Overview
- Gyllenhaal received the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival President’s Award and spoke to international journalists about her work while at the festival.
- She said her directing aims are to show complex, multifaceted female characters and to explore darker or neglected aspects of motherhood that few films address.
- Gyllenhaal described directing as a major responsibility similar to motherhood, saying the role felt both powerful and terrifying and that she relishes the prep work with collaborators.
- Warner Bros. has optioned Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake for Gyllenhaal to write and develop as a directing vehicle, a project she called very early and private, and she remains partnered with the studio despite The Bride’s weak box office.
- While promoting her films she also made personal and political remarks, saying she would not celebrate the Fourth of July this year and confirming that her daughter, Ramona, was among people arrested at a Columbia University protest last year.