Maggie Gyllenhaal surprised her brother Jake on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert with a hidden note declaring, “You’re a beast,” a longtime tradition they’ve kept for big moments.
During Jake’s Tuesday night appearance, Colbert surprised him with the note, sharing that at the time Maggie wouldn’t explain what it was about, but that she was leaving it in the chair for her brother to find. Cameras flashed back to Maggie’s appearance on Colbert, where she says, “I have a note for him because he’s going to be here tomorrow. And I thought maybe I’d just stick it in the sofa.”
Colbert tells Jake that no one removed the note, “and it should still be there.” Jake, looking surprised, immediately looked for the note, with Colbert guiding him to where she buried it in the chair. “I don’t know what she left you,” Cobert insisted.
An audience member is heard shouting: “Read it out loud!”
Jake looked confused, joking that there was nothing written on the paper, but came clean, sharing that there were two messages. “Is it written in blood?” Colbert quipped.
“I mean kinda,” Jake joked back, reading the note: “You’re a beast.” Jake then clarified that Maggie starred in a show on Broadway that was an “amazing experience for her” but at the time she was “going through things.” So Jake went into her dressing room before opening night before reviews and wrote, “You’re a beast. And then we write it on each other’s mirrors. She’s written it on my mirror every opening night.”
He continued: “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 life, 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 of yourself.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s movie The Bride! premieres in theaters on Friday.
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