Rachel McAdams - Rachel's Role in "Southpaw" Discussion/Spoilers #1: We Can't wait to see her opposite Jake Gyllenhaal! - Page 11

amanda s. · 08-18-2014, 06:33 PM

I guess we'll see!

winterbird · 08-19-2014, 02:17 AM

Looks like they moved production to New York. Jake was spotted filming yesterday:

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Wow jake gyllenhall is right in front of me. Filming on my block
https://twitter.com/_QueenIvy/status/501494223955582976

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On the set of Southpaw with Jake Gyllenhaal.
https://twitter.com/FarazKhan/status/501430035518349312

Some instagram mentions:

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Feature Films on my block
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Jake Gyllenhaal filming #Southpaw in the South Bronx today #hollywoodonmyblock #boxing #southbronx #nyc
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"You were in the last shot, so you definitely can't be here." Hahaha, She doesn't know that #JakeGyllenhaal is my homie -- we go way, way back... I taught him how to rock hoodies. Catch me on the big screen. #SouthPaw
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Rikayla · 08-19-2014, 06:04 PM

when has rushed movies ever been any good? why would you aim for a december release when december is packed with good films that have been hyped for a while now...

if they're looking for a december release, then we should expect at least 1 trailer by end of september...

amanda s. · 08-19-2014, 08:30 PM

Yeah, I mean, I think it's doable because I really do think Ides of March was filmed in the spring and then released at festivals in the Fall and that was a great film, but I think if I were them I'd probably send it to festivals before I released it. I guess we'll see!

Thanks for all the sightings of Jake, Lindsey!

winterbird · 08-29-2014, 11:45 AM

Old sighting from Post Gazette:

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Forget NIMBY: Our backyards have been alive with the sound of movies being made. Aaron Paul invited the world to join him, Amanda Seyfried and Justin Long for a drink at Jack’s on the South Side during the making of “Fathers & Daughters,” starring Russell Crowe. Spotted at Meat and Potatoes, Downtown, were Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams, who play a married couple in director Antoine Fuqua’s “Southpaw.“
The big summer box office winner turns out to be a surprise - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

amanda s. · 08-30-2014, 11:44 AM

Thanks for the sighting, Lindsey!

winterbird · 09-04-2014, 06:56 AM

Jake is on the cover of Variety to promote his new movie Nightcrawler (which got selected for TIFF). Some interesting mentions on Southpaw:

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“A lot of people see Jake as a nice young Jewish kid from Beverly Hills,” says Antoine Fuqua, who cast him as a professional boxer in the upcoming Weinstein Co. release “Southpaw,” which had strong buzz out of Cannes based on a teaser clip. “I said, ‘Nah!’ He’s a man now. There’s something in his eyes that people don’t see. He’s got anger in him.”

A year after completing “Nightcrawler,” Gyllenhaal is still running. On a Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh, where he’s about to wrap “Southpaw,” Gyllenhaal is drenched in sweat on a gym treadmill. His arms and torso are now buff. He’s spent six months working out six hours a day to build enough muscle to look like a professional boxer. “We made a deal,” says his trainer, Terry Claybon. “If you’re going to learn how to box, you’re going to have to get in there and act like a boxer.”

Part of Gyllenhaal’s routine includes an eight-mile run, followed by time in the ring with real boxers — he’s trained at gyms in Los Angeles and at the Mayweather Boxing Club in Las Vegas. He even brings along a Variety reporter as he does some of his core exercises: pull-ups (I passed), abs (not so bad) and a squatting drill that involves flipping a 200-pound tire across the floor of a gym (I almost pulled out my back).

Wearing a hoodie and fake tattoos on his arms and neck, Gyllenhaal huff outs fragments of conversation during his sprint. It’s a rainy summer day in Pittsburgh, and the sky lights up with electricity. “Thunder is amazing,” Gyllenhaal says, making an imploding gesture with his fist. After four miles, he gets into the ring for a different lightning round. The gym thrums with hip-hop music as Gyllenhaal, his fingers wrapped in tape, flicks jabs at his trainer and another boxer. He shot most of the boxing scenes for “Southpaw” in the first two weeks of production earlier in the summer, but he’s now trying to prep for one last fight before he hangs up his gloves. “Two people have done this in their lives,” Fuqua says. “Robert De Niro in ‘Raging Bull’ and Denzel Washington in ‘The Hurricane.’ Those kinds of guys are rare.”

After his workout, Gyllenhaal sits on a couch in the back of the gym. Even though he’s exhausted, and his eyes look drowsy from just four hours of sleep, he says he feels reinvigorated. Many actors become proficient at a different trade to use as part of a role. “But for me, I learn a skill for what you don’t see onscreen,” Gyllenhaal says. “A line is a line is a line. But a line is something else when underneath it, there’s the experience of the line.” He admires actors most who understand what he calls “the art of the instant,” and then recites a line from one of of T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: “Quick now, here, now, always — ”

He says that when he’s working, he gives his director a conventional choice, which he’ll follow up with a bolder take for the editing room. “I always think of it as a bucket,” he says. “I’m throwing all these choices into a bucket. The director can pull them out and put them up there and cut them up the way he wants for the character.”
More: Jake Gyllenhaal on Losing 30 Pounds for Dan Gilroy’s ‘Nightcrawler’ | Variety

amanda s. · 09-04-2014, 08:07 PM

Great quotes, super interesting, thank you so much for sharing, Lindsey!

winterbird · 09-08-2014, 02:09 AM

Antoine Fuqua's movie before Southpaw with Denzel Washington "The Equalizer" premiered at TIFF. Currently watching the press conference and I'm hoping Southpaw will be at TIFF next year

Got to love TIFF. Jake is also in town for Nightcrawler (which is getting good reviews so far).

EDIT: New and interesting quotes from Fuqua during one of his junket interviews for The Equalizer on Southpaw and mostly Jake:

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DEADLINE: This seems a good time for you. You just finished the boxing drama Southpaw with Jake Gyllenhaal.
FUQUA: I’m so pumped, man. Jake is going to change how people see him. I had him training twice a day in the boxing ring, he did two-a-days seven days a week. I pretty much had him with me and my trainer every day. I took him to almost every fight. I had him train at Floyd Mayweather’s gym in Vegas and we watched Floyd’s fights, and the Manny Pacquiao fight. He trained in New York at Church Gym with real fighters. We literally turned him into a beast.

DEADLINE: You were a fighter. Could you kick his ass?
FUQUA: Oh, yeah. But Jake, my god, he’s a very electric, powerful fighter in this movie, and a guy who fights for his daughter. I’m confident that this will change how people see Jake, as a leading man. He sure has grown up. I love this guy. I met Jake years ago before he did End of Watch, and I saw something in him. I told him he needed to do more masculine films because I could see he had this power in him, and good size, and great expressive eyes. When I met him I said, ‘You’ve got to start doing that.’ And I watched him start. Working with him was a great experience because he’s so committed and gives his heart. You’re going to see in this movie, how far he has come. I asked this guy from day one, ‘I need you in the gym every day. I need you to train every day.’ And I said, ‘The word is sacrifice.’ Literally. I think he broke up with his girlfriend because he was just in the gym every day. He was training like a fighter. I had him sparring, really getting hit. I put him in situations where I wanted to see what he was made of. No one but fighters understand the sacrifice it takes to be a fighter.

DEADLINE: They say you learn a lot about yourself when you get knocked down and have to get back up. How did he handle that?
FUQUA: Oh, he got tagged a few times. By the trainer, Terry Claybon, who trained Denzel for The Hurricane. He got tagged in New York by a couple of fighters he sparred with, including Victor Ortiz, who fought Mayweather. Victor got him a few times, really laid it on Jake. I shot those fight sequences very real and there’s no stunt double.

DEADLINE: You hope that while he’s going down, he’s not shouting his lawyer’s phone number. How did he respond when he got knocked down?
FUQUA: He got up. He just kept going. I’d check on him when he got tagged hard. He’d say, “Yeah, let’s just keep going. Let’s keep it going.” And then later I would call him that night to see was he all right, and he’d be in an ice bath. I made sure all those huge fight scenes were done upfront. I tried to explain to everyone, even the producers, who thought I was crazy. I said, ‘I’ve been training this guy for six months every day to be a fighter, there’s no way for him to maintain that and hand him these dramatic scenes for 40 days. I needed the first two weeks to be all the big fight sequences right away, right at the beginning, while he’s in that mindset. Because he’s used to now being hit, punched, he knows how to move with his body aching. There’s no way he’ll sustain that from now all the way to the next 40 days, and perform.’
More: http://deadline.com/2014/09/toronto-...ington-830711/

Kelly_Dylan · 09-08-2014, 05:58 AM

I can't wait for this movie!

winterbird · 09-11-2014, 02:19 AM

I'm so excited as well. I watched a couple of TIFF Nightcrawler interviews last night of Jake and it's really amazing to hear how committed he is as an actor.

I wonder if the success of Nightcrawler will influence the release of Southpaw. There was an article who reported a December 2014 release which seems possible because they edited the movie during the filming. On the other hand it does seem really soon. I wonder if the distributor is taking into account that Nightcrawler might be an award season contender and they might want to wait until next year? Although Jake has a lot of promising upcoming projects so it's probably difficult to take them all in account when planning a release for Southpaw.

Rikayla · 09-11-2014, 03:05 AM

I really doubt SOUTHPAW will be ready for this awards season. If they're pushing Antoine Fuqua's THE EQUALIZER (starring Denzel Washington) for a September release (aka early awards season), I don't know why they would slot a second Jake Gyllenhaal movie to December, when they can better benefit from the post-Oscar hype of NIGHTCRAWLER - especially since it looks like Jake actually has a strong contention to win the whole thing. Don't forget Jake and his team are very Oscar-campaign-y (compared to the likes of Joaquin Phoenix or Viggo Mortensen, the kind of actor who would get nominated but would never play the Oscar game). So the likelihood of winning is so strong, they would do better if they push it to May or July. Probably not August though bc that's season for crap movies. Maybe they'll follow the same plan as THE EQUALIZER. Plus, Forest Whitaker is also in this. That's at least two Oscar-nominated/winning actors that can make the film do better than a rushed December date.

Plus, if they wanted a December or January push, there would have been an announcement already. Michael Mann's BLACKHAT is to be released in January and they've released stills already. Just because they're editing as they go (and I doubt that it's really hardcore editing, because the budget would have to drastically increase to whip up a commercial-ready release within months), it doesn't really mean that the film is 100% ready...

I think whoever said that they are editing as they go are just exaggerating things. Or maybe that it's such a common practice among Antoine Fuqua's crew, they probably do it all the time, that it doesn't mean anything.

winterbird · 09-12-2014, 01:58 PM

Good points Wendy!

I mean I already thought they announced the December 2014 release of American Sniper pretty late and that was only a few weeks ago. All the magazine cover and such are already booked probably as well.

Billboard confirms Rita Ora's casting in her interview:

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And she’s pursuing a new career path: acting. Ora has landed a featured role as Christian Grey's sister Mia in Fifty Shades of Grey (due Valentine’s Day 2015) and its planned sequels. She also recently completed work in a supporting role opposite Rachel McAdams and Jake Gyllenhaal in the Antoine Fuqua-directed Southpaw.

The new career probably isn't a surprise to her psychiatrist mother and pub-owning father, who escaped war and ethnic strife in Kosovo and relocated to London when she was 1: Ora was named after Rita Hayworth, the favorite star of her late grandfather, film director Besim Sahatciu. "I love impressions and characters and how they dictate a room," Ora says of her new vocation. "It's all about energy."
More: Rita Ora Discusses New Album & Calvin Harris: 'I Don't Control Other People's Minds' | Billboard

amanda s. · 09-12-2014, 04:47 PM

Definitely great insight, guys, thanks a lot for that. And for confirming Rita Ora's involvement! EXCITE.

nick1982 · 09-17-2014, 04:31 PM

Southpaw's composer has been announced:

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Harry Gregson-Williams to Score Antoine Fuqua’s ‘Southpaw’

Harry Gregson-Williams revealed in a recent interview with Film Music Magazine that he is reuniting with director Antoine Fuqua on his next feature Southpaw. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Naomie Harris, Forest Whitaker, Victor Ortiz, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and Miguel Gomez. The movie follows a welterweight champion who rises in his profession while his personal life falls apart. Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy) has written the screenplay. Alan Riche (Starsky & Hutch, Family Man, Deep Blue Sea) and Peter Riche are producing the project with Todd Black & Jason Blumenthal (The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, Knowing, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3). Gregson-Williams has previously collaborated with Fuqua on 1997’s The Replacement Killers and most recently on The Equalizer starring Denzel Washington, which is set to be released later this month. Southpaw is currently in post-production and is expected to be released in 2015 by the Weinstein Company.


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