Jake Gyllenhaal on filming the “I wish I knew how to quit you” scene in “Brokeback Mountain”

Jake Gyllenhaal discussed his various film roles in an interview with GQ. Among the scenes he covers is the iconic “I wish I knew I knew how to quit you” scene in Brokeback Mountain with Heath Ledger: Gyllenhaal talked about the power of rehearsal, remembering that they had rehearsed the “I can’t quit you” scene in the same bucolic valley months earlier, when there was snow on the ground, and what gave the scene some of its resonance was the memory of that earlier rehearsal, because it had introduced a time frame into the actors’ knowledge of it and each other.”