Jake Gyllenhaal Took the Camera From Michael Bay to Shoot ‘Ambulance’ Scenes Himself
variety.comZack Sharf Jake Gyllenhaal surprised his “Ambulance” co-star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II on the set of the upcoming Michael Bay action movie by taking the camera out of the filmmaker’s hand and directing scenes of the movie himself. “Ambulance” is based on the 2005 Danish film of the same name by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen.
The film marks Bay’s first directorial effort since Netflix’s “6 Underground” in 2019.“There were times when he would take the camera from Mike [Bay] and then you look around and Jake is shooting the scene,” Abdul-Mateen recently told Esquire as part of the magazine’s Gyllenhaal cover story. “I had never seen anything like that before.
I’m curious about those things, but I would never ask the director if I could shoot a scene.” Abdul-Mateen said Gyllenhaal made the entire “Ambulance” set “his playground” during production.
Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, said he always wondered what filming a Bay movie would be like, adding the filmmaker “can be brash and he can be awkward” on set.
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