Name: "Those Are Not My Feet" - Jake Gyllenhaal On His Tap Dancing Scene In "The Bride!"
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My first guest this evening is a Tony and Oscar nominated actor, you know, from Brokeback Mountain, Nightcrawler and Roadhouse.

Please welcome back to the Late show, Jake Gyllenhaal.

So we had the director of the Bride on your sister Maggie.

The film stars Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

And you play a silver screen matinee, like maybe from the 30s, it's not quite entirely clear when, but

it's a black and white silver screen matinee.

Try it now with a different animal spine.

I'm not believing you as a handsome movie star.

My sister literally auditioned me for 45 years and I finally got the part, but no.

Yeah, she called me six weeks before she started shooting the movie and said, I finally realized, even though I offered the part to a lot of other people, that you were the person who was supposed to do it.

Well, how did she describe the film role of Ronnie Reed?

Tell me about how she described the film role.

So I play matinee idol, a character who Christian Bale's character, Frankenstein, has a sort of relationship with through the movies.

And so he goes to his movies all the time.

And it's his first relationship before he meets the bride, really.

And for those people out there who aren't hip to what you're talking about here, the Bride is a retelling, a reimagining of the Bride of Frankenstein.

In semi, more modern terms and with a little bit of, you know, gangland crime on the side.

You know, like a little Bonnie and Clyde.

And I think that's the, you know, it's essentially undefined.

My sister's created this movie that is uniquely its own own.

We had a really great time, and we had a great discussion afterwards about what it was about.

Yeah, we had a lot of arguments about what it was about.

I mean, so if you enjoy arguing with your family, go see this film.

We have a clip here with Frank and the bride.

I can say is you can witness my sister's brilliance as both a writer and a filmmaker in this, where you learn about a character, all the characters through them watching another character.

Believe it or not, he had polio as a boy, and

they didn't know if he would be able to walk.

Still, one of his legs is shorter than the other.

They have special shoes made, so his feet are even.

When he starts making her breakfast, she'll be taking her shaving, her shower.

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"Those Are Not My Feet" - Jake Gyllenhaal On His Tap Dancing Scene In "The Bride!"

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