Jake Gyllenhaal
So Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal have stripped off for the cover of Entertainment Weekly. Surprised?
It’s becoming a trend in Hollywood to gain attention through everything but their actual profession -acting.
It doesn’t shock me though that these two got partially naked to promote their new film, Love & Other Drugs. Hathaway, 27, plays liberal artist Maggie Murdock in the movie, opposite Gyllenhaal’s commitment-phobic Viagra salesman Jamie Randall.
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Have you ever loved anything as a child only to grow and have someone completely ruin it for you?
Well that’s exactly how I’ve felt when I saw Jake Gyllenhaal as the lead in the new trailers for the ‘Prince of Persia’ movie. Now I’m happy to admit that I have an unacceptable level of personal attachment to the franchise - it being my favourite computer game growing up and being of Iranian or ‘Persian’ heritage myself.
Seriously, when did a dose of bad spray tan qualify someone as being Middle Eastern? And it’s not just the lead role, none of the principal cast members are of Iranian decent. This is despite the fact that Iran has a thriving film industry that is always exporting talented actors and creative types courtesy of its hardline government.
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RichardAK says:
The ancient Persian empire was a polyglot empire in which numerous ancestors of Jake Gyllenhaal—who is of partial Middle Eastern descent—lived. Since his character is a street urchin who is adopted into the royal family, there is no reason to suppose that his character should be ethnic Persian. Read more »
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Andre says:
Imagine if Crocodile Dundee was played by an American, like George Clooney for example… there would be an uproar. The negative commenters here need to open their eyes a little more and realise that just because something doesn’t offend you, doesn’t mean it’s not necessarily offensive to someone else. The… Read more »
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