JAKE GYLLENHAAL: That is like fulfilling the dreams that I had when I was eight years old. So how does it feel to finally have your own action figure? JAKE GYLLENHAAL: No! I am a video game adaptation. Now in Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time you have become a sort of super hero? I make a lot of movies about turning back time and a lot of movies in the desert. You must have been conditioned by Jarhead? The desert is really cleansing…the sand exfoliates your skin….and there is a nice warm dry sun and you are sweating. The weather in Morocco during filming was supposed to be so hot and sandy that it was almost like having sand in your mouth all the time? So that was it from the beginning, there was no acting required. The first time we met she looked at me as though she was unimpressed and I looked at her like…’You should be! Why aren’t you?’…(joked). She and I had a sort of tit for that thing. We might spend a month on an action scene and half a day on that scene (with Gemma). It was unfortunate that the ended so quickly. They came so naturally and we shot them so fast.
JAKE GYLLENHAAL: Oh definitely! Those scenes I think were the best written and the most fun to play. That must have helped in the scenes where your characters banter together? You and Gemma Arterton have great chemistry on screen in Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time. He talked with us about his preparation for the role, his chemistry with Gemma Arterton, what it’s like to have his own action figure, and more! Check it out below. We had the pleasure of talking with Jake Gyllenhaal who plays Prince Dastan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.