Jake Gyllenhaal remembers losing out key role of lifetime

For Christopher Nolan’s Batman, Jake Jake Gyllenhaal was one of the frontrunners but he lost the role to Christian Bale. The actor now remembers the call the filmmaker made to him after it.

Speaking at Howard Stern Show, the Road House star said, “I remember getting a call from Christopher Nolan and thinking, ‘I just got a call personally from Christopher Nolan. That’s pretty cool.”

He continued, “I’ve gotten pretty far. I went from them going they aren’t sure [about me] to a call saying they’re really thinking about you for this movie. So OK, I should keep going. I should just keep going.”

Jake further added, “When you get that far, there’s a real legitimacy to you potentially getting something. It’s not like they’re going, ‘Oh, thanks so much.’

Noting, “They are going, ‘I saw these aspects of you that I really wanted in the role and are wonderful, but in the end, I ended up moving this way because it matches better with this person who is opposite you or would be opposite you.”

“The color of their hair or their height, whatever it is!! There are all these non-factors that really are the inexplicable stuff that if you start to pick away at it doesn’t work, it’s not healthy.”