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“I come from a theater where actors play other actors' roles or vice versa.
The role exists and then you come in and you play it.
I just happen to play another character.
And the last movie I did where Patrick Swayze played [that character]… it’s incomparable.
We’re talking about legends and people who originated characters that we love.”
Gyllenhaal stars as Rusty, a renowned attorney whose colleague and mistress is found murdered in her home.
Rusty’s fingerprints and 30-something text messages to her on the night of make him the prime suspect.
“I don’t look to them to try and give a performance like them.
“You know, you’re many decades later in that way where like technology is different.
Like socially things are different.
There’s so much difference that it’s very hard to kind of make any comparison.
But I just tried to do my thing.
The truth is no one could beat his haircut.
It’s a great haircut.
I was just like, ‘Damn man, he got the best one.
He got the best Rusty haircut,’ you know?”
Presumed Innocent is set to hit Apple TV Plus on June 12.
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