ODEON Magazine June 2015 | Page 5

BOXING
CLEVER
Jake Gyllenhaal lands a
knockout blow as a very
troubled boxer
in Southpaw

Did You
Know?

Good news for robot fans, Paramount has
green-lit two more Terminator films after
this! Let’s hope Arnie makes it through ok,
we can’t get enough of the big man.

PHOTOS: Melinda Sue Gordon © 2015 Paramount Pictures, Scott Garfield © 2014 The Weinstein Company

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You can’t say Jake Gyllenhaal
isn’t dedicated to his craft.
After having lost around
30lbs to play a taut, wiry
cameraman in the acclaimed
thriller Nightcrawler, he then
had to train every day for
months on end to gain 15lbs
of pure, solid muscle for his
next role: a boxer at the top of
his game, in Southpaw.
Junior Middleweight
Champion Billy ‘The Great’
Hope – who fights lefthanded, hence the term
‘southpaw’ – is the king of the
ring in this hard-hitting (pun
intended) drama co-written
by the genius of Kurt Sutter
(Sons Of Anarchy) and
directed by Antoine Fuqua
(Training Day). After
tragically losing his wife
(Rachel McAdams), Billy
faces a fight he was never
expecting: to keep custody of
his daughter.
“We literally turned him
into a beast,” says Fuqua of his
lead actor’s transformation.
“Jake [is] a very electric,
powerful fighter in this movie,
and a guy who fights for his
daughter. I’m confident that
this will change how people
see Jake as a leading man.” See
for yourself when Southpaw
opens 31 July.

Watch the trailer