Los Angeles, March 1 – Hollywood actress Maggie Gyllenhaal has shared her experience of directing her brother, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, in her upcoming Gothic romance movie, "The Bride."
The filmmaker behind "The Lost Daughter" described "getting emotional" while discussing the subject with her sibling, adding with a laugh that she "waited too long, that was a rookie mistake," according to 'Deadline'.
She told The New York Times, "I waited until I was absolutely sure that asking him to play this role in the movie, it's a very small role, it's just a cameo, really, I made sure I did some work in thinking to make sure it was the right thing to do to ask him."
"It meant so much to me," she added, given that she strived early in her career to distinguish herself from her filmmaker father, screenwriter mother, and fellow performer brother.
According to 'Deadline', she and the "Brokeback Mountain" star have "never been estranged, but we've never been as close as we are now."
Elsewhere in the interview, Maggie Gyllenhaal described her fascination with envy and having felt some latent feelings of jealousy toward her brother's early movie stardom.
"In general, I am very interested in envy. I think there's a reason why it's considered one of the seven deadly sins. I'm interested in it in terms of watching other people's movies come out. Admiration versus envy. What creates it? I think it's usually feeling like you don't have enough," she said, while also noting that taking a break to reach out to "Wuthering Heights" director Emerald Fennell "freed up the competition and you realize, 'No, no. We're actually 100 percent on the same team. There absolutely is enough to go around'."
"I don't think I knew that at first, when I was young and Jake was an instant movie star. I don't think I was fully aware of the envy, but it was there," she added.
"The Bride" is set to release in theaters on March 6. It stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, and Penelope Cruz. It is loosely inspired by the 1935 classic "Bride of Frankenstein," which itself is based on Mary Shelley's landmark novel.
