Still can’t quit: A brief history of Jake Gyllenhaal’s comments on ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Dear Jake Gyllenhaal, why can’t we get over you?We have a litany of reasons, actually, many of them on your Instagram account.
Beyond that of course, two words come to mind: Brokeback. Mountain.We love you for your performance in such a seminal queer classic, and for the legacy of the movie.
The stories you tell about its impact, your memories from making it, and your co-stars–particularly the late Heath Ledger–only add to the mystique.
In case you’re wondering which memories we refer to, look no further.These are the anecdotes that make us never want to quit you…“I think we had been cast for our ‘essences’ without really understanding what our ‘essences’ were – and that’s outside of our sexuality – we’re two straight guys cast in these roles, but who we are, who we were, Ang could see.
