{"id":2293,"date":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/the-covenant-star-jake-gyllenhaal-explains-why-drawn-military-roles\/"},"modified":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T00:00:00","slug":"the-covenant-star-jake-gyllenhaal-explains-why-drawn-military-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fareshopbd.com\/the-covenant-star-jake-gyllenhaal-explains-why-drawn-military-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"'The Covenant' star Jake Gyllenhaal explains why he's drawn to military roles"},"content":{"rendered":"
Jake Gyllenhaal, who premiered his new war thriller “The Covenant” this week, said he is drawn to stories about the military because of the “pride and love” that people who “defend our country” exhibit. <\/p>\n
“At the beginning of my career, I played a Marine, a recruit, and I got to know a lot of people in the military and learned from them,” the “Jarhead” actor<\/a> told The Associated Press. “And I think it changed my perspective on the world sort of just being around and touching that world a bit.” <\/p>\n In the film, which comes out on Friday, Gyllenhaal plays an Army Special Forces sergeant who is rescued by a local interpreter he recruited. <\/p>\n When Gyllenhaal\u2019s character returns to the U.S. and “learns that [the interpreter] Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first<\/a>,” a synopsis of the Guy Ritchie-directed movie says. <\/p>\n JAKE GYLLENHAAL DISCUSSES PATRICK SWAYZE’S \u2018ROAD HOUSE\u2019 REMAKE: \u2018BIG SHOES TO FILL\u2019<\/strong><\/a> <\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal plays Sgt. John Kinley in the Afghanistan war drama “The Covenant.”\u00a0<\/span> (Christopher Raphael \/ Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures \u00a9 2023 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.)<\/span><\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal said playing military roles has given him a different “perspective.”\u00a0<\/span> (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/span><\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Gyllenhaal continued, “I have throughout my career played people who are ex-military, people who had a history in that, and I\u2019ve learned so much from that group. And there\u2019s so much pride and love \u2013 the people that defend our freedom – that I am drawn to that story.”<\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim, play a Special Forces sergeant and an Afghan interpreter in “The Covenant,” respectively.\u00a0<\/span> (AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/span><\/p>\n “The Day after Tomorrow” actor said he\u2019s also interested in playing characters in “extreme circumstances because I think it brings out the humanity in people.”<\/p>\n “And there\u2019s no better characters in extreme circumstances than a soldier, in particular, so that may be also why I\u2019m drawn to it,” he said. <\/p>\n His godmother Jamie Lee Curtis, who was at the premiere as well, also spoke to People magazine about living next to Gyllenhaal and his girlfriend during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal starred as a Marine recruit in 2005’s “Jarhead.”\u00a0<\/span> (Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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