Stick To Acting, Your New Baby, and Your Dawson's Creek Alumni Wife, Please
In last week's Entertainment Weekly, they featured an interview with Heath Ledger regarding his new film, Brokeback Mountain. As anyone who's not living in a cave knows, the film is about two cowboys who fall in love.
They talk about how difficult the love scene was between his co-star, Jake Gyllenhaal, and him. After director Ang Lee made them repeat it thirteen times, Heath states, "Neither of us wanted to do it again any time soon." You're straight. Got it, Heath.
Then he pulls this bon-mot out of his newly sore ass: "But in the end, it was just like kissing a person."
Um...ya think? Are you sure there, Heath? Are you sure it wasn't more like kissing a dog? Or Cousin It? Or a duck-billed platypus?
Maybe the reason it felt just like kissing a person was because you were kissing a person. What a douche-baggy thing to say.
Sigh.
Despite all this, however, I am still very excited to see this movie, which comes out tomorrow. And Mr. Ledger is supposed to be excellent in it, so hopefully his stupid remarks won't taint the experience too much.
4 comments:
Both Heath and Jake have been backtracking on the whole gay thing. Constantly shoving it down our throats that they're heterosexual. It sucks. Just promote your movie, not your sexuality.
Don, I said the same thing (this is getting old, I know, but I swear it's true). I read that line out loud to my sister. Jake is a person, dammit; and a beautiful, dreamy one at that.
Interestingly, Jake has said in interviews that he doesn't think their characters are gay. One review said the movie makes us wonder, are they in love with each other because they're gay? Or are they gay because they're in love with each other? I dig that ambiguity and how it embraces the mystery of falling for someone.
I love a good, heartbreaking film about inconvenient or unexpected love; I'm looking forward to this.
Lauren, I haven't noticed it with Jake as much, but I think part of that is because Heath just had a baby, so all these articles are like "He may be playing gay, but he just had a baby! He's a young, virile, heterosexual man!"
B, are you really having cowboy dreams? Please share.
Trish, I didn't know Jake said that. That is an interesting opinion...
inside source of mine told me upon a recent lunch with michelle williams, michelle actually had to yell at Heath (I actually thought his name was Keith) and Jake to "just get on with it and kiss already!" she had to yell at them to just "f--in act already" so they could finish the scene. sad they must make such a big deal of it
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