Maggie Gyllenhaal hid secret note for Jake in Stephen Colbert's sofa
Maggie Gyllenhaal hid a sweet note for brother Jake in the sofa of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Maggie Gyllenhaal left a sweet note for brother Jake in Stephen Colbert's couch.
The 48-year-old director - who cast her famous sibling for the first time in her new movie The Bride! - appeared on The Late Show the night before Jake did this week, and she snuck a note for him down the arm of the sofa at the Ed Sullivan Theater.
Host Colbert told Jake: "Your sister left you a present."
He admitted Maggie "would not explain something to us", but left a cryptic note on a piece of paper, which she stuck in the sofa".
Colbert insisted he and his crew "didn't take it out", adding: "It should still be there if you dig down, I think it's on this side."
The 45-year-old actor retrieved the note, and read: "You're a beast."
Jake revealed that the in-joke of sorts came from a Broadway show Maggie was involved in.
He recalled: "It was an amazing experience for her and also she was going through things.
"I went into her dressing room and for opening night — [during] of the previews maybe — and I just wrote, 'You're a beast.'
"We write it on each other's mirrors, she's written it on my mirror, every opening night."
Jake revealed that the idea of community and supporting each other was part of his sister's inspiration behind The Bride!
He said: "I think that's part of what her movie is about.
"And I think it's also about all of us seeing that in each other and communally going out together, experiencing like you would here or like you would at a rock concert or why you'd go to the movies, to go experience something together and feel that part yourself."
He teased: "That's also something she told me to say that she forgot to tell everybody last night."
Jake and Maggie haven't worked together since they both appeared in 2001's Donnie Darko, and she admitted there were no issues with her sibling on set.
She told PEOPLE magazine: "Honestly, I wish I could give you some more drama, but it was just such a pleasure.
"I mean, you see in the movie, he's kind of more of a cameo. So when he would come to set dressed in his tuxedo, so funny. I mean, there's some Ronnie Reid humor, but just on set, just being with him, he would make me laugh so hard.
"But watching him on screen too, watching him on the monitors, I would sometimes be laughing so hard I would be crying. It was just such a pleasure working with him."
