Jake Gyllenhaal reads note sister Maggie tucked into “Late Show” couch the night before
Jake Gyllenhaal reads note sister Maggie tucked into “Late Show” couch the night before
Raechal ShewfeltWed, March 4, 2026 at 6:13 AM UTC
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Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal in 2021Credit: Steve Granitz/FilmMagic
No sibling rivalry here. Maggie Gyllenhaal left a sweet note for her little brother Jake Gyllenhaal when she visited The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday.
When Jake sat down on Tuesday's show, Colbert explained that Maggie had left the missive, but she wouldn't explain what it meant. She had simply said that she was tucking her note into the chair.
"I don't know what she left you," Colbert said.
"'You're a beast' is what she wrote," Jake said, before confirming that the phrase, held meaning for the siblings.
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"My sister did a show on Broadway that she was acting in," Jake said, "and it was an amazing experience for her, but also she was going through things. I went into her dressing room before opening night — one of the previews maybe — and I just wrote, 'You're a beast.'"
As if that weren't sweet enough, Jake said that they then made a habit of writing the simple sentence on each another's mirrors.
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"She's written it on my mirror every opening night," he explained to Colbert and his audience.
Interestingly, Jake said he thought the new movie, The Bride!, that his sister directed is connected to the message.
"I think that's part of what her movie is about," Jake said. "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."
Jake then quipped, "That's also something she told me to say, that she forgot to tell everybody last night," to big laughs.
Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal for 'Donnie Darko' at the 2001 Sundance Film FestivalCredit: J. Vespa/WireImage
Colbert then said Maggie was "directing this interview right now."
The famous brother and sister, now 45 and 48, have acted since they were children in the early '90s. Both have since been nominated for acting Oscars — him for the 2005 movie Brokeback Mountain and Maggie for 2009's Crazy Heart. She also received a nod for co-writing 2021 movie The Lost Daughter, which she also directed.
Her latest project is The Bride!, a horror-romance starring Christian Bale as Frankenstein and Hamnet's Jessie Buckley as the titular bride. The movie arrives in theaters Friday.
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