Jake Gyllenhaal Reveals an Unexpected Thing About Filming Presumed Innocent

Apple TV+'s thrilling new series, Presumed Innocent, just celebrated its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, and this erotic legal drama is already raking in plenty of praise. On top of its stellar cast, led by Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ruth Negga, Gyllenhaal told us as they filmed the series, none of the actors knew what would happen in the next episode, or where it was all going.

The title, Presumed Innocent, leaves the weighty implication hanging — "until proven guilty." Like the 1990 film starring Harrison Ford and the 1987 novel it's based on, Apple's series is about prosecutor Rusty Sabbich (Gyllenhaal), who's put on the case of his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve) when she's found brutally murdered in her home. When it comes to light that Rusty was involved in an affair with Carolyn and that he harbored an obsessive interest in her, his life begins to crumble, with those closest to him in danger of the fallout.

In this interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub, Gyllenhaal and Sarsgaard discuss the protocol for playing characters in a legal drama, why the "persuasion" of acting in any role never changes, and the unusually unique way the actors filmed this particular show. They also discuss each other's performances in past works, like Nightcrawler and Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter.

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