While promoting his new movie. road house, Jake Gyllenhaal opened up about how he experienced some physical setbacks while on the action-packed set.
During his appearance on Dax Shepard’s Armchair expert On the podcast, Gyllenhaal revealed that not only did he suffer a hand injury during a fight scene with boxing legend Conor McGregor, but he also ended up with a staph infection.
He plays the role of former MMA fighter Elwood Dalton. “We’re fighting on the floor, we’re fighting around the tables,” he explained. “We are fighting around glass, even if it is breakable glass. “I put my hand on the bar, fucking straight glass… I felt the glass go into my hand.”
Jake Gyllenhaal later said his entire arm “swollen,” which is the result of a staph infection. “There were things like that that happened all the time,” he continued. “But fortunately, I was really trying to take care of everything we did and my body while we did it.”
Gyllenhaal also noted that he did not suffer any serious injuries. “Which is a testament to the team he was working with,” he added.
road house is a commentary on the action-packed 1989 film starring the late Patrick Swayze. The film follows Dalton as he accepts a job as a bouncer at a tavern in the Florida Keys. He then discovers that this paradise is not what it seems. Along with Gyllenhaal and McGregor, the film stars Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, BK Cannon and Jessica Williams.
Conor McGregor says ‘Road House’ fight scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal are ‘very real’
Meanwhile, Conor McGregor said PEOPLE Earlier this week, the fight scenes with Jake Gyllenhaal were very real.
“It wasn’t a fake fight,” he said. “I don’t think so. As a man who fights for a living, it was very, very real. Very real. There were real shots.”
Also chatting about memorable fight moments with Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor McGregor said: “I hit him, he hit me back, and then the stuntmen who intervened at times also took some big shots.”
Also during his visit to Tonight’s show starring Jimmy Fallon, Gyllenhaal said some of the hits were real. “By mistake, he hit me in the face,” the actor explained. “We would do a take [of] fake fights, and then we would go look at the monitors to see it, to see what worked.”
Despite some real blows, Jake Gyllenhaal claimed that McGregor was always great to him. “He would tell me to do things like, ‘Oh, you know, turn your hand, move a little more this way to try to make it look more real.'”
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