"Brokeback Mountain" Lassos Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - There were lots of things to celebrate at the "Brokeback Mountain" premiere in Los Angeles on Tuesday night, and the movie hasn't even opened yet.
Earlier in the day the prestigious Independent Spirit Award nominations were announced, and the film snagged four key nominations, for Best Feature, Director (Ang Lee), Male Lead (Heath Ledger) and Supporting Female (Michelle Williams).
Exciting news, but not as meaningful as the reason that Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams were not on the red carpet at Westwood's Mann National Theater; the couple met last year on the set of "Brokeback" and last month welcomed their first child, a little girl named Matilda.
So the new parents celebrated at home in Brooklyn, but most of the other key players were on hand in L.A., dressed to kill and happy to smile for the cameras.
All eyes were on dapper (and bearded) Jake Gyllenhaal, who stars opposite Ledger in the intense story of the secret love between two cowboys, set during the Sixties against the stunning landscape of Wyoming's craggy mountains.
Naturally, the question of doing love scenes with another man is an inevitable one, one that Gyllenhaal addressed earlier during an interview session with reporters.
"We talked about it, we joked about it, we would poke fun while we were doing it," Gyllenhaal revealed.
"There are so many complications to this and describing exactly what it is, I mean for Heath and I, I think it's a friendship and a trust, that as actors we were going to go someplace that we both were afraid of and we knew that we were. We just trusted each other.”
“We just had to trust each other, so there was this really interesting thing - and I don't know what it is for us - probably, just being straight, we didn't have that complication that you usually have when you are working with someone who is a female!"
Gyllenhaal posed with director Ang Lee, and gave him credit for making the movie such a believable adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story. "Ang says a really beautiful thing about the film. He says, 'I think Brokeback Mountain is a place where the two of them get to go, where nobody is judging them, and nobody is worried about pretending to be something they are not."
Annie Proulx gave the adaptation her blessing by joining Lee and Gyllenhaal at the premiere, as did some of the film's other stars, including Randy Quaid, Kate Mara, and Linda Cardellini, who looked particularly fetching in a strapless red satin party dress.
Also on hand for the fun were Christian Slater, Sean Young, Daviegh Chase and Jake's sister Maggie, who clung to her boyfriend Peter Sarsgaard, who also happens to be Jake's co-star in "Jarhead," currently in theaters.
"Brokeback Mountain" opens in limited release on December 9.
from Dominican Today