OCCUPATION: Actor. AGE: 20. PROVENANCE: Los Angeles. ON THE BUBBLE OF STARDOM: After causing a sensation at Sundance in Donnie Darko, this summer Gyllenhaal (pronounced "Jill-in-hall") stars in Bubble Boy, and he just finished shooting The Good Girl, directed by Miguel Arteta and starring Jennifer Aniston. Currently he's filming Baby's in Black, with Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon, based on the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schoeffer. YOU GREW UP IN L.A. AND ATTENDED HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL—A TYPICAL HOLLYWOOD UPBRINGING: "My father directed a lot of movies and my mom wrote and produced. Get us at a table and all we do is talk about 'the artist's way' like we're fuckin' Uta Hagen and her family." WERE YOU PREPARED FOR THE TRIALS OF A LEADING MAN IN OCTOBER SKY? "I always thought it was going to be like when I went to my parents' sets, which was like hanging out in the trailer, getting free food. I was in every scene, so I really had to work. It was a lot less romantic than I had envisioned."
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