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It’s sourdough bread and pear trees for Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis.
The two stars opened up about their time together during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling People that the actor, who is Lee’s godson, and his girlfriend Jeanne Cadieu lived in Curtis’s house next door. Curtis, who won Best Supporting Actress at the 2023 Academy Awards, is friends with Gyllenhaal’s parents, director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner.
“We just got to know each other,” Lee said at the premiere of Gyllenhaal’s new thriller, “The Covenant.” “He also lived with me during COVID for almost a year. He and Jeanne lived in the house next door that I have. And so there was that, too. For a minute.”
Lee revealed that Gyllenhaal, like many people, had turned to bread making around this time, and that he would act, sing and do handstands for the small group.
“He made a lot of sourdough bread, a lot,” Lee said. “So he would sing, play, make sourdough bread. And he would do this test where you had to do a handstand against the wall, take your shirt off and put it back on.”
Gyllenhaal added that the bread baking got stuck.
“I still eat sourdough bread,” he said. “Yes. I haven’t stopped. Even though we’re out of the pandemic, I still make sourdough bread.”
Gyllenhaal’s new film is a military thriller directed by Guy Ritchie and also stars Alexander Ludwig, Antony Starr, Bobby Schofield and Jonny Lee Miller.
