I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
#1I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
barcelona20
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#2I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#3I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#4I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#5I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#6I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#7I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 1:35pm
We don't need another stage production of COMPANY. How bout Jake in a movie version?
#8I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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
#9I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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
theatregoer3
Broadway Star Joined: 3/8/13
#11I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:31pm
It really is. As long as they don't cast Meryl Streep as Joanne.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#12I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
Updated On: 10/27/16 at 02:31 PM#13I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:35pm
Cate Blanchett for Joanne
#14I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
"So many possibilities."
#15I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:40pm
Toni Collette should play Joanne.
#16I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:42pm
Yes. Let's make this into another dreamcasting thread. To annoy Jordan if nothing else.. :p
#17I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:43pm
Ooh, can Annaleigh Ashford be Amy?
carayip
Swing Joined: 7/2/15
#18I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 2:48pm
If Jake wants to do another Sondheim show, I would rather see him do Passion than Company.
#19I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:09pm
Ooh! Good. Another Sondheim role for him. Giorgio.
George
Bobby
Carl Magnus
Giorgio
#20I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/27/16 at 3:15pm
Sara Ramirez for April.
#21I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#22I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
#23I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
bwayboy22
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/12
#24I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
Posted: 10/28/16 at 7:40am
I'd like to see him play a different Robert, in Bridges of Madison County.
#25I Need Jake Gyllenhaal To Play Bobby
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.
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