Maggie Gyllenhaal She admitted that she was worried about mixing business and her personal life before choosing her husband. Peter Sarsgaard in The lost daughter
talking to “The New York Times”The Interview” on Friday, March 6, Gyllenhaal shared that she was initially concerned about her husband playing a character written to have steamy sex scenes when he directed the 2021 film.
“He is “It’s difficult to work with my husband,” Gyllenhaal, 48, told the outlet. “We have done it in many ways. We did it The lost daughterwhere he has a really passionate love story with Jesse Buckley.”
And he added: “And at first I almost didn’t give him the role.”
Gyllenhaal explained that she discussed whether she could juggle her professional role as a director while navigating the reality of her real-life partner by performing racy scenes in front of her.
“I thought, ‘I don’t need that either.’ Besides directing a movie for the first time,” he explained. “I actually offered it to someone else first. And I knew he was hurt. And I remember talking to both my best girlfriend and this teacher. And they both said, ‘You can’t handle this? Can’t you really?’ And I was like, ‘No, I think I actually can.'”
Peter Sarsgaard and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
(Photo by Momodu Mansaray/Getty Images)After changing his mind and casting him in the role, Gyllenhaal said he was finally able to direct The lost daughters Hot scenes from an “emotional, disconnected place.”
“I mean, this wasn’t about sex at all. It was about courtship, which was so passionate and I pushed them and pushed them and watched them create the way real actors have to create love,” Gyllenhaal said.
He also said that he thought Sarsgaard and Buckley’s performances were “brilliant” in the end.
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Sarsgaard was a close friend of Maggie’s brother. Jake Gyllenhaal before striking up a romance with Maggie in 2002. The couple became engaged in 2006 and then married three years later in Brindisi, Italy. Maggie and her husband share daughters, Ramona, 19, and Gloria, 13.
Offering a rare glimpse into his marriage in December 2023, Sarsgaard, 55, shared the “simple” reason why his marriage The dark knight The actress has endured the distance.
“Tell the truth,” said Sarsgaard. MY! News after being asked about the key to a successful marriage. “Isn’t that all there is to it? It’s pretty simple. It’s not that complicated. Isn’t that the secret to any friendship or relationship?”
