{"id":4126,"date":"2015-03-30T12:13:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2015-03-30T12:13:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T16:13:54","slug":"beastly-jake-gyllenhaal-in-first-southpaw-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2015\/03\/30\/beastly-jake-gyllenhaal-in-first-southpaw-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Beastly Jake Gyllenhaal in First ‘Southpaw’ Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The first trailer of Antoine Fuqua’s boxing film, Southpaw<\/em><\/a> starring Jake Gyllenhaal, looks to be an intense piece of cinema. The trailer depicts a fight-ready Gyllenhaal playing Billy Hope, a contender that slams into rock bottom after losing his family, only to climb out by coming back to the ring. More or less , this is something we’ve seen before; however, It’s a slightly different angle from recent boxing flicks, and it seems to be quite a juicy role to bite into for Gyllenhaal.<\/p>\n

This film probably won’t surprise anyone with its storyline, but it’s definitely one that will allow Gyllenhaal to flex his acting talents. He was amazing in last year’s Nightcrawler<\/em>, and it seems like he’s brought\u00a0his A game to this role as well. Plain and simple, Gyllenhaal looks like he hit the beast mode button. Here’s hoping for a knockout from Fuqua.<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal will be joined by Forest Whitaker, Rachel McAdams, and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. The film will be released on July 31, 2015.<\/p>\n