(For one thing, a movie with a gay protagonist has nowactually won the Best Picture Oscar.)
“Someone wanted to make a joke about the story or whatever he was like, No.
This about love.'

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Like, that’s it, man,” the actor said.
Gyllenhaal also spoke about the film’s impact on audiences and his own career.
“When we didBrokeback Mountain, I was like, Whoa, what’s going on?'
“This little movie we made that meant so much to us has now become not ours anymore.
It’s the world’s.”
“It opened tons of doors, it was amazing,” he added.
“It’s defined my career in different ways.”
Gyllenhaal spoke to former PEOPLE and EW editorial director Jess Cagleabout Ledger’s death in 2016.
“I think it [gave me] the experience of, This is fleeting.'
That changed a lot for me.”
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