Jake Gyllenhaal Shocked ‘Presumed Harmless’ Costars with Candy Deal with

Jake Gyllenhaal shared his candy tooth along with his Presumed Harmless costars!

Talking solely to PEOPLE on the premiere of the Apple TV+ sequence on the Tribeca Movie Pageant on Sunday, June 9, Gyllenhaal’s costar Kingston Rumi Southwick revealed the actor, 43, stunned the solid and crew with some tasty treats throughout filming.

“Jake purchased ice cream vehicles to set and it was a extremely good household setting with the solid, with the crew, with the administrators and all people. It is phenomenal,” the younger star, who performs Gyllenhaal’s on-screen son Kyle Sabich within the drama, shares.

Southwick additionally revealed that his costar Ruth Negga was “positively the trickster” on set and would assist the solid decompress in the course of the “intense” shoot.

“She would [make] paper airplanes and write notes to folks and would make all people chuckle, particularly O-T [Fagbenle]. It simply was good to have these intense moments and have that actual dramatic emotions after which really feel good after which to chuckle,” he says.

The eight-episode present is predicated on the 1987 New York Occasions bestseller of the identical identify by Scott Turow and stars Gyllenhaal, Negga, Fagbenle, Invoice Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, Lily Rabe and Renate Reinsve.

Gyllenhaal can be the present’s govt producer, together with J.J. Abrams and David E. Kelley.

Presumed Harmless follows Rusty Sabich (Gyllenhaal), a Chicago prosecutor who’s accused of the very homicide he’s alleged to be investigating after he has an affair with the sufferer proper earlier than her demise. 

The e-book was beforehand tailored into the 1990 movie starring Harrison Ford. In an analogous vein, Gyllenhaal just lately remade Street Home, taking over the character performed by Patrick Swayze within the 1989 movie of the identical title. 

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Additionally talking solely to PEOPLE on the restricted sequence’ premiere, Gyllenhaal defined that taking part in Sabich introduced an “fascinating problem” and was “not that simple.”

“I believe he’s very specific as a personality, however I believe that David Kelly units up a extremely, actually complicated scenario,” he says. “I believe that is what drew him to it. It additionally drew me to it — of all of the questions that come. However I believe one of many different issues that basically drew me to it was the query of the household. That on this story you actually discover that complete world, and the way all people will get embroiled and enmeshed in it.”

Gyllenhaal instructed The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month that he modeled a few of his Presumed Harmless character’s signature habits after his godfather, Paul Newman, who usually tucked his glasses halfway down his buttoned costume shirt. 

“He additionally wore them hanging from his ear and stuff like that,” Gyllenhaal mentioned.

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As govt producer, Gyllenhaal had a hand in casting and he instructed CNN he knew his brother-in-law, 53-year-old Sarsgaard — who’s married to his sister, actor and director Maggie Gyllenhaal — can be an ideal match for the antagonistic position as one other prosecutor in Sabich’s workplace who suspects he’s responsible. 

“Peter is such an unbelievable actor as a result of he calls for, within the house of appearing or within the scene, a sort of honesty and I believe that’s the identical factor he asks for as an individual,” Gyllenhaal mentioned.

The primary two episodes of Presumed Harmless might be obtainable to stream on Apple TV+ on Wednesday, June 12, and new episodes of the present might be launched each Wednesday till July 24.