Fuqua delivers a complete world and a sustained mood, with camera work that’s not merely arresting, but psychologically acute.
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Jake Gyllenhaal is addicted to baguettes from a high-street bakery chain. The conversation covers lots of ground and goes from tenderness to contention to resolution.
After resuming his acting career, and performing opposite child actors like he once was, he realized that maybe his parents made the right decision.
Boxing seems to inspire writers to invent stories of redemption, and that’s what Kurt Sutter has concocted in Southpaw.
Gyllenhaal doesnt mention if the fact that he missed out on three movies, rather than just one, made not taking the role even more painful.
At the end of the day, this is Gyllenhaal’s movie, which he commands with ferocity. An up-and-coming boxer from Columbia wants a piece of Billy – until an altercation between the two of them begins a rapid downward spiral, leading Billy to lose literally everything.
We hear that #JakeGyllenhaal likes to go HAM on a Greggs when he’s in London.
Gyllenhaal was clearly choking up when speaking of his deceased friend.
So when the original lead, Marshall Mathers (better known as rapper Eminem) pulled out of the project, Fuqua sought an actor who was willing to truly immerse himself in the role of light-heavyweight boxing champion Billy “The Great” Hope.
Success provides a person with a world of shiny surfaces, while grief grants us X-ray vision into the pain of others.
The 34-year-old actor trained as a pugilist for months to play Billy Hope in the new movie because he didn’t use a stunt double for his fight scenes.
“You start to believe your own hype, because you believe yourself to be a fighter, you’re in that type of shape it breeds a kind of confidence that is beyond normal – you feel like an animal”, he told Sky News.
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4 stars out of 4 stars. The film opens with his prep for his most recent fight, and we’re quickly introduced to his wife and constant support (McAdams), his manager (50 Cent) and his entourage.
