With director Michael Bay’s best film in years, Ambulance, now playing in theaters, I recently landed an extended interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, Eiza González, and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II which covered a lot of different subjects. In the first part of the interview (which you can watch here), they talked about what it was like working with Bay, how quickly he changes what they’re filming, shooting the intense surgery scene in the ambulance, what it was like working with the drones, and a lot more on the making of Ambulance.
In today’s installment, Gyllenhaal, González, and Abdul-Mateen II talked about the most they’ve ever prepared for a role, the hardest take they’ve done on a project, and revealed the first thing you should watch if you’ve never seen their work.
Ambulance is based on a 2005 Dutch film of the same name made by Laurits Munch-Petersen and Lars Andreas Pedersen. Bay’s film, which was written by Chris Fedak, follows Will Sharp (Abdul-Mateel II), a retired veteran who needs money for his wife’s surgery. He goes to his adoptive brother Danny (Gyllenhaal), who involves him in a heist that quickly goes wrong, leaving them outrunning the cops in an ambulance with an LAPD officer in critical condition and an EMT (González) as hostages.
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