It’s hard to imagine feeling more isolated making a movie thanJake Gyllenhaaldid on Netflix’sThe Guilty.
“They were talking about shutting Los Angeles down almost every day.
We’d FaceTime each other after these 25-minute long takes.
Jake Gyllenhaal plays a 911 dispatcher in Netflix’s ‘The Guilty.'.netflix
He’d give me direction, I’d take it down, we’d do another take.
We never saw each other in-person the entire shoot.”
I just knew, somehow, when we are challenged, Antoine and I always get better."
‘The Guilty’ director Antoine Fuqua directs his cast remotely from a van while under quarantine.
For his part, Fuqua found it an “exciting” experience.
“Jake and I would only physically see each other from behind the studio wall.
“That drawer is the sound drawer, and it was also our first AD’s drawer.
Jake Gyllenhaal confronts himself in a scene from Netflix’s ‘The Guilty.'.netflix
[Laughs] It was really fun outside of how intense it is as a movie.”
Adds Fuqua: “Watching Jake pull off his performance was difficult in the best way.
“Nothing is as it seems,” he teases after taking a pause to contemplate.
The Guiltypremieres Oct. 1 on Netflix.
See exclusive images from the film above.
