Jake Gyllenhaal told E! Online that he prepared for his lead role in the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time film by playing games. Gyllenhaal, who is best known for his roles in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain and Donny Darko, said that, while he is seeing video games with a fresh set of eyes, he is certainly not a newbie to playing games:

[INDENT]"I used to play the side-scrolling version of The Prince of Persia on the first Mac computer in elementary school," Gyllenhaal told journalists via Internet this weekend from London. "And then I took a 20 year hiatus from the game." [/INDENT] Gyllenhaal took up the controller once more after being cast as Prince Dastan, and split his days between playing the Ubisoft game on which the film is based and working out.

[INDENT]"It's a very difficult form of research," Gyllenhaal deadpanned. "Playing the game three or four times a day and getting paid to exercise—it was really tough." [/INDENT] But this quote from the article is something every game can relate to:

[INDENT]"I wish I could go back and tell that eight-year-old kid who was playing the game that, one day, twentysome odd years later, he would be playing the lead in a Jerry Bruckheimer blockbuster movie based on that video game, and just see how his eyes would pop out of his head and how excited he would be," Gyllenhaal mused. "For me, that's kind of how I felt while I was making the movie; I felt like I was unlocking that piece of my childhood again. It was fun every day, running and jumping and fighting bad guys."[/INDENT] Source: [URL=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b180202_jake_gyllenhaals_prince-ly_secret.html#ixzz0nXHFMRz2]E! Online[/URL]

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