it telling that I can't remember the first audition that I ever,
00:50because I was a kid, but I think it was for City Slickers.
00:55Wow, I realized I got the first audition ever, but I was a kid.
00:59I was, I think I was 10 years old.
01:01I remember flying to, I think it was to Billings, Montana.
01:05The first day I shot on that movie that I was so, I was just so in awe.
01:11Yeah, I think I just was so excited to be there.
01:15I remember that they shot the scene that I was in
01:20at John Burroughs High School in Los Angeles where I grew up.
01:22It was pretty near where I grew up.
01:24And I played baseball at that high school.
01:27And so strange, there were all these trailers there and stuff.
01:31And I have so many memories of that.
01:35I've been in many movies I wasn't in, in certain people's minds.
01:39It's very inconsistent, the movies that people think that they recognize me from.
01:44Though I would say consistently in that space, it is probably,
01:50there is a lot of Donnie Darko, particularly now.
01:52There's been a, I think there's a resurgence of a time that was once cool is cool again.
01:59So there's definitely that.
02:01I did have a very sweet woman on a plane, an older woman come to me and say,
02:07she said, came over to me and said,
02:12can I tell my son I was on the plane with Spider-Man?
02:16And I was like, you absolutely can.
02:18I'm a food person.
02:20So I, you know, I, I, I have had some really nice meals.
02:26I mean, I, I mean, I, yeah, big purchase.
02:29I mean, I remember buying my house, you know, that was pretty incredible.
02:33I lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles at the time.
02:36And that was, I just couldn't, I just couldn't believe it.
02:40You know, I remember the first time, that house.
02:43I remember Donnie Darko, this film I did.
02:46This film I did.
02:49It was such a sort of trippy journey through the whole script and then putting it into your body
02:55and, and telling it out in, you know, in, in, in 3D in the world.
03:01Like I had no idea what it was going to be.
03:02And it was also like the first thing that really felt like I felt very, very close to
03:08emotionally.
03:09And, and I think that's always, that's always scary.
03:12That kind of like that kind of vulnerability.
03:14I've been lucky enough to have a number of, I guess you could call them mentors in a way.
03:19Chris Cooper, when I was making this film, October Sky, when I was probably 6, 15, 16
03:25years old.
03:26Throughout the years, Chris, you know, like was just, has been and always still is so lovely.
03:32But when I was working on that movie, he was constantly helping me and giving me advice
03:37and support.
03:37I also was really, really privileged to know Paul Newman when he was around.
03:42And, you know, he, he constantly was just a wonderful support, just to a great human
03:49being, as we all know.
03:50And I think there are a number of hundreds of people, maybe thousands of actors in the
03:56business that would probably say the same thing I'm saying about Mr. Newman.
04:00I don't really have those regrets.
04:02You know, I like, I don't, I don't have a, I think you just slowly start to kind of go,
04:09these are all these things are meant.
04:10These are my journey.
04:12Some people ask me sometimes like, oh, like, was there a role that you were up for?
04:16Isn't that?
04:16I'm like, I'm always like, these are, unless you're doing theater, which I think is a different
04:21space, you know, where you're like, people play other roles.
04:25They're your own, whatever they are.
04:27I'm Jake Gyllenhaal, and those are some of my Hollywood firsts.
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