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thank you glosoli,beauitful cover ! i cant read the interview though,it's too tiny.
what is she promoting?
what is she promoting?
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oh ok,thank you for the update
sherrybaby is an amazing film,she should have won that golden globe award for sure! if you havent seen it,go watch it
sherrybaby is an amazing film,she should have won that golden globe award for sure! if you havent seen it,go watch it
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Maggie Gyllenhaal @ Qatar Airways gala to celebrate their inaugural flights to NYC, June 28
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard leave 8-month-old daughter Ramona at home in favor of an evening out at New York's Lincoln Center on Thursday, where they took in a special performance by Diana Ross.
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i lke the dress but she overdid it with a sweater under it
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i guess it makes sense then.in that case,i just like the dress part of it,and not the sweater part
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Interview with Maggie from The Independent {independent.co.uk}
The indie queen: Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her role as a sex-crazed ex-con Interview by Liz Hoggard
Published: 26 July 2007
When I tell Maggie Gyllenhaal that I first saw her new film, SherryBaby, on a plane, she becomes very animated. "Did you see it with all the sex scenes cut out? Someone told me they watched it on British Airways and they'd cut all the sex out, which I think would drastically change it," she adds, indignantly.
With her heart-shaped face, blue eyes and rosebud mouth, it's strange that directors often cast Gyllenhaal in raw sex scenes. Dubbed the queen of indie cinema, Gyllenhaal has a delicate, wholesome beauty. She's also film royalty: her younger brother is the actor Jake Gyllenhaal; her father the Swedish-American director, Stephen Gyllenhaal (Waterland, Paris Trout); her mother the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Naomi Foner.
Gyllenhaal, now 29, first came to our attention in Secretary (2002), where she played the suicidal Lee, who finds self-empowerment in an S&M relationship with her boss. The film could easily have been anti-feminist or exploitative, but she brought a quirky innocence to the role, and it became a plain, old-fashioned, love story.
And now, in the low-budget SherryBaby (for which she received a 2007 Golden Globe nomination), she plays a drug addict just out of prison, whose sexual frankness challenges many of the men she encounters. "It's pretty sad sex," Gyllenhaal tells me. "By the third scene of the movie, she has shed all her clothes. My point of view when I was shooting it was: 'I've been in prison for three years, yeah I'd love to f*ck you, let's take our clothes off. I want to have an orgasm. I want to feel good.'"
Gyllenhaal has a reputation for intelligent, left-field choices. She says that she is interested in films that offer a more "honest" version of women. Recently we've seen her in Marc Forster's Stranger than Fiction, playing an anarchist baker; and in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, as the pregnant wife of one of the two police officers pulled from the rubble of the building.
Gyllenhaal has screwball glamour. She has been the face of Miu Miu and is regularly seen in the front row at Marc Jacobs shows. But today she is dressed down in jeans and a cream top. Her skin is luminous, and she is surprisingly tall (at 5ft 9in). Last October she gave birth to her daughter Ramona and she moves around the room with purpose: you don't mess with Maggie. She has been with her fiancé, the actor Peter Sarsgaard, 36, (Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass) for five years. They are seen as something of a wonder-couple (Sarsgaard was nominated for a Golden Globe for Shattered Glass) but live a resolutely low-key existence in New York's West Village.
She followed Secretary with roles in Adaptation (as Nicolas Cage's girlfriend), and Mona Lisa Smile, where she played the mouthy bad girl to Julia Roberts's 1950s schoolteacher. She was terrific, but found making a big-studio picture frustrating. She has concentrated on smaller independent films such as John Sayles's Casa de los babys, and Criminal, with John C Reilly, where she transformed her character from a predictable femme fatale.
She likes an input. Gyllenhaal prefers working with directors with whom she can have a "real live conversation". On her first day with Stone, he burst out laughing: "Oh, you're a Do-I-Have-To?!".
"It's always very intense with me," she admits. "Always." But it is SherryBaby that confirms her as an actress of weight. She is unrecognisable as herself playing a blonde, gum-chewing, single mother. Not only does her character, Sherry, need to regain custody of her daughter, but she also has personal demons to confront. "At the start I don't think Sherry is in a tortured place at all," Gyllenhaal says. "I think she is in such a broken place that I don't think she has the luxury to let herself feel any of the pain she comes up against. I think the only tool that she has is this naive, fierce hopefulness."
Sherry is a great, ballsy, female character, and not entirely likeable. Stunted emotionally by prison, she's convinced that she's going to be the best mother ever, without doing the work. "She's very self-consumed. She thinks she's going to revolutionise everything, she's just so childlike and young."
It's refreshing to see the chic Gyllenhaal in itsy miniskirts and plunging halterneck tops. She got very involved in choosing Sherry's clothes. " There was a fantastic wardrobe, but I thought: 'You guys are making some judgment about this girl.' I think that she has to believe that her clothes are beautiful and that they're the clothes of a professional woman, and why can't a professional woman be very sexy? After all, everyone chooses clothes as a way of articulating something about themselves to the world."
The raw sex scenes make sense. When I suggest that a desperate person might well give a blowjob to get a job and custody of their child, Gyllenhaal nods in passionate agreement. "I know, I know. That's the same way I thought: 'Is there a way I can, not only justify it, but ethically justify it?' Because I think she's religious, so is there way that God could watch me do this and say, 'Good on you?' That's really tough, and it takes someone who's incredibly smart to do that puzzle in her head."
In the film Sherry begins a relationship with an older man, played by Danny Trejo. Gyllenhaal reveals that Trejo found the nudity troubling. "I remember he had to take my shirt off. He's a kind man in the film, and he turns me around and looks at me. And Danny said: 'It's not kind, I don't think it's the right thing to do', and the director, Laurie [Collyer], and I, who are both women, said immediately, 'It can be kind and it can be hot!'"
The first time I met Gyllenhaal – promoting Secretary – she impressed me with her intelligence and sparkiness. She openly admitted that she had fought with the director to make sure that her character, Lee, didn't become a passive victim, or kinky sex-goddess. She even lamented the fact that she'd had a bikini wax for the film's nude scenes. "I think my vanity compromised the authenticity of the character," she told me, engagingly.
There was a real sweetness to the 24-year-old Gyllenhaal. Today, she has learned to guard her privacy in an industry that devours young female starlets whole. She is articulate, rather than warm. But she is also shattered after a fashion shoot, and is dying to rejoin her baby. Ask her about her role in SherryBaby, however and she still lights up. She is enormously proud of the movie, but admits that she and Collyer had a very tempestuous relationship.
"I think that she thought that I would be tougher, or more the fantasy of what someone would think a woman who had been in jail would be like. Yes, Sherry is incredibly tough, but in order to turn some of the horrible things she comes up against into pleasure, to turn them into something she believes is ethically good, it takes an amazing brain and a lot of power to survive. But it's not showy power necessarily."
Gyllenhaal was born in New York in 1977. Her father is a descendant of the Swedish aristocratic Gyllenhaal family; her mother is Jewish-American. She and her brother attended LA's prestigious Harvard-Wakeland prep school. At 15 she acted in her father's film Waterland. He also cast her in small roles in A Dangerous Woman and Homegrown, both of which also featured her brother, Jake.
She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in literature and Eastern religions, and spent a summer studying at Rada in London. Small roles followed in 40 Days and 40 Nights, Riding in Cars with Boys, and Cecil B DeMented (where she shone as a Satanic make-up artist). She became good at fashioning something out of nothing, she says.
At first, Jake had the more successful career, including a starring role in the cult hit Donnie Darko (Maggie had a cameo as his sister). Ever since, the press has been obsessed with fostering tales of sibling rivalry. "I am so bored of that question," she told me in 2003.
For years she didn't get roles because she wasn't considered pretty enough. But everything changed when Steven Shainberg cast her in Secretary. She grew up as a woman on the movie screen. A five-year relationship with an artist ended, and she met Saarsgard at a dinner party.
Interestingly, these days she has a clause in her contact where directors have carte blanche over nudity during filming, but she can decide on the final edit.
Gyllenhaal would love to do more theatre – Tony Kushner gave her the lead in Homebody/Kabul after seeing her on stage in Closer. But first she is making Christopher Nolan's movie The Dark Knight – his follow-up to Batman Begins. In it, Gyllenhaal plays Christian Bale's love interest. Replacing the anodyne Katie Holmes with Gyllenhaal seems a masterstroke. Gyllenhaal is very sure that she's not playing "some generic lady in a dress." And already she is raving about the collaboration with Nolan. "You think, 'Oh it's Batman, it's a big movie', yet we've had really interesting discussions about the script, and he's changed things based on conversations we've had. I think it could be a really good movie, not just for Batman fans but for everybody."
A committed Democrat (she drove people to the polls during the last presidential election), Gyllenhaal demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq and, in 2005, achieved notoriety when she was quoted as saying America was " responsible in some way" for the September 11 attacks. After the backlash (her fan-site had to be shut down), she issued a statement saying that September 11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world".
As an actor, she is, she says, obsessed with trying to represent the way human beings really behave. She filmed SherryBaby in 2004, before she had a child. Would she play it differently now? "Probably, because having a baby changes everything, but I'm really glad I didn't because I don't really think Sherry is a mother until maybe the last 10 seconds of the film. She has a fantasy of what a mother is, which is exactly what I had when I went in to make the movie."
Since our chat, and in the days leading up to the UK release of SherryBaby, the news has broken that Gyllenhaal is the new face of Agent Provocateur, replacing Kate Moss. It's a brilliant coup for the lingerie company – Gyllenhaal will bring a new brand of intelligent eroticism – but one wonders about the actress's motivation. Does she really want that level of press exposure? To her horror, her pregnancy became a celebrity occasion.
"I know many people have much harder things to worry about, but there were 30 paparazzi outside my house when I went to hospital to give birth. They were horrible, and you're very powerless, which is a hard position. With a new baby that's something to be honoured and to be very, very delicate around, and I felt that was really out of line." Even today, she says, they stalk her, trying to catch her breastfeeding or changing diapers.
For a moment, her voice falters, but there's no danger of Gyllenhaal toning down. Making SherryBaby almost became a political act, she says. "If you can make a movie about someone who's that troubled and you invite the audience to love them anyway, it's a way of practising being compassionate."
The indie queen: Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her role as a sex-crazed ex-con Interview by Liz Hoggard
Published: 26 July 2007
When I tell Maggie Gyllenhaal that I first saw her new film, SherryBaby, on a plane, she becomes very animated. "Did you see it with all the sex scenes cut out? Someone told me they watched it on British Airways and they'd cut all the sex out, which I think would drastically change it," she adds, indignantly.
With her heart-shaped face, blue eyes and rosebud mouth, it's strange that directors often cast Gyllenhaal in raw sex scenes. Dubbed the queen of indie cinema, Gyllenhaal has a delicate, wholesome beauty. She's also film royalty: her younger brother is the actor Jake Gyllenhaal; her father the Swedish-American director, Stephen Gyllenhaal (Waterland, Paris Trout); her mother the Oscar-nominated screenwriter Naomi Foner.
Gyllenhaal, now 29, first came to our attention in Secretary (2002), where she played the suicidal Lee, who finds self-empowerment in an S&M relationship with her boss. The film could easily have been anti-feminist or exploitative, but she brought a quirky innocence to the role, and it became a plain, old-fashioned, love story.
And now, in the low-budget SherryBaby (for which she received a 2007 Golden Globe nomination), she plays a drug addict just out of prison, whose sexual frankness challenges many of the men she encounters. "It's pretty sad sex," Gyllenhaal tells me. "By the third scene of the movie, she has shed all her clothes. My point of view when I was shooting it was: 'I've been in prison for three years, yeah I'd love to f*ck you, let's take our clothes off. I want to have an orgasm. I want to feel good.'"
Gyllenhaal has a reputation for intelligent, left-field choices. She says that she is interested in films that offer a more "honest" version of women. Recently we've seen her in Marc Forster's Stranger than Fiction, playing an anarchist baker; and in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, as the pregnant wife of one of the two police officers pulled from the rubble of the building.
Gyllenhaal has screwball glamour. She has been the face of Miu Miu and is regularly seen in the front row at Marc Jacobs shows. But today she is dressed down in jeans and a cream top. Her skin is luminous, and she is surprisingly tall (at 5ft 9in). Last October she gave birth to her daughter Ramona and she moves around the room with purpose: you don't mess with Maggie. She has been with her fiancé, the actor Peter Sarsgaard, 36, (Boys Don't Cry, Shattered Glass) for five years. They are seen as something of a wonder-couple (Sarsgaard was nominated for a Golden Globe for Shattered Glass) but live a resolutely low-key existence in New York's West Village.
She followed Secretary with roles in Adaptation (as Nicolas Cage's girlfriend), and Mona Lisa Smile, where she played the mouthy bad girl to Julia Roberts's 1950s schoolteacher. She was terrific, but found making a big-studio picture frustrating. She has concentrated on smaller independent films such as John Sayles's Casa de los babys, and Criminal, with John C Reilly, where she transformed her character from a predictable femme fatale.
She likes an input. Gyllenhaal prefers working with directors with whom she can have a "real live conversation". On her first day with Stone, he burst out laughing: "Oh, you're a Do-I-Have-To?!".
"It's always very intense with me," she admits. "Always." But it is SherryBaby that confirms her as an actress of weight. She is unrecognisable as herself playing a blonde, gum-chewing, single mother. Not only does her character, Sherry, need to regain custody of her daughter, but she also has personal demons to confront. "At the start I don't think Sherry is in a tortured place at all," Gyllenhaal says. "I think she is in such a broken place that I don't think she has the luxury to let herself feel any of the pain she comes up against. I think the only tool that she has is this naive, fierce hopefulness."
Sherry is a great, ballsy, female character, and not entirely likeable. Stunted emotionally by prison, she's convinced that she's going to be the best mother ever, without doing the work. "She's very self-consumed. She thinks she's going to revolutionise everything, she's just so childlike and young."
It's refreshing to see the chic Gyllenhaal in itsy miniskirts and plunging halterneck tops. She got very involved in choosing Sherry's clothes. " There was a fantastic wardrobe, but I thought: 'You guys are making some judgment about this girl.' I think that she has to believe that her clothes are beautiful and that they're the clothes of a professional woman, and why can't a professional woman be very sexy? After all, everyone chooses clothes as a way of articulating something about themselves to the world."
The raw sex scenes make sense. When I suggest that a desperate person might well give a blowjob to get a job and custody of their child, Gyllenhaal nods in passionate agreement. "I know, I know. That's the same way I thought: 'Is there a way I can, not only justify it, but ethically justify it?' Because I think she's religious, so is there way that God could watch me do this and say, 'Good on you?' That's really tough, and it takes someone who's incredibly smart to do that puzzle in her head."
In the film Sherry begins a relationship with an older man, played by Danny Trejo. Gyllenhaal reveals that Trejo found the nudity troubling. "I remember he had to take my shirt off. He's a kind man in the film, and he turns me around and looks at me. And Danny said: 'It's not kind, I don't think it's the right thing to do', and the director, Laurie [Collyer], and I, who are both women, said immediately, 'It can be kind and it can be hot!'"
The first time I met Gyllenhaal – promoting Secretary – she impressed me with her intelligence and sparkiness. She openly admitted that she had fought with the director to make sure that her character, Lee, didn't become a passive victim, or kinky sex-goddess. She even lamented the fact that she'd had a bikini wax for the film's nude scenes. "I think my vanity compromised the authenticity of the character," she told me, engagingly.
There was a real sweetness to the 24-year-old Gyllenhaal. Today, she has learned to guard her privacy in an industry that devours young female starlets whole. She is articulate, rather than warm. But she is also shattered after a fashion shoot, and is dying to rejoin her baby. Ask her about her role in SherryBaby, however and she still lights up. She is enormously proud of the movie, but admits that she and Collyer had a very tempestuous relationship.
"I think that she thought that I would be tougher, or more the fantasy of what someone would think a woman who had been in jail would be like. Yes, Sherry is incredibly tough, but in order to turn some of the horrible things she comes up against into pleasure, to turn them into something she believes is ethically good, it takes an amazing brain and a lot of power to survive. But it's not showy power necessarily."
Gyllenhaal was born in New York in 1977. Her father is a descendant of the Swedish aristocratic Gyllenhaal family; her mother is Jewish-American. She and her brother attended LA's prestigious Harvard-Wakeland prep school. At 15 she acted in her father's film Waterland. He also cast her in small roles in A Dangerous Woman and Homegrown, both of which also featured her brother, Jake.
She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in literature and Eastern religions, and spent a summer studying at Rada in London. Small roles followed in 40 Days and 40 Nights, Riding in Cars with Boys, and Cecil B DeMented (where she shone as a Satanic make-up artist). She became good at fashioning something out of nothing, she says.
At first, Jake had the more successful career, including a starring role in the cult hit Donnie Darko (Maggie had a cameo as his sister). Ever since, the press has been obsessed with fostering tales of sibling rivalry. "I am so bored of that question," she told me in 2003.
For years she didn't get roles because she wasn't considered pretty enough. But everything changed when Steven Shainberg cast her in Secretary. She grew up as a woman on the movie screen. A five-year relationship with an artist ended, and she met Saarsgard at a dinner party.
Interestingly, these days she has a clause in her contact where directors have carte blanche over nudity during filming, but she can decide on the final edit.
Gyllenhaal would love to do more theatre – Tony Kushner gave her the lead in Homebody/Kabul after seeing her on stage in Closer. But first she is making Christopher Nolan's movie The Dark Knight – his follow-up to Batman Begins. In it, Gyllenhaal plays Christian Bale's love interest. Replacing the anodyne Katie Holmes with Gyllenhaal seems a masterstroke. Gyllenhaal is very sure that she's not playing "some generic lady in a dress." And already she is raving about the collaboration with Nolan. "You think, 'Oh it's Batman, it's a big movie', yet we've had really interesting discussions about the script, and he's changed things based on conversations we've had. I think it could be a really good movie, not just for Batman fans but for everybody."
A committed Democrat (she drove people to the polls during the last presidential election), Gyllenhaal demonstrated against the invasion of Iraq and, in 2005, achieved notoriety when she was quoted as saying America was " responsible in some way" for the September 11 attacks. After the backlash (her fan-site had to be shut down), she issued a statement saying that September 11 was "an occasion to be brave enough to ask some serious questions about America's role in the world".
As an actor, she is, she says, obsessed with trying to represent the way human beings really behave. She filmed SherryBaby in 2004, before she had a child. Would she play it differently now? "Probably, because having a baby changes everything, but I'm really glad I didn't because I don't really think Sherry is a mother until maybe the last 10 seconds of the film. She has a fantasy of what a mother is, which is exactly what I had when I went in to make the movie."
Since our chat, and in the days leading up to the UK release of SherryBaby, the news has broken that Gyllenhaal is the new face of Agent Provocateur, replacing Kate Moss. It's a brilliant coup for the lingerie company – Gyllenhaal will bring a new brand of intelligent eroticism – but one wonders about the actress's motivation. Does she really want that level of press exposure? To her horror, her pregnancy became a celebrity occasion.
"I know many people have much harder things to worry about, but there were 30 paparazzi outside my house when I went to hospital to give birth. They were horrible, and you're very powerless, which is a hard position. With a new baby that's something to be honoured and to be very, very delicate around, and I felt that was really out of line." Even today, she says, they stalk her, trying to catch her breastfeeding or changing diapers.
For a moment, her voice falters, but there's no danger of Gyllenhaal toning down. Making SherryBaby almost became a political act, she says. "If you can make a movie about someone who's that troubled and you invite the audience to love them anyway, it's a way of practising being compassionate."
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I love her. Thanks for the article. Sherrybaby is good. Watched it two times.
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Heath Ledger and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
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^^ I must admit that it's weird to see her in garters...
I love her long maroon hair in the Dark Knight on-set shots. Her jacket is fantastic too.
I love her long maroon hair in the Dark Knight on-set shots. Her jacket is fantastic too.
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