How Jake Gyllenhaal lost to Bradley Cooper while telling the Leonard Bernstein story
“This story, this idea of playing one of America’s pre-eminent Jewish artists and his struggle with his identity has been close to my heart for over 20 years.”
The trailer too Bradley Cooper‘S maestro The film was released on Tuesday and quickly drew criticism for the prosthetic nose its star wears to portray Leonard Bernstein – and the fact that Cooper is not Jewish.
While many have sided with Cooper (and Steven Spielberg, who produced the film), Jake GyllenhaalDuring the debate, comments surfaced again on the Internet that he had lost the rights to the biopic.
“No one likes to admit it, but we were beaten at our own game,” said Gyllenhaal, whose mother is Jewish a deadline interview 2021. The reporter had asked Gyllenhaal how losing the project was “a bitter pill for young producers to swallow as the Amber Estate ceded rights to the other project.”
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“That’s basically what happened. There really isn’t much more to say about it. There’s always another project,” Gyllenhaal continued. “To stick your head out and hope to tell the stories you love and have loved for a long time is something to be proud of.”
“And that story, that idea of playing one of America’s preeminent Jewish artists and his struggle with his identity, has been in my heart for over 20 years, but sometimes it just doesn’t work out,” the actor said.
“If you’re lucky enough to stick around for a while in this business, it’s easy to forget that telling the story isn’t the most important thing,” he concluded. “I mean, this is our life. i have to enjoy it Bottom line, that might be my Achilles heel or my superpower, but I wish them the best of luck.”
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When the reporter noted that this was a “generous” attitude, Gyllenhaal said that when you’re “absorbed in thought about something that you have no control over, you can’t give yourself fully to the thing that’s right in front of you. ” “
Coming after 2019 A star Is Born, Cooper is both lead actor and director Maestro. The film promises to follow Bernstein’s legendary career as a composer and his relationship with his wife, Felicia Montealegre, who he plays Carey Mulligan.
maestro will be released in select theaters on November 22nd and on Netflix on December 20th.