Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
#1Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 6:33am
Jake Gyllenhaal recently said he’d like to do Fiddler next. Is the remake of the movie still happening? I’d prefer Jake to Josh Gad. Gad has more of the look, but he does the same voice for every character, and I don’t want to hear Olaf as our milkman. Thoughts?
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Jake-Gyllenhaal-Reveals-the-Show-Hed-Like-to-Appear-in-Next-on-Broadway-20230418?fbclid=IwAR2KCsOfig9zRxYIPd-Q2eSSfqduLZlrYM0hwsz5zUQ5Ba3JitbeSBkCpak&mibextid=Zxz2cZ
inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#2Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 8:20am
I can only see a new film version being done for some streaming service as a prestige project.
I'm sure Gyllenhaal would sell tickets on Broadway - he probably does better now as a lead on Bwy than as a lead in films. But, he's only 42. For Tevye I'd prefer he wait until he's a bit older. There are plenty of roles he could tackle now.
Now that Encores has done Dear World, maybe they could do Jerry Herman 's The Grand Tour next?
Or, how about a revival of Little Me? The Martin Short revival closed 24 years ago.
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Chase Miller
Understudy Joined: 9/12/22
#3Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 8:22am
I don’t think Josh Gad or Gyllenhal would make a good Tevye
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#4Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 8:24am
You realize Topol was in his 30’s when he started playing Tevye and when the movie was made, yeah?
Broadway61004
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/11
#5Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 9:52am
I'm sorry, most people would turn down starring in a movie to get to be in their high school musical? Jamie Lee, exactly who are you talking about here?
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#6Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:01am
willep said: "You realize Topol was in his 30’s when he started playing Tevye and when the movie was made, yeah?"
Technically, the character breakdown for Tevye is 35-60. It truly relies on the actor and how he portrays an older man. Topol did just that so he wasn’t just playing Tevye as himself but adding the older man physicality, mannerisms, voice, etc. The beard alone created the visual needed as even a 15 year old male with a beard can look 40.
This is Topol when he played Tevye in the original 1967 London production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (at age 32):
#7Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:06am
When I saw Topol in Flash Gordon, I was shocked by how young, strong and handsome he looked, and that was nearly twenty years after he did Fiddler. So much of the weary, broken dairyman was just acting and a little makeup.
Theatrefan2
Understudy Joined: 3/27/22
#8Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:13am
BrodyFosse123 said: "willep said: "You realize Topol was in his 30’s when he started playing Tevye and when the movie was made, yeah?"
Technically, the character breakdown for Tevye is 35-60. It truly relies on the actor and how he portrays an older man. Topol did just that so he wasn’t just playing Tevye as himself but adding the older man physicality, mannerisms, voice, etc. The beard alone created the visual needed as even a 15 year old male with a beard can look 40.
This is Topol when he played Tevye in the original 1967 London production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (at age 32):"
He actually has the look of Jake in that photo. I can see Jake in Fiddler much more than Josh.
Also these days age is so much more subjective. People look younger now than they did 30 or more years ago at the same age.
#9Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:15am
Tevye and Golde have been married for 25 years. So by rights Tevye is at least 43 or 44.
#10Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:15am
First, obviously duh yes please God in heaven let this happen and happen ASAP but secondly, I feel like Tevye is like Rose, where he’s usually played a lot older than he should be.
If we’re looking at a man like Tevye with 7 children who has been married for 25 years, from a historical standpoint, it’s more than possible Tzeitel was born before he was even 18 and she’s 19 in the musical. So knowing that and just saying he was 18 when married he’d be 43 (very possible he was a couple years older or younger). Right now, Jake is 42 so it’s perfect casting.
#11Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:30am
That’d be 5 kids as far as we know. Unless he has a couple more by Yente that no one’s admitting to...
#12Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 10:46am
Someone in a Tree2 said: "That’d be 5 kids as far as we know. Unless he has a couple more by Yente that no one’s admitting to..."
^Jordan might be thinking of the Sholem Aleichem source material, where Tevye does have 7 children. In the musical it's reduced to 5.
#13Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 11:08am
Actually, I just mistyped. But we'll go with me being scholarly and saying 7 for that reason. 
#14Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 11:09am
Come to think of it, I kept thinking Topol looked like Jake in Flash Gordon.
verywellthensigh
Leading Actor Joined: 6/14/22
#15Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 11:28am
There is absolutely nothing about Jake Gyllenhaal that says "patriarchal father figure".
JasonC3
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/21
wickedwitch2
Swing Joined: 8/3/11
#17Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 12:21pm
I think he'd be very good. If the movie goes forward, I expect either him or Andrew Garfield will end up getting cast as Tevye.
#18Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 12:51pm
Jordan Catalano said: "Actually, I just mistyped. But we'll go with me being scholarly and saying 7 for that reason. "
If the Schuylers can really have more than the three daughters, Tevya can have a couple more kids, too,
I think Sinatra as Tevya should have happened:
I’m Frank Sinatra, and I’m Perfect for the Role of Tevye - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (mcsweeneys.net)
#19Gyllenhaal’s Tevye?
Posted: 4/18/23 at 1:04pm
There are those among us who have a Tevye thing; and many would say that they are definitely not opposed to this casting idea!
