A screening followed by a Q&A with Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Miguel Gomez, and Oona Laurence.
Moderated by Bruce Fretts, Closer Weekly.
Synopsis
From acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) and screenwriter Kurt Sutter (Sons of Anarchy), Southpaw tells the riveting story of Billy "The Great" Hope, reigning Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World (Academy Award® nominee Jake Gyllenhaal). Billy Hope seemingly has it all with an impressive career, a beautiful and loving wife (Rachel McAdams), an adorable daughter (Oona Laurence) and a lavish lifestyle. When tragedy strikes and his lifelong manager and friend (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) leaves him behind, Hope hits rock bottom and turns to an unlikely savior at a run-down local gym: Tick Willis (Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker), a retired fighter and trainer to the city's toughest amateur boxers. With his future riding on Tick's guidance and tenacity, Billy enters the hardest battle of his life as he struggles with redemption and to win back the trust of those he loves.
RATED R - This program will include explicit, sexual, disturbing or offensive content and is intended for mature audiences only.
Note: this is a joint event with the SAG Nominating Committee. There will be two separate lines for check-in so please double-check that you are in the correct line.
Running Time: 123 minutes
Panelist Bios
Jake Gyllenhaal - actor
An Academy Award®-nominated actor, Jake Gyllenhaal has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation with an array of emotionally searing and physically challenging roles defining his body of work.
Gyllenhaal most recently starred in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, one of the actor’s boldest and most acclaimed performances to date. Playing an eccentric loner who finds his calling as an investigative crime journalist who will stop at nothing to get the story, Gyllenhaal received BAFTA, Golden Globe, SAG, Critics’ Choice, and Independent Spirit Award nominations and was recognized as Best Actor of 2014 from numerous critics groups.
In January 2015, Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in Nick Payne’s Constellations, which opened to rave reviews. The actor made his New York stage debut in 2012 starring in If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, for the Roundabout Theatre Company, which earned him nominations from the Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards. It was his first stage performance since 2002, when he starred in Kenneth Lonergan's revival of This is Our Youth on London's West End, for which he won an Evening Standard Theater Award for “Outstanding Newcomer.”
Working with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers in both independent and studio films, Gyllenhaal starred in Ang Lee's classic Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Oscar® nomination and won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor; David Ayer’s End of Watch, which placed in several critics’ Top 10 Films of 2012 including the National Board of Review’s Top Ten Independent Films; Dennis Villeneuve’s highly acclaimed films Prisoners and Enemy; Richard Kelly's cult hit Donnie Darko; Jim Sheridan's Brothers; David Fincher's Zodiac; Sam Mendes' Jarhead; John Madden's Proof; Miguel Arteta's The Good Girl; Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile; Nicole Holofcener's Lovely and Amazing; Joe Johnston's October Sky; and Ed Zwick's Love and Other Drugs, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination.
Rachel McAdams - actor
McAdams is currently starring in the second season of Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective. She plays "Sheriff Ani Bezzirades”, a Ventura County Sheriff’s detective whose uncompromising ethics put her at odds with others and the system she serves. She stars alongside Colin Farrell, Taylor Kitsch, and Vince Vaughn.
Prior to that, McAdams wrapped production on three other projects. Most recent being Thomas McCarthy’s Spotlight, starring alongside Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo. The film tells the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese. She then shot Wim Wenders' Everything Will Be Fine starring opposite James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor. The film is a story about a writer, Tomas (Franco), who accidentally causes the death of a child while driving and spends the next 12 years examining the effect of the tragedy on his life and that of Kate, the child’s mother. Finally, McAdams lent her voice as a character in Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince alongside James Franco and Jeff Bridges.
Miguel Gomez - actor
Miguel Gomez is currently starring in Guillermo del Toro's limited FX series’ The Strain, based on Guillermo’s Vampire Novel trilogy. Previously Miguel was featured in Carl Franklin’s Bless Me Ultima, as well as The Domino Effect opposite James D’Arcy for Oscar nominated director Paula van der Oest.
Oona Laurence - actor
Oona Laurence started acting at age five in her Dad’s film Days Dance, and has since been in films and on stage in both dramatic roles and comedies. She has been reincarnated in Reinc., turned the tables on a kidnapper in the Utah high desert in Penny Dreadful (which won 3 dozen awards in festivals worldwide), learned Romanian for Esther, and appeared with F. Murray Abraham and Ralph Macchio in A Little Game, her first feature. She won a Tony and was nominated for a Grammy as one of the original Matiladas on Broadway. Since completing her run in Matilda, she has wrapped shooting on The Grief of Others, appeared in I Smile Back, and workshopped the role of Young Amelie in a new musical based on the movie Amelie. Just completed shooting a lead in the indie feature Lamb in Colorado and Wyoming.
