Director Thomas Bidegain is coming to Jake Gyllenhaal‘s rescue and setting the document straight about what occurred on the set of their film.
Earlier this week, Gyllenhaal made headlines after a French journal made claims that the “Southpaw” displayed erratic habits on the set of the anticipated film “Immediately,” leading to an finish within the undertaking.
French Director Clears The Air About Jake Gyllenhaal
Bidegain lately cleared the air about why Gyllenhaal and Vanessa Kirby exited his undertaking “Immediately” after a earlier interview with a French journal reported that the BAFTA winner exhibited problematic behaviors, leading to a lack of $26 million.
In response to the French Director, he parted methods with Kirby and Gyllenhaal strictly due to variations in inventive selections and nothing to do with the actor’s alleged vile actions.
The journal Technikart alleged in a column titled “4 Days to Bury a Film” that the 43-year-old “stripped all the way down to his underwear and jumped within the freezing chilly sea in entrance of the entire crew.”
In one other occasion, Gyllenhaal reportedly specified that the colour of his rent automotive ought to neither be crimson nor white and mockingly learn the script aloud in mock French accents like “Pepe Le Pew.”
Whereas Bidegain didn’t straight deny nor affirm the allegations, he instructed Variety Magazine, “Folks don’t perceive how a movie is made. We weren’t capturing, and we weren’t in pre-production. The tentative date of the shoot was eight weeks away. This undertaking got here collectively throughout the pandemic, so we had solely mentioned through Zoom. We’d discuss each week, however we had not met to speak concerning the movie.”
He continued, “So I got here up with the thought of establishing that week in Iceland to learn the script collectively, with Jake and Vanessa. I believed it might be good to fulfill there because it was the place we had been considering of capturing the film, and it’s a stupendous place.”
The filmmaker famous that because the undertaking progressed Gyllenhaal turned a producer as he was wanting ahead to having extra inventive enter within the Indie film. “I did loads of Zooms with Jake and Vanessa, so I believed the three of us had been on the identical web page. So after we met in Iceland, I assumed that we might simply put the ending touches on it,” Bidegain stated of his expectation.
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Nonetheless, the reverse was the case after they met in particular person. “However after we began studying the script in the identical room, we realized that we didn’t have in any respect the identical imaginative and prescient of what the movie was meant to be,” Bidegain confessed. “They wished increasingly more adjustments. I attempted to clean issues over as soon as, twice — after which I simply realized it wasn’t going to work out, so it needed to cease.”
There have been additionally disagreements on what the most important theme of the film must be. As well as, Bidegain revealed that after the disagreements, Kirby approached him and requested if she may purchase the script, however she turned him down.
Followers Consider Jake Gyllenhaal Purposely Terminated The Mission
Following the reviews of Gyllenhaal’s rumored habits, followers took to Twitter to defend him, claiming he solely acted that means as a result of he wished to be carried out with the undertaking.
“Inform me you’re attempting to get fired with out telling me you’re attempting to get fired…,” wrote one fan whereas penned, “Appears like he was purposefully attempting to get fired to get out of the undertaking,” sharing the identical sentiment.
An indie film ‘SUDDENLY’ fell aside after Jake Gyllenhaal confirmed erratic habits, together with:
• Stripping to his underwear & diving into the freezing ocean, saying “after I see the ocean, I swim within the sea”
• Fixed script rewrite calls for
• Doing his rehearsal in a Pepe Le… pic.twitter.com/8DiOwC55kQ— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) January 31, 2024
The same remark learn, “Appears like he simply wished to get out of the film. However I’d watch a film with Jake doing a Pepe Le Pew accent the entire time.” One other humorous remark learn, “Appears like an Oscar-worthy efficiency.”