Post by Kelley on Feb 19, 2006 14:16:56 GMT -5
Cast on Oprah (on her official website!) As you scroll through the pictures there is a ton of great insight!!
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(The following is personally typed out by my brother and he gets all credit for it)
(Oprah’s commercial):“The stars of Brokeback Mountain: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.” -Oprah
(The beginning intro): “All new: A passionate affair. 2 gorgeous men secretly in love. It’s the movie everyone’s buzzing about.” -Oprah
(Sneak clip from the interview):“Let’s talk about the kiss! Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger- his real life love, Michelle Williams…The stars of the Golden Globe winner: Brokeback Mountain” -Oprah
“We made out and they had a baby” -Jake Gyllenhaal
“Two gorgeous men fall in love and tell no one. They even marry and have children, despite their aching passion for each other. The twists and turns of this movie are all the buzz. You may have heard it described as the gay cowboy movie, but that label does not begin to do Golden Globe winner: Brokeback Mountain, justice. Please welcome the actors causing all this buzz: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal !” –Oprah
(The crowd goes wild and screams, Jake even throws in a scream of his own, but Heath Ledger has a quiet, nearly ‘Johnny’ like demeanour about him.)
“You done? Well-..” (Oprah tries to settle down the crowd.) “This is what I have to say.. you-you-you you gotta be really secure about yourself to do a movie about two gay men in love and then not worry about being type-cast. I’m sure when you first read this script, that must have crossed your mind?” –Oprah
(Neither answer.. just kind of smile and listen to the uproar of the crowd)
“Umm yeah- yeah I heard it was a gay cowboy movie and I really didn’t want to have anything to do with it. I was 16 years old at the time” –Gyllenhaal
“Really?” –Oprah
“Yeah- so it had been around, the script had been around for years. When I heard Ang Lee was going to do it I read the script and it was really the most beautiful story I’d ever read- love story and I couldn’t not do it, and it never really crossed my mind at all.” Gyllenhaal
“And you Heath?”
(Chuckles) “Yeah, I think there was a certain level of you know anxiety and there were and-and fears, then the risks led into my initial reaction. But then that kind of disappeared and I was left with this beautiful story. It felt important, it felt like a story that had never been put to screen.. umm…” -Ledger
“And I think if we would have known the response to the movie before we did it, I don’t think either of us would have done it.” –Gyllenhaal
“Why?” -Oprah
“I just don’t think we could have known that it would have become what it has become, and meant for a lot of different people. But I think ultimately you have to go and jump into it, and if you’re thinking about a response from people while you’re doing it, there’s just no way you’re going to –especially some of the things we do” –Gyllenhaal
“You’ve just got to pretend that no one’s going to see it.. you know, so you can allow yourself to expose yourself, and be vulnerable” –Ledger
“Especially the stuff that we- we do” -Gyllenhaal
“Expose” (finishes Gyllenhaal’s statement) -Ledger
“Yeah” –Gyllenhaal
“I’d say, fellas’!” –Oprah (crowd goes up in applause) “Well here’s a look at Golden Globe Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain, take a look” (shows clip)
(film clip):
“Brokeback Mountain has captivated audiences with its haunting images of forbidden love …” –Oprah’s speak over.
“Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it” –Jake Gyllenhaal’s character ‘Jack to Ennis’
“This groundbreaking film stars “The Patriot”s Heath Ledger, and “Day After Tomorrow”s Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, cowboys who fall in love after spending the summer of 1963 together herding sheep. They are drawn to each other and eventually act on feelings neither one can deny…” –Oprah’s speak over
“It’s nobody’s business but ours” –Jack
“…When summer ends, they go their separate ways…” –Oprah’s speak over
“I guess I’ll see you around then?” –Ennis
“And fear keeps them apart, as both men get married and have children. But years later, an aching desire drives them back into each other’s arms” –Oprah’s speak over
“If this thing grabs hold of us again… at the wrong place, the wrong time… we’re dead” –Ennis
“Wow, let’s talk about it. Do you see it the way a lot of people are saying? ‘Ground breaking’, ‘Revolutionary cinema’?” –Oprah
“Look I, don’t know. The first time Michelle and I saw the film, they screened it for us in New York. When it was over we kind of looked at each other and went ‘I don’t know?’ and shrugged and said ‘You were good’ and ‘You were good’ and we threw that back and forth for a while. I think we’re both fairly resigned to the fact that we’ll never be able to transport ourselves to watching ourselves on screen- it’s difficult” –Ledger
“Yeah, what he said” –Gyllenhaal jokes.
(Oprah and crowd laughs)
“Okay let’s talk about- you know, because watching it and all of a sudden you’re in the tent …and jesus, where’d that come from… I’m like I thought he was cold and wanted to get warm! I had no idea but uh—..” –Oprah
“It warmed up pretty quickly” –Ledger
“Yeah, yeah” –Gyllenhaal
“Let’s talk about the kiss! I read you had to do it 13 times, 13 takes?” -Oprah
“That’s what Ang- Ang Lee the director says –that’s what he says.. I don’t remember it at all… I I really don’t remember a thing, I think- I thought we did it like 3 times before” –Gyllenhaal
“Yeah, and look… we can’t say we weren’t nervous about it.. but after the first take was over, it was like ‘so what, it’s just kissing another human being’ how are we going to get on with it? Let’s finish this scene, get on with it, and get out of here. There’s no way to really prepare for a love scene, whether it’s with a guy or a girl, I mean you don’t sit at home kissing your hand or rolling around with the pillows” –Ledger
“Some of us don’t… but the night before I was like…” (motions with his hand to his lip just what he was doing) -Gyllenhaal
“Putting little… stumble around, around here” (motions to his knuckles) -Ledger
“Yeah, yeah oh hey” –Gyllenhaal
“Were you guys uncomfortable and nervous about it?” –Oprah
(shift uncomfortably and long pause)
“Yeah, of course we were! I mean-I mean, of course we were.. I mean, but I think” –Gyllenhaal (begins to motion with his hand to his lips again)
“I think I really had the easier, the easier task, in those scenes in the tent, purely because Ennis had to have anxiety, be uncomfortable and-and have fear towards it. So in a sense, I knew I had that to give… I had something else to give as well. I knew we’d be capturing something, whereas Jake had the…” –Ledger
“I don’t know what that is! I wanna know what that is, I don’t know what he’s talking about” –Gyllenhaal bursts out laughing
(Talk between Ledger and Gyllenhaal that we cannot hear)
“So do you approach this like any other love scene?” –Oprah
“What, what are you getting at?” –Gyllenhaal (teases)
“I’m not even getting at anything. It’s okay- you have a love scene in a movie: everybody’s heard this by now, love scenes aren’t what they look like because you’ve got the crew in there, a few different angles, but do you approach it like any other love scene?” –Oprah
“I think we approach it like a dance. Like when I work with any woman in a love scene, I think women are very objectified, especially actresses when you’re doing scenes with them on film and particularly because the majority of people on set are men. So you have to say, I’m going to move you here, I’m going to go here, I’m going to touch you here, then we’re going to kiss, then I’m going to lay you down, then you’re gonna- and that’s how it was with us, you know… in that scene you saw, I’m going to come up, we’re going to hug then we’re going to look at each other, and then Heath, you’re going to pull me back, then you’re going to slam me into the wall, then I’m going to grab you and slam you into the wall. And I think the first couple times we were a little scared, and it was a little clunky but there have been times I’ve been working with women and they’ve said ‘Hey I’ve faked it before, I can fake it again’.” -Gyllenhaal
(film clip):
“You know we can get together, once in a while, way the hell out in the middle of nowehere but” -Ennis
“Once in a while? Once in a while? Every four f**king years?” -Jack
“Well, if you can’t fix it, Jack, you’ve gotta stand it” –Ennis
“For how long?” –Jack
“Long as we can ride it” –Ennis
(Oprah states that some people find ‘gay’ itself a controversial topic, but two gay men, getting married, having children and still being gay is controversial if not so, then: conflicting… the men agree)
“I find it personally disappointing that people go out of their way to voice their disgust or opinions about how two people choose to love one another, I think that’s really unfortunate.” –Ledger
(This is the first half. My brother has to type up the second)
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(The following is personally typed out by my brother and he gets all credit for it)
(Oprah’s commercial):“The stars of Brokeback Mountain: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway.” -Oprah
(The beginning intro): “All new: A passionate affair. 2 gorgeous men secretly in love. It’s the movie everyone’s buzzing about.” -Oprah
(Sneak clip from the interview):“Let’s talk about the kiss! Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger- his real life love, Michelle Williams…The stars of the Golden Globe winner: Brokeback Mountain” -Oprah
“We made out and they had a baby” -Jake Gyllenhaal
“Two gorgeous men fall in love and tell no one. They even marry and have children, despite their aching passion for each other. The twists and turns of this movie are all the buzz. You may have heard it described as the gay cowboy movie, but that label does not begin to do Golden Globe winner: Brokeback Mountain, justice. Please welcome the actors causing all this buzz: Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal !” –Oprah
(The crowd goes wild and screams, Jake even throws in a scream of his own, but Heath Ledger has a quiet, nearly ‘Johnny’ like demeanour about him.)
“You done? Well-..” (Oprah tries to settle down the crowd.) “This is what I have to say.. you-you-you you gotta be really secure about yourself to do a movie about two gay men in love and then not worry about being type-cast. I’m sure when you first read this script, that must have crossed your mind?” –Oprah
(Neither answer.. just kind of smile and listen to the uproar of the crowd)
“Umm yeah- yeah I heard it was a gay cowboy movie and I really didn’t want to have anything to do with it. I was 16 years old at the time” –Gyllenhaal
“Really?” –Oprah
“Yeah- so it had been around, the script had been around for years. When I heard Ang Lee was going to do it I read the script and it was really the most beautiful story I’d ever read- love story and I couldn’t not do it, and it never really crossed my mind at all.” Gyllenhaal
“And you Heath?”
(Chuckles) “Yeah, I think there was a certain level of you know anxiety and there were and-and fears, then the risks led into my initial reaction. But then that kind of disappeared and I was left with this beautiful story. It felt important, it felt like a story that had never been put to screen.. umm…” -Ledger
“And I think if we would have known the response to the movie before we did it, I don’t think either of us would have done it.” –Gyllenhaal
“Why?” -Oprah
“I just don’t think we could have known that it would have become what it has become, and meant for a lot of different people. But I think ultimately you have to go and jump into it, and if you’re thinking about a response from people while you’re doing it, there’s just no way you’re going to –especially some of the things we do” –Gyllenhaal
“You’ve just got to pretend that no one’s going to see it.. you know, so you can allow yourself to expose yourself, and be vulnerable” –Ledger
“Especially the stuff that we- we do” -Gyllenhaal
“Expose” (finishes Gyllenhaal’s statement) -Ledger
“Yeah” –Gyllenhaal
“I’d say, fellas’!” –Oprah (crowd goes up in applause) “Well here’s a look at Golden Globe Best Picture: Brokeback Mountain, take a look” (shows clip)
(film clip):
“Brokeback Mountain has captivated audiences with its haunting images of forbidden love …” –Oprah’s speak over.
“Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it” –Jake Gyllenhaal’s character ‘Jack to Ennis’
“This groundbreaking film stars “The Patriot”s Heath Ledger, and “Day After Tomorrow”s Jake Gyllenhaal as Ennis and Jack, cowboys who fall in love after spending the summer of 1963 together herding sheep. They are drawn to each other and eventually act on feelings neither one can deny…” –Oprah’s speak over
“It’s nobody’s business but ours” –Jack
“…When summer ends, they go their separate ways…” –Oprah’s speak over
“I guess I’ll see you around then?” –Ennis
“And fear keeps them apart, as both men get married and have children. But years later, an aching desire drives them back into each other’s arms” –Oprah’s speak over
“If this thing grabs hold of us again… at the wrong place, the wrong time… we’re dead” –Ennis
“Wow, let’s talk about it. Do you see it the way a lot of people are saying? ‘Ground breaking’, ‘Revolutionary cinema’?” –Oprah
“Look I, don’t know. The first time Michelle and I saw the film, they screened it for us in New York. When it was over we kind of looked at each other and went ‘I don’t know?’ and shrugged and said ‘You were good’ and ‘You were good’ and we threw that back and forth for a while. I think we’re both fairly resigned to the fact that we’ll never be able to transport ourselves to watching ourselves on screen- it’s difficult” –Ledger
“Yeah, what he said” –Gyllenhaal jokes.
(Oprah and crowd laughs)
“Okay let’s talk about- you know, because watching it and all of a sudden you’re in the tent …and jesus, where’d that come from… I’m like I thought he was cold and wanted to get warm! I had no idea but uh—..” –Oprah
“It warmed up pretty quickly” –Ledger
“Yeah, yeah” –Gyllenhaal
“Let’s talk about the kiss! I read you had to do it 13 times, 13 takes?” -Oprah
“That’s what Ang- Ang Lee the director says –that’s what he says.. I don’t remember it at all… I I really don’t remember a thing, I think- I thought we did it like 3 times before” –Gyllenhaal
“Yeah, and look… we can’t say we weren’t nervous about it.. but after the first take was over, it was like ‘so what, it’s just kissing another human being’ how are we going to get on with it? Let’s finish this scene, get on with it, and get out of here. There’s no way to really prepare for a love scene, whether it’s with a guy or a girl, I mean you don’t sit at home kissing your hand or rolling around with the pillows” –Ledger
“Some of us don’t… but the night before I was like…” (motions with his hand to his lip just what he was doing) -Gyllenhaal
“Putting little… stumble around, around here” (motions to his knuckles) -Ledger
“Yeah, yeah oh hey” –Gyllenhaal
“Were you guys uncomfortable and nervous about it?” –Oprah
(shift uncomfortably and long pause)
“Yeah, of course we were! I mean-I mean, of course we were.. I mean, but I think” –Gyllenhaal (begins to motion with his hand to his lips again)
“I think I really had the easier, the easier task, in those scenes in the tent, purely because Ennis had to have anxiety, be uncomfortable and-and have fear towards it. So in a sense, I knew I had that to give… I had something else to give as well. I knew we’d be capturing something, whereas Jake had the…” –Ledger
“I don’t know what that is! I wanna know what that is, I don’t know what he’s talking about” –Gyllenhaal bursts out laughing
(Talk between Ledger and Gyllenhaal that we cannot hear)
“So do you approach this like any other love scene?” –Oprah
“What, what are you getting at?” –Gyllenhaal (teases)
“I’m not even getting at anything. It’s okay- you have a love scene in a movie: everybody’s heard this by now, love scenes aren’t what they look like because you’ve got the crew in there, a few different angles, but do you approach it like any other love scene?” –Oprah
“I think we approach it like a dance. Like when I work with any woman in a love scene, I think women are very objectified, especially actresses when you’re doing scenes with them on film and particularly because the majority of people on set are men. So you have to say, I’m going to move you here, I’m going to go here, I’m going to touch you here, then we’re going to kiss, then I’m going to lay you down, then you’re gonna- and that’s how it was with us, you know… in that scene you saw, I’m going to come up, we’re going to hug then we’re going to look at each other, and then Heath, you’re going to pull me back, then you’re going to slam me into the wall, then I’m going to grab you and slam you into the wall. And I think the first couple times we were a little scared, and it was a little clunky but there have been times I’ve been working with women and they’ve said ‘Hey I’ve faked it before, I can fake it again’.” -Gyllenhaal
(film clip):
“You know we can get together, once in a while, way the hell out in the middle of nowehere but” -Ennis
“Once in a while? Once in a while? Every four f**king years?” -Jack
“Well, if you can’t fix it, Jack, you’ve gotta stand it” –Ennis
“For how long?” –Jack
“Long as we can ride it” –Ennis
(Oprah states that some people find ‘gay’ itself a controversial topic, but two gay men, getting married, having children and still being gay is controversial if not so, then: conflicting… the men agree)
“I find it personally disappointing that people go out of their way to voice their disgust or opinions about how two people choose to love one another, I think that’s really unfortunate.” –Ledger
(This is the first half. My brother has to type up the second)
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