Jake Gyllenhaal covers the July issue of Esquire UK to promote his role in Southpaw. Jake plays a down-and-out boxer, Billy Hope, who has to claw his way back from rock bottom. He buffed up by eating extra meals and working out 6 hours daily. Jake badly wants an Oscar, and he really should have been nominated last year for Nightcrawler. Dude deserved the nomination over Bradley Cooper and the beige booty shorts. Both men underwent body tranformations. BCoop gained weight, and Jake lost it (but had the better performance). Now it’s Jake’s turn to show off a buff physique. Maybe this will be his year.
Director Antoine Fuqua says Jake was so committed that he refused a stunt double and “even broke up with his girlfriend because he was at the ring every day!” Here are some excerpts from Jake:
Why he made Prince of Persia and Day After Tomorrow: “I took things because they were jobs. I mean people are paying you money, you’re 26, are you kidding? I woke up one day and I wasn’t in the right room. It was like a David Byrne song: ‘That’s not my beautiful house. That’s not my beautiful wife.'”
His Southpaw character: “He’s a guy that couldn’t deal with his own shame. The director Ed Zwick [Love & Other Drugs (2010)] told me this wonderful thing: ‘Everything you learn is through shame.’ It’s so true. There’s those moments where you face humiliation, they’re so freeing if you can get through them … I didn’t do a boxing movie to do a boxing movie, if you know what I mean.”
On transforming for a role: “Physicality is a way into the mental state of a character. I get off on knowing that my energy has shifted. My technical side is going, ‘Yeah, you’re a bit of a maniac, but you know how to keep it in check.’ But it’s not like this huge deal. It’s that Louis CK thing, [about] when people say they’re ‘starving.’ Maybe you should rethink that word? You had a meal four hours ago!”
Empathy has a molecular, mystical quality: “I believe deeply in the unconscious. That you literally accumulate the molecules of the space that you’re in. We’re like 90 per cent water, so naturally we are going to be affected by the moon when it’s full: if the sea is, why wouldn’t we be? That seems scientific to me. So, if you spend enough time in whatever environment your character would exist in … then the molecules of that environment must transfer somehow. And then you put it on screen, and people go, ‘I feel something that I don’t normally feel.'”
[From Esquire]
The part about empathy relates to Jake’s belief that physically immersing himself in a role will enhance his understanding of a character. Jake is not alone in thinking that full moons affect human behavior (although the average adult’s body is 55-60% water, not 90%). Lots of people feel the same way, and there are plenty of people who experience headaches and various other ailments during full moons. The discussion is a little spacey, but all of the strange things that happen can’t be mere coincidences, right? Discuss.
Photos courtesy of Esquire & WENN
The Oscar campaign starts soon this time!
I know right?
And to add another point….
That molecular stuff…. That’s the exact type of stuff Miscovage and his scientologists hook celebs on.
Stop with that talk, you in danger girl… You in Xeno danger.
“You in Xenu danger.” You win! Best comment of the day hahaha!
And as a teacher, according to teacher mythology kids are more crazy when there’s a full moon. So one day I put a moon phase app on my phone to see if it was true. Nope. Sometimes there are those days when a lot of kids are exceptionally crazy, but in all honesty it doesn’t seem to have any relation to the phases of the moon. I read quite a bit on it, too, and the myth that more babies are born or more crazy people in the ER is just that. A myth.
It’s ignorant to believe that because we are the “all mighty human” we are independent from the universe in which we live, completely unaffected and not under its influence in any way. It makes perfect sense we are under the effects of the elements and space to me!
OMG! That is exactly what I thought and that I expect completely unrelated analogies from the likes of Jaden Smith, but Gyllenhaal? Really? I have to say it: the difference between the ocean’s water and our body’s water is hello! the ocean is a free flowing expanse. The water in our body is not. We don’t have tides, currents, or undertows. So no, the moon doesn’t affect us because of the water in our bodies. It affects us because we operate on a monthly cycle in relation to the moon cycles. I can agree we’re affected by space, elements, and such but not because we’re like the ocean.
On that. I’ve sent an email to one of the honchos at the Razzie Awards requesting that they add an award for “Most Embarrasing Campaigner” to their awards ceremony. Fingers crossed.
that’s an amazing idea!
Oh man this Oscar campaign is already annoying me!
Producer: Harvey Weinstein.
Oh. Well, checking my watch for the rumours involving a studio-approved girlfriend. Any day now, that train’s never late!
Did I miss something? Is he starring in a biopic of Bill Nye, the Science Guy?
“That sounds like science.” ::scientists everywhere faint::
Ok now I get how he hooked up with TayTay.
Haha I was going to say I don’t look at him the same way ever since he dated Taylor.
What is it with these actors with dispreportionate heads?? And it’s not super model bobble head sydrome either. These guys just have huge mellons… Their shoulders look narrow. Adam Scott and Zachary Quinto are also in this group. They’re borderline attractive and then suddenly I realize it’s not camera angle issues making them look like this. Is this a thing directors WANT for some reason? Like tall statues with warped features to trick a person below into seeing normal proportions?
90% full of sh-t.
Sorry, I had to. I don’t dislike the dude but anybody that says “that seems scientific to me” literally accumulates no molecular respect from me.
“literally accumulates no molecular respect from me”
I love you, mimif.
Exactly.
I’m still under the ‘Gary Dourdan influence’ so I can’t think straight. But it seems like Jake he has no clue. Dumb as a brick I would say.
Yes, but if his molecules vibrate enough and at the right frequency, he’ll just up and disappear a la Celestine Prophecy. You should encourage him, mimif, not put him off!
I think he confuses humans with cucumbers.
*clappity clappity*
This comment. This one right here is the reason that I have smoothie all over my monitor.
I know. He will forever be the Human Cucumber to me now.
Sea cucumbers obviously.
(I’ve always been confused by that name. Who thought they looked like cucumbers? Cucumbers do not have spines, and they definitely do not have mouth tentacles!)
African cucumbers have spines. Some people call them horned melons but they are all the same family
LOL!!!
Haha! This exactly. I was like, “90 percent?! We’d all be walking around with a squishy sound…”
I always heard it was no more than 70 (and now CB confirms it as 65).
It sounds like Jake’s done a few water fasts, absorbed too many molecules and gone soft in the head.
Is he saying he suffers from chronic tides?
Lmfao I just died a little.
YAAS PRATCHETT
That is the hardest I’ve laughed in days, thank you.
Maybe he needs some diuretics for all of that retention? Be fair Dr mimifOz. Or maybe you should study his poo first, before commenting.
Jake and I totally manstruate at the same time. #truestory
Yes, I wasn’t hating his comments until that moment when he lost any goodwill he’d begun to gain with me. Between him and VV, the dimness is strong this morning. At least Jake’s views aren’t dangerous.
Okay. You people a wiping me out this morning. (In an effort to retain more water molecules, PunkyMomma is donning plastic shower cap prior to covering her head with tinfoil cap and replaces coffee with bottle of Gatorade.)
Please do so with caution. I’m worried you’re going to accidentally electrocute yourself with Gatorade.
Ugh. He is so dumb.
The tide patterns–NOT the sea or water itself–are affected by the full moon because that is when the sun and the moon are aligned, creating a larger gravitational force to form the “bulge” of the tide.
If we wanted to get reallllllllly technical, the human equivalent of “tide patterns” would simply be our weight, which includes anything that weighs anything in our bodies, not just water. Since the moon and sun are “pulling” us away from the earth, the earth has a micro-fraction less gravitational pull on us and therefore we weigh less. Now, this is SUCH a micro scale thing that our weight only changes by (max) 0.000035%. To put this in comparison, our weight changes by 1% after eating a meal.
TL;DR: There is no lunar effect on the body, and if there is, it has more to do with mass than water. Eat a burger and you will feel 30,000x the “lunar effect.”
Science always wins.
Sorry, I think a woman’s monthly cycle is directly affected by the moon.
No Bex, a woman’s monthly cycle evolved originally from when we had marine ancestors whose breeding patterns relied on tides to provide the correct conditions. Men also have a monthly cycle in terms of testosterone levels although it is much less pronounced. If it were really true that the moon affected women’s menstrual cycles today, then all women would have an exactly 28 day cycle, which clearly we do not. And I say this as someone who’s 28-days-regular to the HOUR – I am the exception, not the rule.
Thank you @vilebody. You beat me to it.
Although I do know of certain animals that do seem to act strange during the full moon. Wonder why that is?
Thank you for this. He’s embraced some serious New Age drivel and can’t even get the basics right. I also think he has a really big head. Neither turn me on.
When I lived in Germany for a few years, in a village outside a big city, i became sensitized to the moon schedule. The newspaper would print it on, two-page spread, on the first Sunday: here is the moon cycle for the month and so you can plant flowers these days, see your doctor these days, do your hair on these days — and not THESE days. This was just a few years ago.. Salons would refuse to color/cut hair during certain moon phases, even in the city. A friend owned and ran a chic very modern busy salon in a good-sized cathedral city, and she would close on Full Moon days because even her edgy modern 20-something clients would NOT come in, NOT book anything. I thought it was weird but, I didn’t wish to be an American jerk, so I followed the custom and respected this view.
Then…I started to notice my Norwegian Forest cat and his village cat pals would be totally weird on full moon or blue moons. He’d be antsy.pacing in the house, and yowling, then his cat pals (the neighbors’ various little housecoats) would show up right after dark at the back terrace for him, and I let him out back into the fields. They’d run into the neighbor’s barn thing to sit around in the straw all night, or go down to the little river to sit by the little waterfall all night. He’d trudge back in at dawn and sleep for a day!
This didn’t happen otherwise. Never happened when we lived in a city in the US. But in Germany, I’d look at the calendar from the paper after he demanded to go — yep, full moon. So at this point, who knows. I was raised to think scientifically, but I know what i saw and it was kind of odd.. I asked my local vet and a woman at the Apotheke about it once. “But of course: full moon, that’s what happens. Watch the swans. Watch Josef’s fainting goats!”
So……I cannot quite jump on him for this. I never mess with the stuff I learned in my magical little corner of Bavaria!
But the molecules – yup, that I can side-eye all day long!
Many studies have been done that show this is total bull. The Wikipedia article on lunar effect has a full list of citations and is worth a read.
90% bull, or 55-60% bull. 😉
@embertine…but, wait, he’s an actor, he must know all that scientifical stuff, and he’s probably good at ciphering and such!!! Them actors, they be knowing lots of eyetellingent, smart folks stuff!
Here’s the thing – I do get an effect when the moon is full – but it has nothing to do with me being a 90% water cucumber person.
The only thing I can say that could have some truth to it, is the one about the evolutionary factors. Full moons involved increased predator activity, and an increased need for humans to stay vigilant.
I started tracking my insomnia so I could discuss it with my dr, and I looked back, and it was always during the full moon. My room isn’t bright. I genuinely feel a bit on the manic side during those times – I can’t sleep. I have increased levels of energy, I have the need to keep busy. And hey – it could be completely coincidental, but I did only notice the full moon part after I tracked the insomnia for a handful of months.
My Dr had actually kind of laughed because he had just been reading an article about survival traits that had never fully died out, despite us not having the same need for them. But this speaks much more to evolution than the moon – it just happens that the moon is what caused us to need this trait.
Erinn, sleep disturbances are the only genuine effect found to correlate with full moon, so that makes perfect sense.
More interesting is why our hormonal cycles probably originated with tides, but that involves a lot of geeking out about marine ancestors and circadian rhythm triggers so I’m going to shut up now.
Geek out! That’s the only thing that even interests me about this story. That and cucumbers.
I just googled lunar primates and it was muy interesante.
embertine: I second mimif! Geek out! I want to know!
Interesting fact: not only do women menstruate on a lunar (monthly) cycle, but we also lose and grow our eyelashes on a monthly cycle, which although is staggard so we don’t lose them all at once and have bald eyelids, they shed more during our periods.
It can effect sleep patterns, there is some proof of it. Especially if you’re very light sensitive & need complete darkness to sleep. The light change is also believed to possibly change hormone levels. We are very wired to be sensitive too light at night. Its why medical people & often cops swear by the full moon effect…. in reality its just more people are up at night during the full moon & more accidents/crimes can occur. I’m a nurse & have heard a Harvard educated doctor ramble on about “its a full moon”. Ask medical people or cops what they think of the full moon effect many will say “weird” things happen.
Jennifer, that is so cool, I did not know that.
OK, well I wrote a bit of it above, but it essentially comes down to this: because all mammals evolved from bony fish, our ancestors would have relied on tides to provide optimal breeding conditions, in the same way as many if not most marine creatures do today. Neap or spring tides are the favourites.
Now, evolution doesn’t work backwards, because it’s not designed – it just keeps moving blindly forward, evolving new traits and selecting out deleterious ones as they crop up. So the fact that we no longer need those rhythms doesn’t matter – they’re probably deep in our DNA and attached to all kinds of other important things, so we can’t “unevolve” them. In the same way as our foetuses develop gills before the gills fuse into the major blood vessels of the neck – we don’t NEED to do that any more, but evolution doesn’t care.
So how does it work? Well, a really good parallel is circadian rhythms, or how our bodies know how long a day is. Human body clocks actually work to between a 26 and 28 hour day away from the sun, and (as Pratchett puts it) get reset like a lot of little clocks at sunset. Our menstrual cycles would have been the same – we naturally vary in the length of our cycles, but back when we were in the sea, the tides and the currents would have reset us to 28 days like a lot of little clocks. Now we’re not in the sea, so our cycles vary wildly and there’s nothing to reset them.
Hope that makes sense?
Thanks for making me feel less stupidly dim – the moon cycle massively affects my sleep cycle which in turn kicks off some mind blowing migraines. Which has zero to do with any ‘woogie-woogie’ (as my husband tends to use as shorthand for anything outside of the ‘norm’… to my frustration at times) but simply – Go 5 days without sleep at all, see how well the brain chemistry functions! I get twitchy and unable to settle, my internal clock gets all wonky and it tends to cause things to go all… weird. (again, lack of sleep will make anyone slightly nutty). That said, it’s also usually when my best work is written and my more craft related work goes so much better so I actually do try to schedule big writing jobs and creative costuming work for those periods. It used to make my husband nuts because I’m a light sleeper at the best of times and he worries about the total lack of sleep on my health. Used to because it’s just shy of a week out of a month and it overcranks my WHOLE system… so let’s just say he’s found some personal happiness in times I can’t get settled and seem to just desperately need to be doing SOMETIME! lol
And it’s nice to know other folks have the sleep issue and there is a reason for it beyond my brain latching onto the idea that it has to be the full moon and not just coincidence. As oddball as my personal beliefs may be at times I DO try to hold onto remember that correlation does NOT always imply causation. I’m a hardcore ‘woodgie leaning’ science geek…
Oh FFS!
People can crap on George Clooney, but he along with David Duchovny are 2 actors who are truly smart, as well as sardonic, and self aware about their work without sounding like they’re disappearing up their backsides at the same time.
Thinking of Spencer Tracey’s quotes on the craft – “Say your lines and don’t walk into any furniture”
Ok the molecular stuff sounds like a bunch of crap, but I do believe that we are affected by those around us, their “energies” or whatever you want to call them. If you are around someone who is negative all the time it would have the same effect on you, things like that.
Then again, what do I know. I showed up at work today wearing a dress that I thought was pink but it’s actually red
I agree. I think if his point is the effect on people by their surroundings, he’s not wrong. He’s just explaining it poorly and using a bad example.
I like Jake a lot as an actor so for my own safety, I tend not to read too much on him because I’ll inevitably get annoyed. So maybe this article fulfills my quota for the year lol.
Yeah I don’t really have a problem with what he’s saying actually, it’s how he’s saying it. He needs to go back into his Moon Hut and work on his delivery because we all know this is going to be a lonnnng ass campaign.
Someone with Howling Moondogs should have compassion.
I hate actors who crap on their early movies like they are so much better than that now. And this dude sounds like an idiot — 90% water? Dont drop out of school, kids.
Me too! I was hoping someone else mentioned it. It doesn’t help that I like Day After Tomorrow. Just say they were fun to make, and you are gracious about having such diverse roles.
True. The Day After Tomorrow was definitely blockbuster fodder, but come on… it was major exposure for a young actor like him, practically everyone has seen that film. Why not be thankful for the jobs and chances you got as a young actor, even if you think the role was rubbish?
Yeah, except unfortunately he makes about 100x the money as someone who graduated from school. What does that say about our society?
http://i.imgur.com/k7Oidbu.webm
Nope sorry Jake – I have a feeling it’s Brad Pitt’s year and he will get the Oscar for By the Sea. And unfortunately for you Jake I have been correctly predicting the best Oscar actor winner correctly for the past 6 years…
I do like Jake though and he is a much better actor that cooper.
How do you know Pitt will win it? Has there even been screening for the thing?
Sorry, WHAT?
MOAR CUCUMBERZ.
Jesuss, Brad over Jake would be awful. I mean, he might blow me away in By the sea, but so far, in everything I have seen him, Brad is not an Oscar worthy actor.
People who work in the mental health professions see moods swing during a full moon with some of their consumers. This is not a scientific study but there is something to the full moon and the ocean affecting some people. The staff will say, it must be a full moon because the clients are restless tonight, true.
Yes, a study was done in A&E departments in UK hospitals because the staff swore blind that the number of crazy/violent incidents went up sharply if full moon fell on a Friday or a Saturday. The result? NOPE. It was just in their imaginations – they believed it to be true, so they noticed incidents on these days more than others. Football matches, on the other hand, yes. Total correlation.
Obviously a full moon during Super Bowl ’15 then, because that last play was just crazy.
@Mimif, are you asserting that Seattle threw the ball to Gronk because of lunatic molecules?
@Lilac, there can be no other logical explanation.
Brad Pitt is going to get an oscar for a film no one has seen yet?
When trying to sound deep in order to get an Oscar goes wrong. What in the Shaliene Woodley hell kind of pseudoscience, faux intellectual bs was that? Was that a line that they leftover from that Brad Pitt perfume commercial from a while back? He must have been on whatever McConaughey is always on when he did this interview.
+1
@jinni –
LMAO. Thanks for that. Now I need to get myself another drink!!
“Director Antoine Fuqua says Jake was so committed that he refused a stunt double and “even broke up with his girlfriend because he was at the ring every day!””
What a catch.
Ugh, exactly! We’re supposed to admire him for breaking up with his girlfriend because “art”? Yuck.
Hey Jake, Christian Bale has managed to be a method actor, WIN an Oscar, and apparently be a loving husband and father for more than a decade and counting. Soooo, maybe give the uber-pretention a rest?
I like that interview and agree in a way about the effect of the moon on some people.
In my country, some women – most leaving closer to the sea – said they were affected by the full moon (as they were giving birth). The research showed that it was 50/50! So it could be true for some and false for others.
I advice everyone to read his full interview and not just this short excerpt. (It isn’t even an interview because for example the first quote here is a patch of differents one in differents parts of his article.)
i hope you are joking about 50/50. There has been studies which revealed that there is no significant correlation of birth rate to lunar phases. “Some women said” sounds just as unscientific as it gets.
Come on. That seems scientific to me.
if you say so, mimif 😀 MOAR CUCUMBERZ, indeed.
If you would know more about the statistics, you wouldn’t believe not even to the study which would claim that people have nose between their eyes. There is a joke among statisticians… you don’t want to know how two things are made – sausages and statistics.
Counting is so overrated.
Most people have more than the average number of noses.
(There’s a handful of people without a nose, so the average number of noses per person is something like 0.999999999. Since most people have 1 nose, the above statement is correct.)
Stats are fun!
I agree that Jake was robbed of an Oscar nomination last year but the beige booty shorts were not the culprit.
I’m usually a Gyllenhaal apologist because I think he’s an amazing but unappreciated actor, but that interview was tad pretentious. The most off putting for me were parts about his craft and commitment. Reading about method acting is always cringey.
Also – is is it my bad luck of picking the wrong issues or are Esquire journalists always so douchey and nit-picky? Because every single Esquire piece I read so far has been negative, full of snarky descriptions of the interviewee rather than the actual quotes and seemingly trying to show that person in the worst light possible. At first I assumed that the problem lies with the celebrities but some of them are criticized for every single thing they do – walking, eating, ordering not what the journo would expect. It just seems like they shouldn’t even bother interviewing, because they know what they want to write from the beginning and nothing will change it. Interviews should be about Q&A and not about amateur psycho-analysis.
Maybe the journalists are all failed actors that are jealous of the ones that actually made it in the business, but yeah they are always snarky towards their interviewee. But I guess it’s better than the interviewers that are so over the top in their praise and worship of the celeb they are talking to that all you can do is roll your eyes as you read it.
yeah that commitment part really is ironic, maybe his ex see that a tiny bit different.
I remember that Christian bale has the same opinion on this sort of interviews and that everyone trashed him for that
Esquire definitely does those sort of too cool for school, snarky, semi-psycho analytical pieces. Either Gawker or Pajiba called them out on it once.
I actually respect it when very good actors take their craft seriously, and can appreciate them trying to explain a creative process and a work practice that is incredibly difficult to communicate outside the work or environment itself.
Although the lines between earnest, pretentious, mysterious and ridiculous can be thin (or *toned*, Lauren), I do guess I have more patience to try to hear what they’re getting at if I can hear their intention behind clumsy words.
Science is another matter, so to speak.
And Esquire editors take pride in their sort of fish-in-a-barrel take-downs… but you could write one of these in your sleep, because they are mad-libs searching for the worst quotes to fill in the snark set-up blanks.
He should have been nominated for Prisoners & definitely for Nightcrawler. He has some big acting chops but is becoming a “Joaquin” of being ignored.
Jake really was robbed of an Oscar nomination last year! He was really great (creepy) in Nightcrawler! Waaaaaaaaaay better than BCoop in the horrible American Sniper movie!!!! I know, I know, American Sniper made more money than the Pope last year, but it was really not a good movie. And the worst part is, because it made so much money…Clint Eastwood is going to get to direct more movies, and his last few have been a snooze fest!!
I thought American Sniper was a fantastic movie. It was extremely well done and like it or not, BCoop brought it. One thing you cannot call American Sniper is a “snooze fest.”
@MrsBPitt: I did not see American Sniper, but I did see Nightcrawler and yes… it was cringe worthy to the point of me thinking I needed to bathe in bleach after watching that film. And, I was nicely surprised, I really don’t follow his films, nor him. I did not think he had it in him, and I did not get why he, at least, was not nominated.
BCoop and the beige booty shorts earned that nomination. Yes, Jake deserved a nod too but BCoop is not the one I would have removed from the list
Have you seen Prisoners? He was excellent as the loner case obsessed cop.
I kind of dig JG for several reason, including 1) I like how he handled the Kikki Dunst split and post split; 2) I think his relationship with his sister is very genuine and special and I love to see them together; 3) He has really kept his feelings about Heath Ledger pretty quite and to himself; 4) He is a responsible pet owner, and I love candid shots of him with his dogs; 5) I like that he rides bikes around and he looks good doing it.. What kind of turns me off about Jake, he kind of seems like a classic pillow weeper.
I totally dig that he quoted my favorite Talking Heads song!
Yeah, actors who pontificate about random topics do come across as dim-witted (see: Gwenyth Paltrow and any actress who has recently become a mother). So, because of this and all on the list @Rhiley, I will give J-Gyll a pass.
I have a real soft spot for him too but I’m not surprised he sounds kind of spacey here. The guy’s basically harmless and a terrific actor so I can ignore his not so deep thoughts.
90%? lol, we’re cucumbers now.
I get what he tries to express and I think he might be right. But celebrities need to understand that such statements need elaborate and deep explanations and a series of variables that a 2 page fashion magazine won’t offer, it’s not the context to try to sell yourself as a intelligent and interesting person. That’s why while trying to look smart and artsy celebrities come out with such unnerving and dumb extrapolate and out of context statements. Stop trying so hard, if you’re an interesting guy you don’t need to SOUND interesting.
New Scientist had an article about this a year and a half ago… “Night Special: Full moon mayhem is for real”
I’m going to ignore the moon silliness, and just say that I really like what he’s been doing with his career lately. He’s making great choices, and I think has grown as an actor because of it. With so much hype about other people, I think he is really underrated and I like to see him acknowledged for his work.
Agreed.
Ew, anti-science.
I only clicked to look at pictures of Jake. People can hate on him, but he’s still adorable to me.
Me too he is just so good looking with a great smile. if I read what most of these people say would put me off.
The human body is more than 60 percent water. Blood is 92 percent water, the brain and muscles are 75 percent water, and bones are about 22 percent water. A human can survive for a month or more without eating food, but only a week or so without drinking water. He’s not that far off.
Too deep zen for me
While science says no, I was a bartender for over a decade and yes it brings the crazy out for sure. People act differently, more fights, people get drunk sooner etc. We used to have several emergency room nurses and techs come in and they said the same. One put it to me like this ” On a normal night it is car accidents, food poisoning, broken limbs maybe a shooting or stabbing, on a full moon though it is someone has a pole impaling them or someone has a fork stuck in their butt. More injuries the nature of which is more bizarre and usually self inflicted”. So while science finds no connection, I stand by full moon theories.
Correlation is not equal to causation.
I am seriously considering having this tattooed on my forearm so that I can just flash it at people when they say dumb things about science.
I’m keeping an open mind. Many nurse friends I’ve had from different places have made this observation, but I can’t break down their reports to see if it was merely confirmation bias. On nights I’m having a lot of trouble sleeping, the moon is full. Again…I could just be noticing that to a greater degree on those nights. But I have no trouble considering how our biology –pituitary glands, hormones — intersect with the NATURAL (not hermetically sealed buildings) environment.
http://science.time.com/2013/07/25/how-the-moon-messes-with-your-sleep/
Was he and his publicist drunk when he gave this interview?
Oh Jake, science is hard, isn’t it buddy? It must have really put him out to break it off with his girlfriend but that shows true dedication to his craft. *snort*
I worked at a job where people were 100% unhappy to see me. I could always tell when the moon was full because the customer’s attitudes would go from the usual grumbling and mildly unpleasant attitudes to full on anger, threats and bizarre behavior. This was month upon month…year upon year. I would be like wtf is going on and then it would hit me…the moon is full. I’m here to tell you, It’s not just a myth. The crazies come out with the moon.
this interview was…weird
is he always like this in interviews? i like him as an actor but dont follow him that closely
50 points off for “That seems scientific to me.”. 50 points for quoting Talking Heads!
We’re good.
I’m all for WaltWhitmanning it into the Body Electric, and whatnot. In fact, I know I have more energy whenever there is a full moon, but it never helps the oscar worthy image to try and root a mystical belief to science, but get the science wrong (i.e. 90% versus 60% of the human body is water).
Then again, I am a skeptic and poor. He is a Moonbaby and fabulously rich. Whose the real idiot?
Love Jake but his recent movies have been abysmal. I enjoyed Prince of Persia. He needs to do more campy or hi-tech action films and stop taking himself so seriously. Well, at least strike a balance. Nightcrawler just looked boring in the usual deep, psycho character written for awards kind of way. I enjoyed Zodiac and that kidnap film he did with Hugh Jackman but they’re all of that same gritty, urban horror type of genre. I want the mainstream Jake Gyllenhaal back. Source Code was badly conceived, I’ll give him that. But Price of Persia would have been right with a director with a more modern/tech sensibility. It could have been what Assassin’s Creed is going to be with the right people.
As an Astrologer, I am not even going to read these comments. I already know.
I agree with him, and Im very surprised he said this and opened himself up to the predictable ridicule. Im glad he did, though. I had to check his chart after reading this — transiting mercury retrograde (complications via communication/technology) conjunct his his tenth house (public image) gemini (talking) moon (personal feelings/self/who you truly are when youre most comfortable). A little bit of ’embarrassment’ via babbling was inevitable. However, it’s true. He really believes this, so it’s all good: the timing of this is beautiful with the full moon at 12 degrees Sagittarius — I wonder if he’s aware of that? Imagine he would be if he’s aware of such things, with being a Sag Sun. Expansive Jupiter on his Leo ascendant, True North Node. What a wonderful time for him, right now. This is the first step in him being true to the weirdo he is, and this article actually addresses that very inclination. Our charts are eerily similar — wow @ that. Anyway, wasnt he also in a movie that had to do with Astrology? This also makes sense, that he’d have researched some and absorbed, if he does immerse himself in his roles, as he says. Anyway, anyone with anything aspecting that would have felt some pretty incredible energies, about now. I know I am, with a Uranus-Moon conjunction at 11-14 degrees among other aspects.
Yay Astrology. Go Jake.
Imagine if you/he had the gumption to get through a read like Brian Green’s “the Elegant Universe” A basics book on psychics for the layman. How laws change re: relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics. The fabric of space, wormholes etc. The order of the universe in 3s. Explains a lot of supernatural phenomena w/out trying to do so. Everything is connected but vibrates differently. That could explain the effect on the moon or seeing ghosts which would be time space continuum curling around on itself . Such a great read w/simple diagrams
I strongly agree with Jake. Do you ever notice that when you are ill, you feel worse after 4:00 p.m.? I also believe the tides affect it also.