{"id":496908,"date":"2026-03-01T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496908\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:11:07","slug":"maggie-gyllenhaal-acknowledges-shes-had-to-work-through-some-sibling-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496908\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Gyllenhaal acknowledges she’s had to work through some sibling “envy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s about to have a new movie in theaters, as her deliberately provocative creature feature\u00a0The Bride!<\/a>\u00a0exclamation points its way into cineplexes on March 6. That means Gyllenhaal is currently on the promotional rounds, including a pretty in-depth and interesting interview she gave to The New York Times\u00a0this week<\/a> in which she acknowledged, yes: She had some \u201cenvy\u201d to process toward her brother Jake, whose career took off much faster than hers did when they both began acting as teenagers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I was young and Jake was a movie star right away,\u201d Gyllenhaal notes at one point in the interview, \u201cI don\u2019t think I was in touch with the envy, but it was there.\u201d Although she denies that the pair were ever \u201cestranged,\u201d Gyllenhaal also says \u201cWe\u2019ve never been as close as we are now. We\u2019re finally, maybe in the last five years, more and more and more, even each day, really interacting, which is hard for people to do.\u201d (That includes professionally; Jake co-stars in\u00a0The Bride!, along with Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, and Gyllenhaal\u2019s husband, Peter Sarsgaard.)<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal also describes the intensity of inviting her brother to be in the film, saying, \u201cI waited until I was absolutely sure that asking him to do this part was the right thing to do. I remember asking him and tearing up alone in this hotel room I was in, because it meant so much to me. It meant so much for me to interact with him\u2026 In the past, I\u2019ve had to be separate from my family, from my brother. Like, cool, I\u2019ve got my own thing going. We both started so young.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond familial stuff\u2014including the bizarre tensions of directing her husband having sex scenes with Buckley in her directorial debut The Lost Daughter<\/a>\u2014Gyllenhaal also has a lot to say about making movies in general. That includes a perfect willingness to debate the sexual politics of her 2002 breakout Secretary\u00a0(\u201cThe thing about Secretary, at least as I intended it, was that it was consensual. She wanted that erotic relationship with her boss. And so who is anyone to tell her that that is not allowed?\u201d), some studio notes she got on\u00a0The Bride (\u201cMaggie, you cannot have Frankenstein lick black vomit off the Bride\u2019s neck. It\u2019s just too much. You can\u2019t do it.\u201d), and the dearth of big-budget female-directed projects in Hollywood. (\u201cIt\u2019s fine when we make little movies. \u2018Cute,\u2019 you know, \u2018Go make your little movie.\u2019 It starts to get dangerous when women have their hands on a lot of money.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s about to have a new movie in theaters, as her deliberately provocative creature feature\u00a0The Bride!\u00a0exclamation points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-496908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}