Battle of the Gyllen-Ruff

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Oh why must they make me choose? First Jake Gyllenhaal, yes, whined a lil' bit in an article about the making of Zodiac, where he basically admitted that he didn't know how to give director David Fincher what he wanted, and now co-star Mark Ruffalo has basically called Jake on his whininess and said Jake wasn't prepared. Ugh. From The Reeler (via Defamer):

"Yeah, you hear stories about [David Fincher] being so hard and intense," Ruffalo said. "And then I met him, and I immediately just loved the guy and was thinking , 'Well, when is he going to change? When is this guy that you keep hearing about going to pop up?' And my relationship and friendship with him got deeper as we went along. I think Fincher, what he has no patience for is incompetence or just a casual attitude toward the work. If you come in and you don't know your lines and you're not prepared, Fincher's going to eat you for breakfast. You know? And so the actors who complain about Fincher are usually the ones who don't show up knowing their shit, kind of."

Ah. So that whole thing last week with Jake Gyllenhaal's thinly-veiled Fincher critiques ("So there came a point where I would say, well, what do I do? Where's the risk?") last week in The New York Times -- was that blown out of proportion?

"Like I said," Ruffalo replied, "Fincher only has a problem with people if they're not prepared -- if they're not ready to work when they show up. Whatever form that takes -- whether it's a prop person, an actor or whatever. I thought there were a lot of weird sour grapes in that New York Times article. We're actors, man; we get paid way too much. It's like 'Wah, wah, wah' to me to hear an actor bitching and moaning when they get paid as much as they do and we have a pretty great life. I don't have much sympathy for it.""

Watch your tongue, Ruffalo! I think we all know whose side I'll have to choose here. Even if he is being a whiner, he's Jake, so he's forgiven and you're a bully! He's sensitive, see? You need to be there for him! In a physical way! Highly physical.... yes.... that's it... er, what was I talking about?
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