Jake Gyllenhaal In "Proof", featuring Gwyneth Paltrow and Anthony Hopkins, Gyllenhaal played a graduate student in mathematics who tries to convince Paltrow's character to publish a revolutionary proof to a problem puzzling the mathematicians' community. In "Jarhead", Gyllenhaal played a violent U.S. Marine during the first Gulf War. He also auditioned to be Batman for the blockbuster "Batman Begins" and came close to getting the role, but Christian Bale was ultimately chosen for it. In "Brokeback Mountain", Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger play young men who meet as sheep herders and embark upon a sexual relationship that begins in the summer of 1963
Jake Gyllenhaal Carolina with Jessica Biel, as well as Doug Liman's as yet untitled film about the race for lunar colonization. The following year, Gyllenhaal played the lead role in the of the video game "", produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and released by Disney on May 28, 2010, and in the romantic comedy " Love & Other Drugs", released on November 24, 2010, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2012, Gyllenhaal starred alongside Michael Peña in David Ayer's film "End of Watch" about two Los Angeles street cops. The film was released on September 21, 2012 and received