A couple of gallery updates! I’ve added 2 magazine clippings, scans from American Way (November 2006), DVD captures from Sherrybaby (over 700 of them!) and 3 photoshoots, 2 of them I think are new to the web! I scanned them from Japanese movie mags recently - enjoy these goodies!

Why did you do SherryBaby?
It was an exceptional script. It was very real in the way that real human beings do things you wouldn’t imagine. I made it quite a long time ago and was drawn to the fact I didn’t know how I was going to do it, it seemed like a challenge. I’m so glad I did it, though, as it turned out to be about what I hope all my movies are about: someone whom it would be easy to judge but who the audience is invited to love despite how messed up she is.

Is it tedious to promote something you did so long ago?
I know getting involved in a teeny independent movie about someone like Sherry is going to take up many years of my life. It’s not like doing a move like World Trade Centre. I had to promote that film but with Sherry Baby I had to help get it sold, distributed and advertised. A lot is on my shoulders and I’m really the only one who can go out and sell it. I have to be part of that. It’s not like it’s come as a surprise.

You’ve said you had a stormy relationship with the director, why was that?
We shot the movie in five weeks which is a very short time and I was in every moment of every scene so I was working very hard. I felt I was Sherry at the time, I didn’t mean to but I started to. I worked long hours, fell asleep with my clothes on, woke up and went to work again. I was very stubborn and it was hard to have a civilised conversation with me because I was being Sherry. We also had a fundamental disagreement about who she was, I wouldn’t back down on my opinion. Sometimes an actress knows more about the character she’s playing than anyone else can know. I felt the only way that the movie would work would be if Sherry was someone who felt she was getting out of jail and going to be a great mother, which makes the obstacles she has to overcome all the more heartbreaking. Looking back though I must have been a fucking handful.

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A big thanks to Mariana for making us a clip from E! News with footage and a short interview. She said Ramona is doing well and talks about filming the short film with Peter. Click the graphic to your left to download or visit the page. I wanna again say a big thanks to Mariana who provides us with so many videos of Maggie! She’s a real gem! Go and check out her site!

I’ve added some photos of Maggie at the DVD signing of Sherrybaby on January 24th. Check them out in the gallery. If you got the chance to go and meet Maggie there please let us know of your experience! I just ordered my copy of the DVD - I can’t wait to see the film!

Maggie Gyllenhaal, the breakout star of 2002’s “Secretary,” got to explore her full range with six roles in 2006, including “Stranger Than Fiction,” “World Trade Center,” “The Great New Wonderful,” “Trust the Man,” and a voice part in “Monster House.”

And her star turn in the gritty low-budget film “Sherrybaby” — about a woman who returns home after serving time in prison — has garnered raves, awards from international film festivals and a Golden Globe nomination.

To top it off, she and her fiancé, actor Peter Sarsgaard, welcomed their baby girl, Ramona, three months ago.

A year of media obligations wound down with tea at a Hollywood restaurant just before the holidays, as Gyllenhaal discussed “Sherrybaby,” sex in the movies and one decidedly unwelcome side effect of childbirth.

What first attracted you to “Sherrybaby”?

The script was just extraordinarily good. It was written the way people actually behave, and I think that’s really unusual. What really appealed to me about it when I read it — and I do think I pushed this further than [director] Laurie [Collyer] had originally anticipated — I think that Sherry is in such dire straits that she doesn’t have the luxury of allowing herself to feel any kind of pain or anger. Read the rest of this entry »

Borders in Hollywood is pleased to host Maggie Gyllenhaal on January 24th as she signs copies of the new DVD Sherrybaby from 6-8 PM.

The store is located at 1501 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA 90028 / Phone: 323.463.8519

Thanks to Riikka for letting me know and if you meet Maggie don’t forget to tell her Maggie-Gyllenhaal.net sent you!

BIG thanks to Mariana for sending us in a video from E! News of Maggie’s Golden Globe nomination for Sherrybaby [December 14th]. She says she’s thrilled about the nomination, and Ramona is a good sleeper, but she’s used to getting up early with her - how cute!

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Congratulations to Miss Maggie Gyllenhaal, who has been nominated for a Golden Globe for her powerful performance in Sherrybaby!

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Kate Winslet spoke to the UK’s Metro about the Best Actress nominations and mentioned Maggie as well.

She also paid tribute to Penelope Cruz and Maggie Gyllenhaal, a personal friend who she spoke to this morning after the nominations were announced.

“She’s so happy, and so she bloody should be.”

Congratulations to Maggie who was nominated for a Satellite Award - Best Actress for her work in Sherrybaby. She joins other nominees such as Penelope Cruz, Helen Mirren, Gretchen Moll and Dame Judy Dench.

AP reports: Maggie Gyllenhaal won the best actress award for her performance in “Sherrybaby” at the 17th annual Stockholm International Film Festival this weekend. “Sherrybaby,” directed by Laurie Collyer, was named best picture. Collyer won the Bronze Horse award for “a pure and heartbreaking work about survival and dignity,” the festival jury said Sunday.

The film follows a young woman recently released from prison who tries to reconnect with her young daughter while confronting her old life and drug abuse. “It takes you on a desperate quest for love, through a landscape of struggle, guilt and broken dreams which at times is hard to watch yet impossible to forget,” the jury said.

The festival, which ended Sunday, showcased 170 films from nearly 40 countries. Visit the official Stockholm International Film Festival.

Thanks to Herman & Marie for sending this exciting news in!