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Jake Gyllenhaal on Working With Brother-in-Law Peter Sarsgaard in 'Presumed Innocent' (Exclusive)

Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about what it was like to work with his brother-in-law, Peter Sarsgaard, on 'Presumed Innocent.'

Talking with ET from the world premiere of his new Apple TV+ series, Presumed Innocent, on Sunday, the 43-year-old Road House actor said that as an executive producer on the show, he and his fellow EPs -- including J.J. Abrams and David E. Kelley-- had hoped to get Sarsgaard on board early on. The series -- an adaptation of Scott Turow's bestselling 1986 novel -- sees Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor accused of murdering a colleague. Gyllenhaal shared that it was the never-ending litany of questions and twists and turns that first pulled him in and made him want to not only produce the limited series, but star in it as well.

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