Actor Jake Gyllenhaal has spoken about his experience being cast alongside Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain back in 2006.
Speaking in an interview with , Jake reflected on his involvement in the film as a straight man, sharing: "I think we had been cast for our 'essences', without really understanding what our 'essences' were."
He added: "And that’s outside of our sexuality – we’re two straight guys cast in these roles. But who we are, who we were, Ang could see.
"And I don’t know if I could [see that essence]." So when the movie had the response that it had… I don’t think we recognised what Ang had seen in us."
Gyllenhaal said that, at the time of production, he and Legder hadn't realised just how important the film would become to LGBTIQ+ audiences.
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"So we were blind at the profundity and the echo the movie made… and I don’t think we ever had any idea it would have the impact that it had.
"To make a movie that even just works is a miracle," he added. "When it resonates even beyond that, it’s impossible. And it has nothing to do with you in the end."
Gyllenhaal stars in the new Spider-Man movie alongside Tom Holland, which is in cinemas now.
