Movie:southpaw
- NewsJordan Zakarin
'Southpaw' Star Jake Gyllenhaal is an Old-School Gamer
At 34-years-old, Jake Gyllenhaal is a true child of the ‘80s. The actor stars as the boxer Billy Hope in this weekend’s new release, Southpaw, and so Yahoo Movies asked him to weigh in on which other fictional boxers he might want to face in the ring. Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal’s co-star Miguel Gómez, who plays his rival in Southpaw, figured it’d be worth taking a beating from The Italian Stallion if it meant the biggest possible payday.
- NewsJordan Zakarin
'Southpaw' Boxers on Their Fight Prep, Including Sparring, Cardio...and Abstinence
Much has been made of Jake Gyllenhaal’s transformation into a ripped muscle monster for his new boxing movie Southpaw. As he told Yahoo Movies in the video above, his preparation to play pro fighter Billy Hope continued up until the moment cameras began to roll. “We shot the fights the first two and a half weeks of the movie, so we trained up to the first day of shooting like it was a fight,” Gyllenhaal said. Gyllenhaal’s main ring rival in the Antoine Fuqua-directed movie is played by Miguel
