The
Cell stars
Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'onofrio, and Jake. Lopez
plays a child psychologist(!) assigned the task of virtually
entering the mind of a serial killer (D'onofrio) in order to
discover the whereabouts of his latest kidnap victim. Vaughn
is the FBI agent who partners with Lopez in this bizarre journey.
And Jake is Vaughn's partner, Gordon Ramsey, who apparently
is more buttoned-up and cynical than Vaughn about the whole
virtual mindtrip thing. (Go figure!)
Here's
Jake's (very flattering) bio, according to the official
site for The Cell - gotta love the line in italics!
Weber
(FBI Agent Gordon Ramsey) is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's
hottest young leading men. He was recently seen in Mike
Newell's Pushing Tin, and in the independent feature Cherry
co-starring with Shalom Harlow. Last year he co-starred in
Martin Brest's Meet Joe Black, opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins
and Brad Pitt, and in Marshall Herskovitz's Dangerous Beauty.
Weber's other film credits include Into My Heart in which
he co-stars with Claire Forlani, The Pelican Brief directed
by Alan J. Pakula, and Sidney Lumet's A Stranger Among Us.
Jake made his feature film debut in Oliver Stone's Born on
the Fourth of July.
A
theater actor of wide experience, Weber most recently starred
in "The Rivals" directed by Roger Reese [sic] at the
Williamstown Theatre Festival. Jake has also appeared on Broadway
in "A Small Family Business." Off-Broadway, he starred in
two plays by John Patrick Shanley, "Missing/Kissing" and "The
Big Funk." Other Off-Broadway credits include "The Radical
Mystique," "Mad Forest" (nominated for an Obie Award), the
New York Shakespeare Festival production of "As You Like It"
(for which he won a 1992 Calloway Award), "Road," "Othello,"
and "Richard III." Weber's television credits include a starring
role in the Emmy-nominated "What the Deaf Man Heard" for CBS-TV's
Hallmark Hall of Fame. He was also a series regular on "American
Gothic" and "Something Wilder." Weber attended Middlebury
College where he majored in English Literature and Political
Science, graduating cum laude with a B.A. He attended the
Julliard School and also studied at Russia's famed Moscow
Theater.
And
what does The Cell's site say about Gordon Ramsey?
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Jake
Weber,
who co-starred alongside Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, and
can soon be seen in U-571 starring Matthew McConnaughey,
plays FBI agent Gordon Ramsey, Peter Novak's professional,
well-groomed partner who closely follows the Bureau party
line. Tarsem met Jake in New York and thought he was just
right for the role of Vince Vaughn's partner. |
"I
liked the director's vision, his sense of humor, imaginative
style, and there were also some fine actors in the film,"
says Weber about what impressed him about the project. He
was also intrigued with playing a law enforcement officer
for the first time in his career. "Vince's character and mind
[sic] are cut from very different cloths as people,
but as partners we have a pretty close relationship. And hopefully
there's a little bit of comedy in the relationship as well
as the tension that's built into working very closely with
someone." "Jake's character is very much a fellow who is just
not sure that what they're doing makes sense," says Julio
Caro. "He wants to solve the crime and is as committed as
Novak, but he thinks he going too far." "My character's sort
of there to help keep Novak in line, to baby-sit him," adds
Weber.
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