Image Credit: Don Arnold/WireImage.comOne of the happiest results from this morning’s Golden Globe nominations in my mind was the recognition of Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway for their terrific performances in the comedic drama Love & Other Drugs. I had the pleasure of interviewing them together for our EW cover story and enjoyed seeing their unique friendship first-hand. Now that they’re both Golden Globe nominees (for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy or Musical), Gyllenhaal — who’s never gotten a Globe nod before, strangely — got on the phone to discuss his competition (including two Johnny Depp performances, Alice in Wonderland and The Tourist) and what Hathaway had to say when she texted him after the big news.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You’ve had an Oscar nomination, a SAG Award nomination, and you’ve won a BAFTA. What took you so long with the Golden Globes?
JAKE GYLLENHAAL: [Laughs] It’s such a random thing! The irony of this one is that it isn’t the typical awards-season fare. Most movies that are acknowledged during awards season tend to be darker, and what’s special about this nomination is that it’s something about romance and hope.
So who’s your biggest competition for the win: Johnny Depp or Johnny Depp?
Right? Tell me about it. It’s a celebrity deathmatch with twin Johnny Depps. It’s pretty awesome that he was nominated twice. He’s such a badass.
I know you and Anne love to text each other all the time. So have you texted with her today?
She texted me this morning and I haven’t texted her back yet! Her text was…hold on a second, I’m going to grab my phone and I’ll tell you. This is an exclusive, hold on. [Rustles around for his phone.] She said, “Dude! Exclamation point. Congrats! Millions of exclamation points. You did it! Exclamation points. First Golden Globe nom, right? Millions of question marks. X.”
Wow, she knows her stuff.
She knows her awards history. It’s nice because the last movie we did [Brokeback Mountain] was acknowledged with awards. There’s something about us working together that seems to feel good and feel right.
aww i love jake
Yeah, well, I will love him more if he leaves Taylor at home during the awards season. They make me crrrringe.
YES.
Better Taylor Swift than Taylor Momsen. Which is who I thought you were talking about until I read down the comments further – talk about cringing. ew.
omg you are so right. i still don’t believe he’s dating her, because the thought of them together makes me cringe. but Di is also right…better swift than momsen
<3
Jake will be ending his relationship with Swift, in favor of a new alliance with the newly available Ryan Reynolds.
I like Jake and Anne together in real life. I think they need to be a couple! Not that I’m a deciding factor in that.
It just seems like they genuinely like each other in real life and maybe I’m reading too much into them but their interviews are very friendly…
Why aren’t Jake and Anne dating? They are my favorite non-couple. =)
i totally agree!
their covers on EW were sooooo cute!
Completely agree!! I get a little nauseous anytime he pops up on a website with Taylor. It’s so weird he went from dating a woman with kids to dating a girl who is barely old enough to drink.
When you think about it though, that makes perfect sense. He was grown up for a long time doing the “family thing.” He’s having fun now, with the opposite of that. I don’t love it, but I think it logically fits…
does anybody else think it’s weird that anne’s character in love and other drugs was named maggie…and that’s his sister’s name as well? just saying
Because Anne’s not blonde.
yea. he is into blondes 100%
gyllenhaal needs to learn that dating blonde chicks won’t get him closer to blond men. LOL,just kidding that was sooo inappropriate of me…
They’ve already had sex enough times on camera. They might as well be dating.
Perhaps it is ANNE that chooses not to date JAKE (rather than the other way around). She is, after all, way hotter than he is.
mine too!
Because he’s too busy dating Taylor Swift trying to get his named dropped on her next album.
it feels good and right because you two should basically be married. get on it guys.
Cutest thing ever! They were two of the noms that I actually agreed with.
Love and Other Drugs was a good movie, and Anne and Jake do have amazing chemistry. LAOD had some flaws, but they made the movie work!
C’mon, it was practically porn.
I was really happy for them! They had unbelievable chemistry in the movie! I enjoyed them so much! It was really an honest love story, full of hope, and tears, and humor, and heart, and it was because of their abilities that all of that came thru so well.
Bravo, Anne & Jake for well deserved nominations.
Anne should try to avoid standing next to Jake. He’s so pretty. She looks especially hideous next to him.
He is pretty? are you on drugs>
ITA. He and his sister are both creepy in a non threatening, home schooled kind of way.
@Right Ha! I LOL’d
LOL at him reading the text from Anne….(millions of exclamation points).
How great! Jake gets his 1st globe nom 24 hours after Taylors birthday!
Yeah well next time he is banging Taylor Swift he can remind her to make sure she adds “golden globe nominee” in the lyrics to the song she is going to write when they break up. She can work on that laying on her back pretending she loves having sex with him instead of playing with her Barbie dolls.
Wow – claws in. She is 21 ya know?
I think they should be dating. They sure have gotten close. I hope he’ll text her back to congratulate her back. They’ll probably be sitting together at the awards show.
Anne has way too much make up in that picture. Anyway, I doubt Jake can pull a surprise win (a la Colin Farrell). Still, good to be recognized though.
Ich wünschte mir auchAnne für Jake.Sie passen so gut zusammen.Mit Taylor würde es niemals gut gehen. Wach auf Jake.