This week is a good one, because we’re finally getting more Jake Gyllenhaal on our screens. The Guilty is a 90-minute Netflix thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua about a 911 operator (Gyllenhaal) trying to save a kidnapped woman, and judging by the trailer it’s going to be a pretty tense viewing experience.
But it sounds like the filming experience wasn’t exactly a relaxing one, either. Appearing on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, Gyllenhaal explained that they shot the entire movie over 11 days in October 2020, mid-way through the pandemic — and a couple of days before filming was due to begin, Fuqua had to go into self-isolation.
“We basically found this van with monitors in it and we hard-wired the van to the stage, and Antoine directed the entire movie from a van a block away,” Gyllenhaal explained. “We would talk on the phone in between these takes, and when we were changing setups and we had a little bit of time they put a ladder over the wall of the stage, and I would climb up the ladder and he would come out of his van, and we would talk to each other like Romeo and Juliet.”
Jump to 2:16 in the clip for a photo of the moment.
The Guilty drops on Netflix Oct. 1.
