This was a recent post and photo from a movie premiere last week on the site Just Jared with a mind-boggling amount of Six Degrees of Jake Gyllenhaal and Narnia thought it was interesting because it really does show what a small world it can be in Tinsel Town, particularly for the closeted crowd.
Let's start with the photo.
• Jason Segel - on the left is actor Jason Segel. Jason is a childhood school friend of Jake's. Both attended Harvard-Westlake High School, with Jake graduating in 1998 and Segel in 1997. Also, Jason "dated" actress Michelle Williams, who we know has close ties to Jake. And even though Jake is not credited in the tabloids as being responsible for Segel/Williams' contract, I mean relationship, the person who is, also has ties to Jake - Busy Phillips. And we know all of the history between Jake and Busy.
• Jesse Plemons - Standing next to Jason is Jesse Plemons, who is now "married" to Jake's former beard, Kirsten Dunst. LOL! In a familiar scenario which is used to tell the public how a Hollywood couple found true love, Dunst and Plemons are supposed to have fallen in love on the set of season two of a Fox show called Fargo. 👀
• Lily Collins - Besides being a co-star of Jake's in the movie, Okja, Lily is no doubt more well known for providing Jake some wardrobe het cred. Who hasn't seen the photos? This one directly below is a double bonus because it also includes 2017 meard and co-star, Paul Dano, who is seen also marveling at the dress train. 👗
• Charlie McDowell - On the far right is Charlie McDowell, who is "married" to Lily Collins. Charlie McDowell is an "ex" of actress Rooney Mara's. And in 2016, Jake was seen walking around NYC with Rooney and Charlie, only Charlie was left out of nearly all of the photos, thus intentionally swirling around "dating rumors" for Rooney and Jake, which were immediately squashed! One of the lamest ideas from Jake's team.
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| Yup! There he is on the left - Charlie McDowell |
And if that's not enough for you, it was announced in 2019 that Jake and his production company Nine Stories (along with partner Riva Marker), were going to produce a movie called Gilded Rage and Charlie McDowell was slated to write and direct. And then, Lily Collins was added to the cast! Boy, the coincidences. Supposedly, Gilded Rage is in that big Gyllenhaal black hole otherwise known as pre-production, even though in this particular article, filming was hoped to start in the fall of 2019. 👀
• In the Just Jared article, it is mentioned that Charlie McDowell's mother is, guess who? This is some additional #sixdegrees of good trivia. McDowell's mother is Mary Steenbergen, who is married to Ted Danson. Some of us are quite familiar with Austin appearing at various Oceana galas and summer party events, but the affiliation really started with his spouse, Jake, who attended the 2nd annual Oceana Partners Gala waaaaay back in 2004.
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| Fetus Jake with Ted Danson & Mary Steenburgen for Oceana, 2004 |
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| Austin w beard Chlo Bennett, Ted Danson, 2014 |
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| Austin w another beard, Chumley, and Ted Danson, 2018 |
And supposedly last fall, 2021, this (below) was supposed to be Austin with Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Laura Dern. We all know that Laura Dern was in October Sky with Jake. The Six Degrees of Jake is jumping off the charts by this point. But this photo is a bit hinky - Austin looks like he has a sumo wrestler costume on under the suit, I don't knowwwww 😉 ... another reason why we think it's hinky is because this Oceana event was October 26 last year, soon after Baby Tile's birthday. Not a huge deal, but 👀 you could see where Danson and Steenbergen (and Laura Dern would be understanding for that matter) would be willing to provide GPS cover for Austin.
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| Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, Laura Dern and Austin Nichols, 2021 |
• Ashley Park - also name-dropped in the article, look who was in attendance at this particular screening. Ashley Park, whose television workload has really taken off since around 2017, same year she appeared in Sunday in the Park With George as part of Jake and Annaleigh Ashford's theater cast (a reward perhaps). Isn't that something. It was Ashley Park and Claybourne Elder's Instagram and twitter accounts in particular which were used during the SITPWG run to help peddle Leo the paper dog and GPS placement during Austin's birthday. Good times and memories!
And there we have it! Six Degrees of Jake in one little photo and Just Jared post. Amazing, isn't it? In one single photo. Gotta love it!
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Late Anniversary observance:
It was six (6) years ago this past Saturday, March 12, 2016, that Austin and Jake were spotted hanging out together at SXSW 2016 in Austin, TX. At 1:01 PM in the afternoon, I sent a big heads up email to Oh My Godot blogspot's Grand Poobah, Special K, and our own Methodical Muser of an Austin sighting at the film festival. It seemed too good to be true for we just didn't get these kinds of sightings anymore and hadn't seen the guys together since 2012. Jakers and Austie ridin' in the Big Black Tahoe.
And from there, my twitter account @goosestile proceeded to get into a Twitter meleé with another account by the name of Meganharris as she gaslit and flipped photos and turned them black and white, etc. etc. but the bottom line was, the two men managed to "leak" two photos of themselves within the same frame. Austin was turned around in one of them and a profile shot in the other, plus there needed to be a third party shoehorned in for Jake to be involved with, but as we look back now five years later, this was as far as they could take it, right?
It was not an official photo op, no coffee cups in hand, no walking the sidewalks of NYC in front of brick walls even with a former nanny as a chaperone, but they had just had Baby Tile Congras very late in 2015, so this very well was their Baby Tile shoutout as we have pointed out their tradition for every child that they've had in our Day 30 of 30 Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles Masterpost . This is one of the clues that it was a purposely planned "accident": the compromised twitter account captioning this as "precious".
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| Jake hugging a friend at SXSW, 2016 |
That photo (directly above) with the faceless friend was the "Personal Protective Equipment" (aka PPE) which was required for these very public and choreographed photos to be allowed:
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| Austin with Jake at SXSW Mar 12 2016 |
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| Austin's reflection, with Jake Mar 12 2016 SXSW |
Six years ago.
Jake and Austin were not allowed (or perhaps intentionally a "no-go"), for an official photo op. Couldn't even be seen both facing the camera together. Couldn't be photo'd together in the Tahoe, you know, like we got to see Jake with the Tony's Hottie Guy in the back of the limo "jetting away together" back in 2013 {as discussed in our post "Getting Sunday Sentimental: Jake and the Tony's Hottie, Circa June 9, 2013"].
But still, this was incredibly impactful because as stated before, they had not been seen together since 2012 and what had online commenters been saying, including Ted Casablanca?
That they had both moved on (even from a platonic friendship, if one believed that was all that ever existed). "Done-zo".
And since we're here, let's look at another similar OTP couple that Narnia has kept tabs on, which is Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles. You know, the ones who have polarized many of their fans into battle sides through public separation, separate career projects and the hugely splashed "prequel-gate", which was designed to drive the biggest wedge through their J2 fandom. And though meard Misha Collins continues to receive bonus pay after bonus pay, once in awhile, Jared and Jensen will still occasionally slip out one of their own shout-outs. The argument can be made that those shout-outs are also pandered, which some are because after all, they're still appearing at conventions and they want those fans to continue spending the exorbitant prices, but at least they are still the true OTP.
And similar to Jake and Austin prior to their sighting together at SXSW 2016, Jared and Jensen (in Tumblr-ville anyway), have been often hash-tagged and speculated to be "done-zo". There's even a term batted around for it - J2divorce or J2fallout.
So anyway, back to SXSW 2022. Jensen wore a suede jacket in a spectacular, exquisite shade of sea glass in a big photo shoot for his new show, Amazon's The Boys, at this year's SXSW in Austin, TX. I thought it was one of the most beautiful colored jackets I've ever seen.
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| Jensen for The Boys photoshoot 2022 |
[There are so many photos from the photoshoot, though with all of the filters used, it's hard to see which is the true color. The one above isn't the best photo, but many of the pics have Getty's watermark on them. ]
But meard Misha Collins showed once again he can't be left out of anything. He has to either shoehorn himself in or be shoehorned in by TPTB to remind everyone that he's still under meard contract.
And so that was a breadcrumb to heller fans because you know, "blue and green" (which they stole from the larries) and all that. Embarrassing, really. But again, it shows that so much is coordinated when it comes to this trio of men.
J2 did allow for Jared to be seen at the after-party of The Boys at SXSW. And I don't care how you try to spin it or downplay it. It's comparable to beard Reese Witherspoon never being photo'd inside of the wall at Maggie Gyllenhaal's wedding with Peter Sarsgaard in Italy.
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| Stephen, Jake at Maggie Peter wedding Italy 05 02 09 |
That was at the height of the "Reeke relationship" between Jake and Witherspoon. If you recall, the twosome participated in a bike-riding photo op leading up to the wedding day and a PDA-sprinkled outing later with the matriarch. But Witherspoon did not get behind the wall.
Well, as someone else phrased it on Tumblr, Jared was Jensen's plus-one at The Boys' after party. You can see Jared in two separate videos and Jensen as well, but in neither vid, are both men facing the camera together. And that is an important detail; may seem insignificant, but it's really not because it's a sign of things to come somewhere down the line for Jared and Jensen. You're shown just enough, but not the whole enchilada.
The video is shot so that it looks voyeuristic and "natural", but it's not natural. It was planned and it's allowed. But like Jake and Austin's SXSW photo together, you'll gladly and thankfully take it. LOL!
And at Prime's party concert with Jensen and members of The Boys cast:
And intern, I mean chronic Jared-basher tumblr account grumpygills can try to downplay and hyper-focus on his attendance that night (this is some real barrel-scraping reaching),
smh. Sorry to spoil that party, but this was a big night for Jensen because it was a professional appearance for him and the cast at a prominent film festival. Jared wasn't in any of the promo photos. But, he was where? At the social events. S-O-C-I-A-L. Like a company holiday party. Jared was the Plus-1, seen briefly but just enough to let it be known he was there, and that is hardly spotlight shoehorning, as that tumblr account would like folks to think.
End of. Smh.
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In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, here's a few of our faves wearing their green!
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| Liam in Brazil, June 2019 |
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| a young Louis Tomlinson |
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| Jake at the Masters? 😊 |
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| Zayn Malik in ribbed green! |
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| Niall Horan in green denim |
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| Eric Hosmer WOW! |
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| Harry in Dublin 2018 |
🍀🍀🍀🍀 Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀🍀🍀🍀
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our playlist: Unicorn Song - The Irish Rovers
Come By the Hills - Celtic Thunder
Blarney Pilgrim/Kesh - Emmett Cooke
The Isle of Innisfree - Bing Crosby
Brown-Eyed Girl - Ryan Kelly and Neil Byrne
Don't Go - Ryan Kelly and Neil Byrne
