{"id":1916634,"date":"2023-04-19T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-gyllenhaal-on-why-hes-drawn-to-military-roles-like-the-covenant-so-much-pride-and-love\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T10:46:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T14:46:15","slug":"jake-gyllenhaal-on-why-hes-drawn-to-military-roles-like-the-covenant-so-much-pride-and-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-gyllenhaal-on-why-hes-drawn-to-military-roles-like-the-covenant-so-much-pride-and-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Gyllenhaal On Why He\u2019s Drawn To Military Roles Like \u2018The Covenant\u2019: \u2018So Much Pride And Love\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjake-gyllenhaal-on-why-hes-drawn-to-military-roles-like-the-covenant-so-much-pride-and-love%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1916634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jake Gyllenhaal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> recently discussed why he\u2019s drawn to military roles ahead of the release of his new film, \u201cThe Covenant.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt the beginning of my career, I played a Marine, a recruit, and I got to know a lot of people in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/military\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">military<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and learned from them,\u201d the 42-year-old <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">actor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> told the Associated Press during a red carpet interview this week. \u201cAnd I think it changed my perspective on the world sort of just being around and touching that world just a bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI have throughout my career played people who are ex-military, people who had a history in that, and I\u2019ve learned so much from that group. And there\u2019s so much pride and love, the people that defend our freedom \u2014 that I am drawn to that story,\u201d Gyllenhaal said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u201cJarhead\u201d actor said he\u2019s \u201cdrawn to\u201d characters in \u201cextreme circumstances because I think it brings out the humanity in people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd there\u2019s no better characters in extreme circumstances than a soldier, in particular, so that may be also why I\u2019m drawn to it,\u201d Gyllenhaal said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Covenant\u201d features Gyllenhaal playing U.S. Army Special Forces Sgt. John Kinley. A local interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), is recruited to help the military, then saves Kinley\u2019s life. Gyllenhaal\u2019s character returns to the war zone to rescue the interpreter and his family after they aren\u2019t extracted to America as promised. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The story is not based on real people but is a fictional account of actual events with interpreters in the war zone. Per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2023\/04\/guy-ritchies-the-covenant-review-jake-gyllenhaal-1235330317\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deadline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the film\u2019s end credits state that many interpreters left behind have been murdered by the Taliban or gone into hiding since U.S. troops withdrew.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link c-link--focus-visible\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The action thriller was co-written, co-produced, and directed by Guy Ritchie. It premieres this Friday, April 21.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Early critic reviews have been overwhelmingly positive, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it \u201ca gritty change of pace\u201d for Ritchie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThis is a serious-minded, well-acted drama that shows just as keen an interest in character, specifically the integrity of two men from vastly different cultures who provide the story of brotherhood and survival with its racing pulse,\u201d reviewer David Rooney <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/guy-ritchie-the-covenant-review-jake-gyllenhaal-afghan-war-drama-1235376890\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Covenant\u201d currently has an 80% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Jake Gyllenhaal recently discussed why he\u2019s drawn to military roles ahead of the release of his new film, \u201cThe Covenant.\u201d \u201cAt the beginning of my career, I played a Marine, a recruit, and I got to know a lot of people in the military and learned from them,\u201d the 42-year-old actor told the Associated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1916635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,22859,20887,24672,5599,5853,7150,4505,6575,8611,16737],"class_list":["post-1916634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-covenant","tag-drawn","tag-gyllenhaal","tag-hes","tag-jake","tag-love","tag-military","tag-pride","tag-roles","tag-so"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1916635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}