Jake Gyllenhaal Recalls Absurd & Massive The Day After Tomorrow Shoot
Jake Gyllenhaal looks back on the absurd and massive scale of The Day After Tomorrow shoot and how it solidified his feelings about acting. Gyllenhaal starred in the 2003 film as Sam Hall, son of Dennis Quaid's paleoclimatologist Jack, who is trapped in New York when a major storm surge brings in tsunami-like waves and flooding the city, trapping Sam and his friends inside the New York City Public Library. His father races against time to reach him before the impending new ice age freezes Sam and his friends to death.
Alongside Quaid and Gyllenhaal, the cast for The Day After Tomorrow included Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Arjay Smith, Austin Nichols, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Kenneth Walsh, Perry King and Nestor Serrano. Co-written and directed by Roland Emmerich and inspired by the novel The Coming Global Superstorm, the disaster thriller debuted to mixed reviews from critics, who praised the special effects and action sequences while directing criticism to the poor screenplay and ludicrous science presented in the film. Despite the mixed reviews, The Day After Tomorrow was a box office smash, grossing over $552 million against its $125 million budget.
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While appearing on Vanity Fair's series of actors revisiting their career timelines, Jake Gyllenhaal looked back on filming Roland Emmerich's The Day After Tomorrow. The Oscar nominee recalled the "absurdity" of filming on a "massive" heated soundstage in the freezing winter of Quebec and how it helped boost his confidence in his profession. See what Gyllenhaal shared below:
“One of the things I remember about that film, which I think it defines moviemaking and being an actor in movies totally, is that we were
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