Jake Gyllenhaal appears in a trailer for ‘Road House’.Photo:Prime Video/YouTube
Prime Video/YouTube
Jake Gyllenhaalisn’t taking all the credit for hisRoad Housephysique.
“I’ll tell you that being where I am — 10 years ago I madeSouthpaw, which is another fight movie, and I was in a different place. My body was, I knew that I needed help with nutrition and I knew I needed to keep myself safe from injury and I needed to also be able to have the aesthetics of the whole role,” Gyllenhaal says.
“So balancing all that took a group of people helping me all the time.”
Jake Gyllenhaal attends the 2024 SXSW Conference and Festival.Gary Miller/Getty
Gary Miller/Getty
Crediting his “incredible” trainer Jason Walsh and “wonderful” chef Paulette Tejeda, as well as a nutritionist, Gyllenhaal adds that he had “an incredible group of people constantly handing me food, making it happen, making sure there was flexibility.”
Walsh previously spoke toInsiderabout Gyllenhaal’s work ethic, sharing that VersaClimber classes at Walsh’s fitness studio also helped him get in shape.
“But we trained about an hour, an hour and a half, every day before work,” Gyllenhaal tells PEOPLE. “And then we always had to sort of taper depending on what the schedule called for. So if the schedule called for more fighting and action where I needed more energy, we would do less. And then you’d sort of get it throughout the day. So yeah, it was a village and I listened to what they said and this is the result.”
The results of his regimen are clear in the glimpses of the film that Gyllenhaal has shown fansahead of its premiereon Friday.
In the movie, theBrokeback Mountainactor plays a former UFC fighter who becomes a bar bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys following the end of his fighting career. He appears alongside the likes ofConor McGregor, Jessica Williams, Post Malone and Daniela Melchior in the remake of the 1989Patrick Swayzefilm.
Patrick Swayze appears in 1988’s ‘Road House’.United Artists/Getty
United Artists/Getty
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Gyllenhaal made sure to thank original star Swayze in a touchingInstagram postahead of the movie’s release, calling him a “great man.”
Swayze died on Sept. 14, 2009, at the age of 57 following his pancreatic cancer diagnosis.
“He was such a talent and I continue to have so much respect and admiration for what he put out and into the world,” Gyllenhaal wrote in the post. “I’ll never forget his kindness to me when I was starting out — he didn’t have to take the time, but he always did. We’ve made a differentRHthis time around, but hoping it’s one he would’ve had fun watching!”
Road Houseis set to release on Prime Video on March 21.
source: people.com
