Maggie Gyllenhaal opens up about changing relationship with brother Jake

"We've never been estranged, but we've never been as close as we are now. We're finally, maybe in the last five years, more and more and more, even each day, really interacting, which is hard for people to do."

"In general, I am very interested in envy. What creates it? I think it's usually feeling starving, like you don't have enough. But there absolutely is enough to go around. But I don't think I knew that at first, when I was young and Jake was a movie star right away."

"I waited until I was absolutely sure that asking him to do this part was the right thing to do. I remember asking him and tearing up alone in this hotel room I was in, because it meant so much to me. It meant so much for me to interact with him."

Maggie Gyllenhaal, 48, discussed her evolving relationship with her brother Jake while promoting her directorial film The Bride!. The siblings, both child actors born to director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Achs, were never estranged but have grown considerably closer in recent years. Maggie acknowledged experiencing envy when Jake achieved stardom first, though she later recognized abundance exists for both. When casting Jake in The Bride!, Maggie felt emotional about the opportunity to collaborate, viewing it as a vulnerable step toward genuine family connection. The film features Jake in a supporting role alongside Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale.

Read at The Independent