Date 23/03/2017 - News People
Jake Gyllenhaal "often" thought of his late grandfather when making his new movie 'Life'. The 36-year-old actor stars in the sci-fi thriller as Dr. David Jordan and admitted he drew inspiration from his surgeon granddad Samuel Achs,. Achs was a major influence on his life when he was filming his role. Jake stars alongside Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson in 'Life', in which the trio play a team of scientists aboard the International Space Station who battle an aggressive extraterrestrial organism from Mars. Speaking to Australia's Herald Sun newspaper, Gyllenhaal shared of his grandfather: "Though it's not a full homage, there's a piece of him in there. I thought of him often while I was making this movie."
