Maggie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Liv Tyler are all on the cover of USA Weekend to celebrate their roles in the upcoming super hero movies. You can read the article here and view some exclusive photos! Enjoy!

As stated before (we were hacked AGAIN! grrr!) Maggie is on the cover of the May issue of Interview magazine! Here are the scans thanks to Stef!

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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The Brooklyn Paper posted this on there site about Maggie - click over there to see photos of her on the day!

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We asked her to hit us with her best shot — and, boy, did she ever.

“This is terrible!” said movie star Maggie Gyllenhaal last week when a Brooklyn Paper reporter handed her a copy of a highly controversial front page our newpaper.

The Paper spawned a hullabaloo last year when it ran a racy photo from the 2002 film, “Secretary,” that featured a naked Gyllenhaal covered only slightly with a delicately placed fur shawl. The accompanying story was about Gyllenhaal and fiancé Peter Sarsgaard buying a townhouse in Park Slope. It ran with the headline “Hello Neighbor!”

The story generated weeks’ worth of antagonistic letters to the editor, but never a response from the starlet herself — until this week, when The Brooklyn Paper caught up with her at a public school fundraising event.

“I hate that photo,” Gyllenhaal exclaimed when we presented her with a copy of the issue. “This is terrible!” [The photo had been supplied by the movie company.]

Then Gyllenhaal went back to serving lemonade and cookies at the charity event in Cobble Hill.

Before ending the interview, Gyllenhaal told The Paper that she is loving life in Park Slope now that she and Sarsgaard have finally moved in to the Sterling Place brownstone they bought last year.

“We’re crazy about Park Slope,” Gyllenhaal said. “But we’re new to the neighborhood, so we’re still figuring everything out.” Read the rest of this entry »

From her award-winning turn as a shy self-harmer turned provocateur in Secretary to her recent role as a recovering junkie in SherryBaby, Maggie Gyllenhaal has long been the poster girl for disenchanted heroines, wowing the critics and attracting a legion of fans.

As she sits coyly twisting her hair in a plush penthouse, just blocks away from where she resides in downtown New York with her actor partner and new baby Ramona, the pretty actress freely admits that her extra-curricular credentials are in pretty good shape too.

But even as model for some of the world’s top fashion houses, sister to one of Hollywood’s hottest actors and with a slew of awards to her name, it is her role as Rachel Dawe’s in Batman: The Dark Knight that has whetted the appetite of fans and critics alike, paving the way for maintream superstardom.

If Gyllenhaal has any qualms about the transition, she shows little sign of it. Nor does she show any concern about picking up the reigns from one half of star-studded couple Tom-Kat. “I’m not walking into Katie’s [Holmes] performance,” she explains. “I’m thinking of it as an opportunity to play somebody who’s alive and smart. Chris [Nolan, the director] asked me to do this because he wanted me, not because he wants some generic lady in a dress.”

Continues the actress: “The part came up and something about it just appealled to me. It was just well written and fun. And the opportunity to work with director Christopher Nolan and an actor like Christian Bale was just to good to pass up.” Read the rest of this entry »

The co-founder of Agent Provocateur, Serena Rees, Britain’s most famous lingerie company talks the The Telegraph about there new ad campaign:

There’s never been a hint of “Hello Boys” in the marketing, which the latest campaign, featuring the quirkily alluring Maggie Gyllenhaal, star of Secretary, demonstrates beautifully. The star, trussed up in suspenders and basques plays a kind of lingerie tutor in the ads.

“Maggie is not an obvious sex symbol and she has a particular quality that lends itself to the ‘mistress’ role,” says Rees. “She is a strong, intelligent and beautiful woman. She is confident and in charge of her own sexuality, and this makes her appealing to both men and women.”

Rees, though tall and slender, likes to promote models of all shapes and sizes, but says that advertising watchdogs are not always helpful. “We like to show curvy bodies. Annoyingly, we are often censored when we try to advertise our lingerie on fuller-figured girls.”

Earlier this year, a poster featuring a well-endowed model that was destined for a London Underground station had to be airbrushed before it was deemed acceptable.

“We had to reduce a woman’s bust size significantly. It is a pity. The fashion industry is often met with criticism for promoting size-zero models, yet when we try to promote our products on buxom beauties we are told to alter their body shapes to make them less provocative… It’s a no-win situation.”

You can read the full article at The Telegraph

Hollywood couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard put their relationship to the test to shoot new movie “High Falls” because they had to be horrible to one another. The engaged couple, who recently celebrated the birth of baby daughter Ramona, really disliked each other’s character on the set of the Sundance Film Festival-bound short film, in which they play a husband and wife.

Gyllenhaal explains, “It was actually pretty horrible, to be honest. He was playing a big jerk and it was hard for me to be around him when all day long. We were in a terrible relationship in the movie, and it was really sad to have to pretend to be in that relationship for four days.

“I love his acting and I would love to make many movies with him but I want to make sure that the making of the movie will be good for us, because I’m not sure that the making of High Falls was good for us.”

From The World Entertainment News Network

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 »

[Maggie’s first interview about the birth of Ramona!]

Ramona Sarsgaard is already taking to the press. Well, make that yelling. When new mom Maggie Gyllenhaal tries to do a phone interview for her new film “Stranger Than Fiction,” her infant daughter (with actor Peter Sarsgaard) decides to get very dramatic.

Amid loud wails, Gyllenhaal excuses herself to give Ramona a pat and a burp.

“Peter, come in here. I’m doing an interview,” Gyllenhaal says, like any other working mom who needs an extra set of hands and a new shoulder to spit up on.

“Everything about motherhood surprises me,” she says. “It’s even surprising that I’m not that tired. We’re really doing great.”

1. Tell us a few of your memories of shooting “Stranger Than Fiction” in Chicago. We’re hearing rumors that it wasn’t all good.

I was so excited because I had workshopped a play there years ago and I love your city. When I got to Chicago to shoot “Stranger Than Fiction,” I was consumed by work but looking forward to spending my time off just exploring the city. Then I got the flu! I was sick my entire five days off and in bed. You know what? People were so nice to me. One day when I was really sick, I dragged myself out of bed to go get some medicine at a corner drugstore. The minute I walked downstairs, people from the hotel said, “We’ll send someone. Go back to sleep.” I guess I looked pretty awful. The bad news is I really wanted to see the Frank Lloyd Wright houses and do a boat tour of the city. I know it sounds touristy, but I love that kind of thing. Read the rest of this entry »