Jake Gyllenhaal discusses Brokeback. Again.

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal, continues on his whirlwind promotion tour for new movie Rendition with an interview in the Telegraph out yesterday. Predictably, the interviewer took a detour from discussing Gyllenhaal's new movie and alluded to something the actor had said while promoting Brokeback Mountain.

As always, I'm struck by how gracious the actor is in discussing Brokeback, even when, presumably, an interview is intended to promote another project.

In this instance, the interviewer asked Gyllenhaal to elaborate on a comment he once made about homosexuality: "I don't think I'd be afraid of it if it happened."

"Nothing like that has ever happened to me. I live in a different world. What I was trying to say was why leave out possibilities in my life? It wasn't meant to be provocative."

The Telegraph interviewer went further and asked whether Gyllenhaal was being calculating when he allowed people to think he was [bisexual]. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the actor ever really fostered the impression that he swung both ways.)

"It was meant as a way of saying it was important for Heath Ledger and I to have the movie exist as the movie, but also to have people know it was two straight actors playing those parts....Here are these two lonely people who find themselves through love. Love has no bounds and these two people found a connection in this massive, lonely landscape of Wyoming."

Finally, the interviewer asked if Gyllenhaal got nasty letters from homophobes.

"Determining what was nasty and what was nice was always going to be hard for me with that movie. But yes, I got an insight into homophobia that I wouldn't normally have encountered."

You can find the full interview here.