Jake Gyllenhaal and the Cast of ’Demolition’ on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Unique Shooting Style

After taking the 360-degree approach to making Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, director Jean-Marc Vallée chose to use the same process on his latest feature, Demolition. The movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Davis, a successful banker who can’t get his life back on track after his wife is killed in a car accident. Rather than grieve in the traditional sense, Davis decides to literally demolish everything in his life in order to put himself back together. Vallée doesn’t make shot lists, he uses minimal hair and make-up, and opts to film with available light, which gives him and the cast the freedom to be creative right there on set rather than approach each shooting day with a strict plan in mind. While in New York City for the film’s upcoming release, I got the chance to chat with Gyllenhaal and his co-stars Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper and Judah Lewis about what it was like working with Vallée and his unconventional shooting style. Demolition hits theaters on April 8th. By Per