The Oscar-nominated star has been having a long, hard think about his life while in lockdown.
He’s decided that, while he is “proud of my achievements, especially professionally”, he might have missed out on the more personal side of life.
“I realised how much more fun I would like to be,” Gyllenhaal says.
His life awakening has involved committing to his duties as an uncle. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s two daughters are “truly, and I’m not just saying this because it’s an interview, two of the most incredible people. They come from a long line of incredible women.”
Speaking of his love for women, he mentions Greta Thunberg as an inspiring figure, and has also been enjoying reading Rachel Cusk’s book of essays, Coventry.
He believes that women “are superior to men” in various ways.
Prue Leith is “a person whose behaviour I aspire to have”, he says, also confessing a love for #GBBO.
He will not talk about the women he has dated.
Neither his supposed exes Taylor Swift, Kirsten Dunst, Reese Witherspoon and Natalie Portman, nor his apparent girlfriend, Jeanne Cadieu, a 25-year-old French model.
It’s better than good. It’s magnificent. With #NoTimetoDie, Daniel Craig's Bond has finally delivered on his initial promise – a moving portrait of an antiquated hero facing his own obsolescence thetimes.co.uk/article/no-tim…
Daniel Craig’s last outing as 007 was cursed by Covid, changing directors, changing scrips, injuries — and even an Amazon takeover. How did it all still come together?
In May 2018, Danny Boyle was announced as the man who would make Craig’s final hurrah. But in August of that year, he suddenly bowed out due to “creative differences”
What happened? Did he want to kill off Bond? Or something more?
Daniel Craig acknowledged the pressures resting on the shoulders of James Bond to provide a boost to the cinema industry as he prepared to walk the red carpet for the last time as the British spy #NoTimeToDie thetimes.co.uk/article/no-tim…
At 163 minutes, this is the longest Bond movie of them all, beating Spectre (2015), the previous record holder, by 15 minutes. #NoTimeToDie
#WorldatFive🌏: Richard Spencer reports from al-Hawl in Syria on the thousands of families living in internment camps after being displaced by the fall of ISIS. thetimes.co.uk/article/soon-t…
Islam Haitham was found dead in a sewage ditch.
Her face is framed by curly black hair. Her eyebrows are unkempt, but they added extra character to a look that could easily be imagined as laughing. The entrance wound in her right cheek from the shot that killed her is neat.
No one knows why she was killed, at least among the camp authorities. The 20,000 black-clad women who occupy the Iraqi and Syrian section may have an inkling. They nod knowingly when asked about Islam but scurry on and refuse to talk about it.
Netflix has lifted the lid on its “big black box” of viewing data, which it normally keeps closely guarded, to reveal that Bridgerton, the racy Regency-era drama series, is its best performing TV show
Amid pressure from stars and shareholders, the streaming service is slowly becoming more transparent about what people are watching (and what they aren’t)
But which offerings are worth your time? Times critic @KevinTMaher gives you the run-down
Extraction
A vacuous action yarn in which Chris Hemsworth (Thor in the Marvel movies) plays a mercenary who deals with the death of his son by repeatedly shooting people in the face
#worldatfive🌍: President Biden has promised the West’s closest allies in Syria that he will not abandon them as he did Afghanistan, their leader has told The Times thetimes.co.uk/article/biden-…
The White House sent General Frank McKenzie, head of US central command, on an unannounced visit to give a personal assurance to Mazloum Abdi, leader of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in eastern Syria.
The SDF is the Kurdish-dominated alliance of local militias that defeated Isis in eastern Syria with American and British support.
Abdi has forged the SDF into an effective fighting unit and established significant autonomy in eastern Syria since the defeat of Isis.