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P R JAKE GYLLENHAAL od U ced B Y Y T MCG360 P U blis H ing were the second car on the scene. I did not expect that at all. It really opened my eyes to the kind of story we were trying to convey. How did it make you feel shaving your head for the role? It was (writer-director) David Ayer’s plan all along to have the character look that way. To be honest, it wasn’t anything I really thought about. We made this movie for the guys who do this job every day and I’m really proud of the authenticity of it. There are The star of End Of Watch talks mean streets, shaved exercises with live ammunition. things that I see actors do in By the time we got to the set, we movies now that are so not the heads and how to be convincing as a tough LA cop were prepared and it was really fun. way a police officer would behave. Words byby MattMatt Mueller Mueller Was there a turning point What have you taken away from where the journey became End Of Watch? personal to you? ake Gyllenhaal has played with Gyllenhaal at the Toronto It’s changed me and it’s changed tough on screen before – a International Film Festival, where On my very first ride-along, my perception of law enforcement. Marine in Jarhead, an army End Of Watch had its international somebody was murdered and we I was born in Los Angeles, I grew helicopter pilot in Source premiere. up in an area that is nothing like Code. But his role as one of the the southeast side of LA and yet What first attracted you to the Los Angeles Police Department’s it’s only a mile and a half away. So role of the young officer in End finest, officer Brian Taylor, in End it’s also transformed my idea of Of Watch? Of Watch is his most energetically Los Angeles. It’s actually made me hard-boiled yet. Patrolling the I knew that I was going to have to fall back in love with the city. mean streets of south central LA immerse myself in it because of with partner Mike (Michael Peña), the way we were shooting it, which End Of Watch is released in the harsh, dangerous reality of this is hyper-real with as little fiction in UK cinemas on 23 November. close duo’s profession makes every their behaviour as possible. I’m day a tense one for their on-screen interested in the life experience partners (played by Anna Kendrick that the research on a character and Natalie Martinez). End Of "IT’S CHANGED brings me, and we spent five Watch arrives baked through with authenticity, thanks partly months preparing for a 22-day ME AND IT’S to the documentary-style shoot. CHANGED MY cinematography deployed by What did that preparation entail? South Central-born writer-director PERCEPTION David Ayer (Training Day) and Michael (Peña) and I went out the immersive preparation that on the streets on ride-alongs with OF LAW Gyllenhaal and Peña underwent for real guys, and we also had fight ENFORCEMENT." their roles. Film3Sixty caught up training every morning and tactical FILM3SIXTYMAGAZINE.COM FILM3SIXTY 17.