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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby

Jordan Catalano

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#1
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:08pm

I think I actually need to see him do COMPANY now. It's not a want, it's an actual need.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#2
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:11pm

I'm supposed to sympathize with Jake Gyllenhall? The guy who could have any girl he wants? Pass.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#3
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:14pm

^That's the entire point of Bobby.

"So single and attentive and attractive a man
Is everything a person could wish"

He would be perfect.

CindersGolightly

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#4
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:15pm

Jake is a transformative actor. Him in "Little Shop of Horrors" is proof of that. Did he look like he could get anybody he wanted then? Absolutely not. Anyway Jordan, you should become a casting director just to make this happen. I loved Jake before, but after this week I'm simply enamored with him. I want him to play anything.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#5
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:30pm

...if you think the point of Company is that Bobby can't get girls, you've somehow missed the point of Company.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

Jordan Catalano

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#6
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:33pm

And I hope your screenname is where you live and not a reference to the show, since you clearly don't understand it.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#7
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:35pm

We don't need another stage production of COMPANY. How bout Jake in a movie version?

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#8
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:35pm

he has three girls at once, i don't think that's because the character is supposed to be hideous

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#9
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:36pm

If they were ever going to make a film version of it, as they've talked about doing for years, they should do it now with him.

Updated On: 10/27/16 at 01:36 PM

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#10
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:27pm

This is SUCH a good idea.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#11
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:31pm

It really is. As long as they don't cast Meryl Streep as Joanne.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#12
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:31pm

Jordan, I was actually thinking during Sunday how much I'd rather have seen him as Bobby than George. I know many disagree, but I thought Jake's George was too unaffected and, as somebody wrote on the main Sunday thread, "unaware." I wanted more deliberateness and power from him as George. The role of Bobby, however, requires a level of naïveté and a lack of raw force (up until Being Alive). I think Jake would be an amazing Bobby, and I'd likely much prefer him in that role than I did George.

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Updated On: 10/27/16 at 02:31 PM

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#13
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:35pm

Cate Blanchett for Joanne

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#14
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:39pm

My god, if he did two full scale Sondheim revivals, he would totally be on his way to becoming one our great current Sondheim interpreters. The man is crazy talented. Maybe in 15 years he'll be Ben in Follies. Currently, he'd be a ridiculously good Carl Magnus in Night Music.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#15
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:40pm

Toni Collette should play Joanne.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#16
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:42pm

Yes. Let's make this into another dreamcasting thread. To annoy Jordan if nothing else.. :p

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#17
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:43pm

Ooh, can Annaleigh Ashford be Amy?

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#18
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:48pm

If Jake wants to do another Sondheim show, I would rather see him do Passion than Company.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#19
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:09pm

Ooh! Good. Another Sondheim role for him. Giorgio.

George

Bobby

Carl Magnus

Giorgio

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#20
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:15pm

Sara Ramirez for April.

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#21
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:18pm

He'd actually make a good Sweeney too, no? In a couple of years? Bring back that Seymour beard.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#22
Posted: 10/28/16 at 3:38am

I was perfectly content to wait another 5-10 years for Daniel Radcliffe to do it but now this is what I need. You've ruined me.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#23
Posted: 10/28/16 at 6:34am

I want to see him try and do Bernadette Peters doing Sally in FOLLIES. It would really show his versatility as an actor.

"It’s the fractured quality in [Bernadette Peters'] singing voice and line readings that puts across the character as someone for whom resentment is sliding into madness." - NYtimes on Follies (2011).

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#24
Posted: 10/28/16 at 7:40am

I'd like to see him play a different Robert, in Bridges of Madison County.

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I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby#25
Posted: 10/28/16 at 1:10pm

Valentina3 said: "It really is. As long as they don't cast Meryl Streep as Joanne.

"

Actually I really like this idea. It would increase the film's chances of being made, too.

What I want to know is, who is TweetyPie1?

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