Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
#1Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 11:19amPlanning on seeing Constellations on the 27th and was wondering if anyone has stage doored after the show and if Jake is signing. He was really inconsistent with If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet
#2Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 12:28pmLike most people, he finds "stage-dooring" odious, and tries to avoid the odious people who engage in it whenever possible. Don't be odious. Also don't take photographs in a theatre. Don't text during a show. Don't talk to the person sitting next to you. Here is my proposal for a new year's resolution: don't be odious.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#2Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 12:52pmI know everyone always picks on Jake because he's kind of quiet, but there are two videos of him at the stage door of Haven't Found It Yet and on both of them he seems really kind and engaging with the fans, and seems overall really nice.
#3Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 1:45pmJust never mention these two words in his presence: Toothy Tile.
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
ArtMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/08
#5Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 2:32pm
Bfreak, Toothy Tile is not a past credit (movie/tv) of Jake's. Google it and you will see why you shouldn't mention it.
Updated On: 12/21/14 at 02:32 PM
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#6Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 3:36pmHey ArtMan, I know that Toothy Tile isn't a film credit of Jake's but more of a public mocking, but Bubble Boy was on at 2 in the morning last night and I really forgot how bad that movie was. Compared to the caliber of work he is doing now (Nightcrawler, Prisoners) it really is an embarrassing credit that I bet he'd make a face if I mentioned it. :)
#7Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 4:22pmI can see him being pleasant at a stage door. Working with him is another story.
#8Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/21/14 at 7:14pm
@ HogansHero -Why do you always feel the need to regurgitate the same BS on pretty much every stage door thread- ESPECIALLY when you are contributing NOTHING to the conversation or the question- all you are doing is putting down a group of people and calling them names.
In regards to the original poster's question- He can be inconsistent. when i met him, he was very nice- signing and taking pictures with everyone, but i know that it was always a toss up if he would come out or not and sign (As it is with every performer)
Darreyl with an L!
Updated On: 12/21/14 at 07:14 PM
#9Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 1:01pmWhen he performed in If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet he came out and signed autographs after every performance. If he's not coming out consistently now, it's due to the fact that the show just started previews and after each performance the actors are given notes by the director. The show is still in development during previews so actors are always busier before the show officially opens. If you have a chance, return to the stage door after the show officially opens and you may have better luck. I stage doored at least 5 times during his stint Off-Broadway 2 years ago and he was very pleasant, contrary to popular belief.
"Mostly, I loved the size of these people's emotions. Nobody has emotions this size anymore. Outsized emotions. Operatic emotions. Kushemski and Vanda are like Tristan and Isolde, they're Paolo and Francesca. Nobody's in total thrall like this anymore. Nobody's overcome by passion like this, or goes through this kind of rage." Thomas, Venus in Fur
#10Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 1:46pm
@darrey--
Because it is not a cool thing to do, and folks need to be reminded of that and, yes, every single time it comes up (even though unfortunately I don't have the time to post about it in every thread that brings it up) and, yes, put down for engaging in it. If someone posted a question about videotaping a show, or tweeting during a show, I would do the same. And if someone posted something racist, I would do even more. So yes, stage door autograph hounds are loathsome. Most of the world knows that. But for you and your cohorts, you heard it here first.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#11Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:03pmI hate the autograph hounds who go and just take advantage of the actors and sell their signature on ebay, but no one should really MIND the fans who want to show their appreciation for the actor's performance/work, even if it includes a little autograph for souvenir on their playbill.
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#12Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 2:08pm
"Because it is not a cool thing to do, and folks need to be reminded of that and, yes, every single time it comes up (even though unfortunately I don't have the time to post about it in every thread that brings it up) and, yes, put down for engaging in it."
If you have such an overwhelming desire to preach, join the clergy. In the meantime, here's hoping you follow your own advice. DON'T BE ODIOUS.
#13Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 3:48pm
sorry had to laugh - Perez Hilton would love this 
#14Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 3:56pm
@Fisherman-Thanks for the suggestion, but I am way too agnostic for that. As to the other, unfortunately, sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. If I can convey to one person that this behavior is not OK every time I post, you can call my posts whatever you'd like.
@Bfreak-There is a super way to show one's appreciation for a performance; it's called an ovation. Thinking that you need to have a private moment with someone who just worked their butt off for you is just a species of ego-centrism that is a nuisance.
#15Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 3:57pmI promise to make my new years resolution to not be odious HogansHero if you resolve to not be so pompous. Having worked in theater and admin with professional theatres - it would never cross my mind to take a photo at the theater OR text. Most of us do know how to follow decorum. I too loath the autograph hounds dbreak who just show up at a theatre with a stack of Playbills or photos to sell on EBay. As a fan though a signed Playbill or a photo of the actor that I admire is a great souvenir of the show.
#16Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:07pm
@ryan: Deal!
Re photos and texts, I agree most of us DO know better but there are a lot of folks who don't and who think they are entitled to text and photograph and videotape and all sorts of other heinousness. I appreciate why you might want a souvenir, but I think you are wise enough to under
#17Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:10pm
@ryan: Deal!
Re photos and texts, I agree most of us DO know better but there are a lot of folks who don't and who think they are entitled to text and photograph and videotape and all sorts of other heinousness. I appreciate why you might enjoy a souvenir, but I think you are wise enough to understand the imposition resulting from your action.
And now I am off to my anti-pompousness class.
Sutton Ross
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#19Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 4:29pmHogansHero, of course an ovation is a great way to show your appreciation. But, if a fan really, really wants to see an actor that they may have followed for years or have just been introduced to, you should have no problem with it if they try. Like everyone has said on this message board a million times, the actor has an option as to whether or not they want to come out of the stage door, and/or interact with the fans. If the actor agrees to meeting the fan and appreciates the fan's kind words, and the fan is happy with what happened, and everything works well, then you should be happy too. I am finished with discussing this ridiculous debate.
#20Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 8:51pm
"the actor has an option as to whether or not they want to come out of the stage door, and/or interact with the fans."
what is the actor's option? to remain in the theatre overnight as a prisoner?
#21Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/22/14 at 10:34pm^ I really should not have to say this- but there are more then one exit from the theatre.... Idiot.
Darreyl with an L!
#22Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/23/14 at 1:51amactually, darreyl102, more often than not, there is not. Very few Broadway theatres have exits that do not require traversing the public sidewalk. Which is why we have this nonsense on those sidewalks with odious fans. Were there an alternate way out, there would not be this unpleasant circumstance. Perhaps you might consider knowing what you are talking about before you start calling other people names.
#23Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/23/14 at 3:09am
HA! that's a laugh, considering in all your stage door posts you not only name call people who stage door, but you also lump ALL people who stage door in one negative category- how stupid. I guess even those who have worked with the actor and want to meet them and wait at the stage door are odious too, because they are standing outside with the audience waiting to meet cast members.
-Most of the time if they don't want to bother with stage door, they go out a side door OR they go out the front where the audience exits (that way they just blend in with the crowd).
And comparing stage dooring to video taping and using your phone is stupid- the two later things are both illegal and it is announced and written that it is not allowed. Stage Door is neither illegal or discouraged by the theater.
Darreyl with an L!
FishermanBob
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/9/12
#24Jake Gyllenhaal Stage door
Posted: 12/23/14 at 3:20am
"Perhaps you might consider knowing what you are talking about before you start calling other people names."
Says the guy calling everyone and anyone who dares to try to say hello at a stage door, odious.
Hogan, you ever walk past those guys standing on a step stool, thumping the bible around 42nd street, screaming at the top of their lungs about damnation and burning in hell etc. etc. If you're like most people, you look at them and shake your head. You dismiss them as idiots and crackpots. You don't actually listen to what they are saying or the message they are trying to deliver, you just look at how they are saying it and how they are delivering that message in such an over the top, ridiculous manner and write them off as buffoons.
Well, that's you right now. It's one thing to make your point which you have done already repeatedly, but this on-going campaign which you have undertaken, every thread that mentions stagedooring, the same over the top, buffoonish, you're all odious, you're the vermin of the earth (my words, but your implication). Very few are thinking about what you are saying, just how you are saying it, pushing your point harder and harder in every post, and I'm sure many are just writing you off as a guy who is in the process of losing it. Trying to get people to change their behavior with such an over the top, heavy handed approach will never, ever allow you to achieve your goal. In fact, you'll likely push some in the opposite direction. They will only focus on how you are saying it, be insulted by your tone and never think about what your message actually is.
You should also consider whether you can achieve more in terms of convincing people to behave appropriately by having a message of "if someone doesn't want to sign, leave them alone and don't be a jerk at the stage door" rather than labeling the entire practice even if both parties are perfectly willing to engage in it, as odious. Even you must understand, as much as you seem to want to play the role of moral compass for the theater-going public, the practice will not end, no matter what you say.
