Jake Gyllenhaal Destroyed This Woman’s Home
Jake Gyllenhaal Destroyed This Woman’s Home
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When the residents of Pebble Lane in Roslyn Heights, Nassau County, saw construction workers on Sharon Yarom Gucker’s front lawn, they assumed she was remodeling.
Her nosy neighbors were partly right: A crew was adding a large section onto Gucker’s sleek home. But she and her three kids would not be living in it. In fact, the addition would be destroyed in just two months—by Jake Gyllenhaal.
In the film “Demolition,” out Friday, the actor plays an investment banker whose wife dies in a car accident. As a result, he goes mad and demolishes whole parts of his life, including his suburban dwelling.
Gucker’s home had been used for commercials before, but this is its first appearance in a film and the only time a director has asked to smash it to pieces.
“It’s a whole mix of emotions, especially when they’re destroying things,” says the 47-year-old agent. “Like, ‘I hope he only breaks the part that they built.’”
The wrecking wasn’t limited to the outside. Director Jean-Marc Vallée (“Dallas Buyers Club”) also wanted to ruin Gucker’s kitchen.
“At first, they thought they would be able to replace part of my kitchen enough to destroy it. But the director wanted it totally destroyed,” she says.
Instead, the production built a whole new kitchen in her living room for Gyllenhaal to lay waste to with a sledgehammer.
The entire shoot took two months—a month beyond what was scheduled—and Gucker and her children were required to live in a nearby hotel during construction and filming. They still visited the set, though, where the boys fell in love with Gyllenhaal’s puggle, Boo Radley.
During filming, Gucker was in the process of selling the home—and she says that the A-list movie turned out to be a major draw for prospective buyers.
“I told them, ‘Jake Gyllenhaal was in this shower!’ ”
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