Jake Gyllenhaal Is Suspected of Murdering His Mistress in Presumed Harmless Trailer

Jake Gyllenhaal is a person in love — and a person on trial.

Within the first teaser for Presumed Harmless, a brand new Apple TV+ restricted sequence, Gyllenhaal stars as chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, who finds himself on the middle of a homicide investigation when his mistress is discovered useless.

“Love isn’t what individuals inform you that it’s. In my expertise, it’s simply one thing that grows, till in the future, you simply end up needing somebody,” Gyllenhaal’s Rusty says within the teaser as clips are proven of him together with his spouse and youngsters.

“That’s the way it was with Carolyn,” Rusty admits, as a sequence of passionate scenes flash, exhibiting him in mattress with one other girl. “She woke one thing up inside me.”

“I can’t cease occupied with her,” he says of Carolyn, his mistress, earlier than scenes flash of police vehicles and against the law scene.

Gyllenhaal’s character is then requested, “Had been you conscious that Carolyn was murdered?”

The restricted sequence premiering on June 12, primarily based on The New York Occasions bestselling novel by Scott Turow, “takes viewers on a gripping journey by means of the horrific homicide that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Lawyer’s workplace when certainly one of its personal is suspected of the crime,” in keeping with an official synopsis.

“The sequence explores obsession, intercourse, politics, and the facility and limits of affection, because the accused fights to carry his household and marriage collectively.”

Together with Gyllenhaal, 43, Presumed Harmless stars Ruth Negga as Gyllenhaal’s spouse, Renate Reinsve as his mistress, together with Invoice Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard and O-T Fagbenle.

The 1987 novel was beforehand tailored into a movie in 1990 starring Harrison Ford within the lead function of Rusty Sabich alongside Bonnie Bedelia and Greta Scacchi.

Gyllenhaal was most not too long ago seen on the display in Highway Home, a remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie that noticed him tackle the function of a former UFC fighter who turns into a bar bouncer at a roadhouse within the Florida Keys following the tip of his preventing profession.

He instructed PEOPLE on the movie’s SXSW premiere in March that it took a “village” for him to bodily put together for the function, as he skilled for “an hour and a half day-after-day earlier than work.”

“I will inform you that being the place I’m — 10 years in the past I made Southpaw, which is one other combat film, and I used to be in a distinct place,” he mentioned. “My physique was, I knew that I wanted assist with vitamin and I knew I wanted to maintain myself secure from damage and I wanted to additionally have the ability to have the aesthetics of the entire function.”

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The primary two episodes of Presumed Harmless premiere on Apple TV+ on June 12. The next six episodes will air weekly on Wednesdays by means of July 24.