Here is part of an interview Jake Gyllenhaal did with The Sydney Morning Herald. For the full interview click the link. Enjoy!!


In Brokeback Mountain, Jake Gyllenhaal is the more stoic of the cowboy lovers, with milder acclaim than Heath Ledger's more charismatic lead. But if Gyllenhaal was shortchanged on cowboy swagger, he's got a definite testosterone surge in his follow-up film, Jarhead.


A sweating, bronzed Gyllenhaal is not all that surprising as Jarhead - Anthony Swofford's tale of a soldier waiting for the first Gulf War to begin - unfolds in a sort of simmering, all-male heat mirage: the Saudi desert in 1991.


A buff-looking Gyllenhaal passes through the surreal mayhem in little more than low-slung camouflage pants and a disbelieving smirk. In this piece, he's finally the alpha male: armed and, occasionally, dangerous.


Says Gyllenhaal,

"It's a little strange to me how these two films have played out. For me, Jarhead was tougher [than Brokeback Mountain]. It was more of a hyper-jock role, in a serious sense, than anything else I'd done. I think [director] Sam Mendes thought he was probably taking a chance on me. Whereas Brokeback, aside from having sex with a man, it wasn't a role a million miles from other stuff I'd done."