00:00I did have a very sweet woman on a plane, an older woman, come to me and say,
00:05came over to me, and I said, yeah, she's like, can I tell my son I was on the plane with Spider-Man?
00:12And I was like, you absolutely can't.
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,
00:40and 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 I 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, I just was so excited to be there.
01:15I remember that they, they shot the scene that I was in
01:19at John Burroughs High School in Los Angeles, where I grew up.
01:22It was pretty near where I grew up, and I played baseball at that high school.
01:27And so, so strange, there were all these like trailers there and stuff.
01:31And I have so many memories of that.
01:35I've been in many movies I, I wasn't in, in certain people's minds.
01:39It's, it's very inconsistent, like the movies that people think that they recognize me from.
01:45Though I would say consistently, like in that space, it's, it is probably,
01:49there is a lot of Donnie Darko, particularly now.
01:52There's been a, I think, you know, there's like a resurgence of a time
01:56that was once, was once cool, it's cool again, you know?
01:59So like, 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, she said, I said, yeah, she said, can I tell my son I was on,
02:14on the plane with Spider-Man?
02:16And I was like, you absolutely can.
02:19I'm a food person.
02:21So I, you know, I, I, I have had some really nice meals.
02:27I mean, I, I, I mean, I, yeah, big purchase.
02:30I mean, I remember buying my house, you know, that was pretty incredible.
02:34I lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles at the time.
02:37And that was, I just couldn't, I just couldn't believe it.
02:41You know, I remember the first time, a house.
02:44I remember Donnie Darko, this film I did.
02:48It 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, um, I felt very, very close to emotionally.
03:09And, um, 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, um, 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 years old.
03:26Throughout the years, Chris, you know, like, was just, has been, and always still is so lovely.
03:32Um, but when I was working on that movie, he was constantly helping me and giving me advice and 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 a, a great human being, as we all know.
03:50And I think there are a number of hundreds of people, maybe thousands of actors in the business
03:56that would probably say the same thing I'm saying about Mr. Newman.
04:00I don't really have those regrets.
04:02I, you 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.
04:11These are my journey.
04:11Some people ask me sometimes, like, oh, like, was there a role that you were up for, this and that?
04:16I'm like, I'm always like, these are, unless you're doing theater, which I think is a different space,
04:21you know, you're like, people play other roles, they're your own, whatever they are.
04:27I'm Jake Gyllenhaal, and those are some of my Hollywood firsts.
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