Eminem and Jake Gyllenhaal make surprise visit to Detroit screening of Southpaw
Eminem and Jake Gyllenhaal surprised a group of moviegoers in the rapper's native Detroit before an advance screening of their film Southpaw on Sunday (19Jul15).
The Brokeback Mountain actor stars in the boxing film while the rapper produced and curated the soundtrack for the movie, so to help promote the project the duo visited a cinema in Michigan to introduce the film to unsuspecting fans.
Eminem, who was originally tapped to play the lead boxer character
but was eventually replaced by Gyllenhaal, spoke highly of the
film
He told the crowd, "From the minute I saw this script I really felt
like this movie had the potential to be something special. We hope
that you all do, too. Jake did an incredible job... Everybody in
the movie is great, in my opinion. I'm super excited to be a part
of it."
Gyllenhaal added, "The album is sick, too. The training montage is
insane because of his music. It's an honor to have him even be a
little part of the movie, but the fact he gave so much of it, we
all gave our hearts to it. It's an honor to be even next to
him."
Both the soundtrack and film, directed by Training Day filmmaker
Antoine Fuqua, are due out on 24 July (15).