On Monday night’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Jake Gyllenhaal and host Jimmy Fallon took a trip down a fake memory lane in one messy skit. Fallon told the actor that he had found footage (which was fake) of the two when they worked on a project together long before the two became household names.
The made up show, “Point Pleasant Police Department,” played out like an ’80s procedural cop drama with Gyllenhaal playing the part of Fallon’s grumpy sidekick. Throughout the entire “episode,” however, Fallon and Gyllenhaal kept spitting things - like coffee, doughnuts, crackers and apples - into each other’s faces.
“I’ve had some pretty intense roles, but this was the most intense,” Gyllenhaal joked. “It’s really in-your-face.”
“Our two characters were constantly yelling at each other, and we got into some pretty messy situations,” Fallon said before playing the first of three fake scenes from “Point Pleasant Police Department.”
In between each scene of the cop show - which was actually filmed live during “The Tonight Show” - Fallon and Gyllenhaal rushed back to their set seats, quickly wiping off their faces before moving on to the next scene. By the time the two got to the last skit, which they said was “taped” during the writers’ strike, there were no lines at all, just food being spat.
Watch “Point Pleasant Police Department” below.
During the interview portion of the same episode of “The Tonight Show,” Gyllenhaal told Fallon about some of the worst film auditions he ever gave, including a particularly awful one for “The Lord of the Rings.” The actor said he auditioned for the part of Frodo, which eventually went to Elijah Wood. He said that during the initial part of the audition, there were no actual lines for him to read, just stage directions. Then, when he eventually auditioned again with lines, he did not do a British accent, something that he did not know he was supposed to do.
“[Director Peter Jackson] literally said, ‘You are the worst actor that I have ever seen,’” Gyllenhaal told Fallon. “Jackson was like, ‘Fire your agents!’”
Gyllenhaal then went on to reveal that he also auditioned for the Ashton Kutcher film “Dude, Where’s My Car” and a lot of other “classic films” he did not get parts in.
