Gyllenhaal speaks out on his 'ridiculous' name

[McMakisha]

Ye-len-ho-la-hay. Ye-len-hu-la-nen.

[McMakisha]

he just CAN'T spell.

[PirateMrTyler]

Professional troll!

[Shonaripa]

Jake almost got the role for Batman instead of Christian Bale. That would mean he would've fought against Heath as Joker. That would be like continuation of brokeback mountain where two extreme homosexual sapiens go through a rough breakup in the streets of gotham

[fukitall80]

Yillenhoothafuckwouldhaveaname­likethat!

[DarkdwarfSoaD]

Wow... Either he's fuckig stupid, or he's trolling...

[beeblebronx]

If you listen to the end of the video, Jake doesn't seem to be sure about the proper prononciation either. There are two versions not identical. One way or another, really a funny language. :)

[lauraprohibity]

am I the only one who thinks that Jake Gyllenhaal looks like Inspector Gadget??

[musikmaniac1]

yillenhoolahay???

[timtam18697]

Yillenhoolahay :D lmao

[soho6802]

Translation of Gyllenhaal: Gyllen = gold haal =entrance, golden entrance! It's a swedish "knights" name from around 1650...

[GA1313E]

@soho6802 are you sure haal is entreance, in traditional swedish spelling double a would be å and hål means hole...

[TheEmsann]

I dont think you pronounce that way in swedish.

Becouse its a swedish surname,i dont think any swede has that surname.

Gyllenhaal is a swedish surname from a swedish queen they got for like 400 years agoo.

I think Jake Gyllenhaal is related with Gustaf Vasa,swedens first king!

[Lovisa116]

That's trolling at it's finest.

[josefineforss]

I'm so proud he has Swedish ancestors :')

Although i have no idea how to pronounce his name..

[InfectedByZanza]

Brokeback Mountain much ?

[12345678909269]

I'm Swedish and i pronounce his name "Jyllenhahl" lol. Not a common Swedish name though

[ariellehaha]

That was fucking weird

[MoeThaCrazyBartender]

shouldn't it be Gyllen.. with a g like in "gold"?

[scotty0107]

the who la hey part... i did not expect that. hahah.

[scotty0107]

well thats new.

[460cc]

wow, pronunciation manual was spot on

[Cassie2908]

I've always said Gillenhall and I will keep saying Gillenhall 8l

Also, Tintin, you're looking fine~

[MrAndylil]

relatively old swedish nobility name, introduced to the house of nobility in Stockholm in 1672. One side of the family emigrated to the US in the 1860´s like many other swedes.The prefix ´gyllen-´means golden and is typical of the baroque period with its taste for impressive names, (like golden swan, golden hawk, -creutz, -borg, etc.) The meaning of -haal is uncertain, possibly a variety of -hall. Family originates from the West coast of Sweden.

[molloyaoife]

its like jillen hall.thats how to pronounce it.lov gemma

[AnimatedELIOLI]

This is so funny! wait..is that Tintin?

[wepper5]

His grandgrandgrand-etc father's brother died at the "Battle of Helsingborg" as a swedish cavalry captain :D

[PanndaKat]

This is hilarious.

[MercuryMontag]

The interviewer looks just like Tintin!

[Roxxi33]

oh youtube... a 30 second ad on a 90 second video...

[vad7771]

gyllenhoolahejlahuhladolhelnho­lakoldalola thats how it is.. yes

[MrAndylil]

gyllen is golden in swedish-haal i am not sure, i think it is a mix of dutch and swedish, probably dating from the 1600s when many dutch came to stockholm and sweden as merchants, many working in the mining business exporting weapons and iron to europe.

[ss111111yt]

@MrAndylil Nonsense

[hommedterre]

Once in a while something sensible like your statement can be found in youtube. Bless you.

[ezdraelon]

My missus is obessed with him

[H1r9m3n4]

The actual correct (Swedish) pronounciation of the final syllable of Gyllenhaal "-haal" is with an "a", as in the English word "far". The spelling on the coat-of-arms coppershield in the House of Nobles in Stockholm is "Gyllenhahl". But the pronounciation is the same. The "h" is there to indicate the drawn out vowel "a". Herman G.

[youngdru]

saw homeboy on the 2train in NYC omw to work yesterday

[malmberg69]

20 people couldn't say yillen who la hey

[grnlvr8]

im bout to cry right now because he is so fine:(

[djjsinclair]

@grnlvr8 dumb bitch 

[grnlvr8]

@djjsinclair dont hate appreciate

[JinRenegade]

Atleast he isn't British and has his last name as "Pratt", when there's another word "prat" which is the British equivilant of "major dumbass".

[YaraElGendyy]

That was an extremely weird way how he pronounced it, we already have enough trouble trying to pronounce it as we see it....xD

[shermich90]

i get the part 'yillen' but where does 'who la hey' go to? :)) what nationality last name is this?

[gregtube88]

@shermich90

Uh, you think they're joking/exaggerating, perhaps?

[live22laugh22]

I always pronounce it Jillen Hall and that's how i've heard it pronounced by everyone who says it around me.

[Ilcantodellanima]

@live22laugh22 well,because English tend to anglicize surnames's pronounciation like Dunst or in this case Gyllenhaal.

[mickthewack]

The name is a old Swedish noble house name but I can't for the life of me understand why they pronounce it with more sounds then there is letters. Me reading this, obviously knowing Swedish as I live here, would sound like - Yjillenhaal. Where the J is soft and sounds like Y. The name by direct translation is basically Golden Hall.

[Onyxaxe]

@mickthewack So this is a joke right?. It's Gyllenhaal with the G sounding like a Y?.

[mickthewack]

@Onyxaxe

Ah ya, thats what I meant. Not J...got confused :(

[Onyxaxe]

@mickthewack No biggie. At least I won't go around calling everyone else who la hey :)

[heartandsoulful]

@mickthewack Oh! I thought it was Dutch :D And i'm even Danish and knows lot of Swedish names :) lol

[aflow66]

He's joking ?

[ArTzxDc]

@aflow66 no its real

[EjvindDark]

YILLEN HOO LE HAY.

[theadventuresofmary]

is he taking the piss?!!? yillen-hoolahay :L

[agatoooon]

jelenhulahej, pozdro dla Polski

[anotherdramaqueen95]

was he serious with the pronounciation of his name?

[Shaqquee]

easy way to pronounce it, 'gay land who the hell'

[Rockyroopam]

hahaha when the interview first asked how to pronouce it, I thought Jake was joking :P I bet the interviewer was trying his best not to laugh.

[Ambkn1]

is he serious? Is that really how his last name is pronounced? lol

[brouw87]

I'm danish and the way he pronounces it, is not danish. Not a word I know anyway...!

[123vitaminD]

He's kidding!! Of course its not pronounced like that.

Gyllenhuleehay...haha gotta love it!

[Diedrich92]

Isn't it a swedish name? That pronounciation sounds nothing like swedish. More like icelandic or some crap like that. gykllehulehö

[LovelyLawliet93]

I think he's just making fun of the way Swedes talk.. It couldn't possibly be pronounced that way xD

[jobbe97]

@LovelyLawliet93 it's not swedih it must be norwegian or danish but it's not swedish i can tell you that. :)

[ThatBassClarinetist]

lol it's pronounce gyllenhullenhalle he said that...

[Choppaaah]

yillen who la hey

[DarKOldemoR]

That can't be the right way to say that name.

[tomtegirl]

@DarKOldemoR it isn't! :P

[Hencytjo]

Gyllen = Golden

Haal can be hall (hall) or hål (hole) or hal (slippy)

[falcoTNT]

spell of matthew mccoughaney

[falcoTNT]

G-y-double l-e-n-a-h-l

[mrtalkative91]

"ive asked all the other actors to spell it and they had trouble as well" ...no? the girl got it right and the bald guy missed 1 L

[freqeist]

he is taking the piss people its not pronounced like that, think about it.. how many times does he get asked how to pronounce it? that is why im sure.

[freqeist]

its Americanised Swedish

[shadowkid1993]

a horrible accent ? what about your horrible name ? =/ maybe that has something to do with it.

[thatrandomguyirving9]

No wonder Taylor Swift didn't write a song about him... >_>

[Ceausistul]

Yillenhoolahay? Really? He was just kidding. That's not how you pronounce it. Gyllenhål or Gyllenhaal it is pronounces Yillenhawl/Yillenhohl, of course with that Swedish/Norwegian pitch accent. I can speak Norwegian and some Swedish (Norwegian and Swedish are almost the same language)

[irvykinneas]

JAKE HOT PIECE OF ASS sounds better

[sofiamore]

@irvykinneas LOL that made me die laughing

[jennygew91]

she has read the name on the poster of Prince of Persia!! so funny ;)

[veryjellybelly]

haha i like this! he's funny...that's not the proper pronounctiation, he is just messing around hahaha

[lukelikesdudeism]

I love how Jake has to think about how to spell it!

[cheshirecandy]

dude, guys, he's just making fun of people that can't pronounce it :P Klart att han vet sitt eget efternamn!

[samsamesammek]

why is he saying gyllen hulahäl? han måste ha fått det om bakfoten...

[tomtegirl]

haha i'm swedish and even i think it sounds weird.

[mareeye]

Jelenhulehel

[JL3Wind]

the "gyllen" part is kinda pronounced correct, but hulehay?

[Emiilliiaaa]

HHAHAH yillenhoolehay

[wobblypenguins]

i has YELLING HULA then i hit someone they said hEY.

[Fuki385]

Jake Yillenhoolohaleheylaand

[ISuperLoveMovies]

no real Swedish surname is pronounced like that lol

[ISetYourFaceOnFire]

Is his last name really pronounced yillinhoolahey?

[chloesavedlatin]

i know hes an actor and everything, but if i didnt know already how his name was pronounced, i would probably have completely believed him

[mssharpeandthezeros]

what? I'm swedish and I sure as hell do not pronounce gyllenhaal like that!

[anu83]

@mssharpeandthezeros I know... I am from Finland... and I do remeber that much swedish that gyllenhaal doesn´t pronounce like that :D

[MarjanQasemi14]

i con't spell i have to spell check every 5 words!!!!!!!!

[MarjanQasemi14]

lol where is he from anyways???

[iB1random]

nope your wrong its pronounce yillenhoolohaleheylaand a randombruce lee

yup that just happend



[NyxFTW]

I'm still gonna pronounce it Jill-in-hall. That's just ridiculous.

[jjji4ng4]

I still don't understand how he can say his "last name" with such a straight face and not chuckle.

[gothicgurl57]

Is that how you really pronounce his last name?

[saphira280]

that is the most retarted last name i have ever heard. i lol'd so hard when i heard it i fell out of my chair.

[lovemydogs2010]

This was HILARIOUS!!! LOL! :-)

[tintinjokes]

G -y-l-l-e-n-h-aa-l

Bing!

YEEEEEEESSSSS!

[gabrielnorburg]

who knew that he was such a troll :P

[FencingBabe17]

I love how you can see him mentally counting the number of 'L's in his own name.

[GA1313E]

@seanmcloughlin7 according to wikipedia its the name of a swedish noble family, although i am swedish and i have no idea why he is pronouncing it so weird

[LATiNAMAMi369]

@seanmcloughlin7 swedishhh

[cirogalli]

That interviewer pronounced the last name in every possible wrong way.

[shalenaiscool]

@cirogalli it his accent

[CreativeGirl213]

WHAT?!?!

[ImAllFact]

is he trolling us?

[gabrielnorburg]

@ImAllFact yeah he's trolling you, Gyllenhaal is a swedish noble family from which he descends on his fathers side. i speak both swedish and english fluently and i wouldn't pronounce it like that in either language :P

[acamar123]

yilenholahal ^^,

[thankgoditsfarah]

YILLENHOOLAHAY OMG.

[k4duty]

Cool that his roots comes from sweden:)

[Lejonkungen99]

He doesn't pronounce it correctly haha

[MsBerryChan]

This is easy to pronounce for a scandinavian.

[mintgumdropz1]

@MsBerryChan i wonder what nationality jake ( keepin' it simple,dude) is ??

[nippe011]

@MsBerryChan Well I'm danish, and I think it's difficult to pronounce anyway, but you're right, I beleive it's still easier than it is for others :)

[doctorwhogirl77]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm just gonna stick with my "Jill-en-Hall".

Keepin' it simple.

[mintgumdropz1]

@doctorwhogirl77 i agree  :) yill-en-hoo-li-hay !?!?

WTF ??

[ItsTheNinjaNerds]

@TheMrBlakeG hahahahaha x)

[GrandmasterLix]

In and of itself gyllenhaal means nothing in swedish. BUT; if u are a swede and pronounce it in either norse or danish - it literally translates to "GOLDEN HOLE".

Flattering? I dont know. You be the judge! ;)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@GrandmasterLix do you know if he has swedish or danish roots? cause the way he pronounces it , it sounds more danish.

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Wikipedia says he is from noble Swedish family. :)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep ooh, fancy. but it feels like the two 'a's should be an 'å', but then it's prounoced differently. am i completely wrong by saying that?

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie I honestly have no clue as I am not from nordic countries (though I love then).

Anyway, as far as I know, å is read pretty much as 'o' (as slovak wikipedia says at Åland, the Swedish islands between Sweden and Finland) and so are read the 'aa' in his name... So in my opinion it's the same.

I tried it on google translate, and it pronounces is pretty much the same way... We need some real Swede to find out! D:

(just a quick question, you know where is Slovakia? :?)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep yeah i know where slovakia is and i am a swede so that's why this is all so confusing. but if you take the two a's and make an å, it becomes gyllenhål, golden hole. so i don't really know why he's making it danish sounding. hahaha :)

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Ah sorry xD Your channel says you are from USA, that;s why I said we need a Swede xD (and then the question about Slovakia is pointless xD just wanted to see what American would say)

Aha... If so, what is the exact reading of the things you wrote? Because to me it really sounds very similar... and I usually read it with classic long O (pretty much) :?

Also, though I am in love with danish, I have no clue what the differences may be xD

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep yeah, gotta change that, hahaha, xd.

im not good with those but danish sounds like a mix of swedish and norweigian with a big egg in your mouth as the same time you talk. haha.

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Haha, heard that story a few times (from few both Danish ans Swedish people) but they said a potato instead xDD

Also this is one of the places I've heard it at -> satwcomic. com/language-lesson :)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep yeah, egg, potato, sounds the same in your mouth.. hahaha

it's true! it really sounds like they have an egg/potato in their mouth, while we swedes have a bit "cleaner" sounding language, haha

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie if you say so :3 gotta believe things more people say xD

Also what do you think about Slovak language? :3 you ever heard it? :3

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep hahahaha.

yes, i think i've heard it. you use alot of 'r's and 'ch's or am i mixing it up with another language?

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Well no, you are not mixing it up with another language, we really use them pretty often :D Thanks for your opinion :) Also if I can ask, where did you hear slovak? x)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep woo! i live in a country with alot of immigrants from all over so i hear different languages sometimes. and then i think i used some general knowledge of how you speak around slovakia, isn't there a lot of 'ch's and 'r's in those too?

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Aha :D that makes sense :D

well if you mean other states... yes, Ukraine, Poland and Czech also uses them since they are Slavonic languages, Austria is a Germanic language (I'd say similar to yours a bit) and then Hungary... Honestly I have no clue about Hungary :DD

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep yeah, i meant ukraine and those countries. and yes, swedish comes mainly from english, french and german, i think.... haha

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie Correct... I've once seen a comic win danish/norwegian/swedish/finni­sh/icelandic, it's SaTW from humon on deviantart if you know it, where each country has a person representing it... and usually it's in english and that one was in their own languages... and Iread through it understanding around 80% of it :) It wasn't so hard since I know english pretty good, german on some middle level, one year of french and 1 year of danish facebook :D i like all nordic countries~ x3

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep wow, that's awesome! i don't think i'd understand a thing in slovak, haha

[pokestep]

@BlueberryFictionPie well yeah, no way if you don't know any other slavonic language :D

(also thanks for a nice conversation ^^ usually it's not so long and so good here on youtube ^^)

[BlueberryFictionPie]

@pokestep i guess, hahaha.

oh thank you! it was just my pleasure (:

[mantorok09]

@GrandmasterLix Now, not saying wikipedia is anything reputable to go by, but I just typed in Gyllenhaal and it says that the name is actually a noble name descended from Lieutenant Nils Gunnarsson Haal; and, upon being ennobled in 1652, changed his name to Gyllenhaal. Wiki also gives a list of supposed descendants of Gunnarsson Haal, including Jake, his sister Maggie, and their father Stephen.

[Everstars88]

@GrandmasterLix

HAHAH ''gyllene hål''

[Thehost95]

That is a horrible, horrible, horrible accent you have! I couldn't say that with a straight face!

[sing2milo]

HAHAHAHA!!!

[UnsavorySebbe]

Its pronounced like most people pronounce it, like mnentioned it's swedish, and originates from the last name Haal. Double a here is the same as the swedish letter å. så haal is pronounced like the english hall.

[kiikat]

gyllenhaal, ben kingsley, the girl, i don't know her name but they all rock

lol funny clip

[SUnraveling69]

it's pronounced jhyoo-len-awl

[Future123ish]

im swedish but I have no idea how to pronounce his surname

[skaple369]

"Thats a horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE accent you have" ahahahahahh

[NetFredd]

It's an old Swedish noble name and means "golden hall" (spelled Gyllenhall in modern Swedish). He's great, great, great, great, whatever father received it from the Swedish king in the 18th century for being prominent in botany and biology. He told the story himself in a David Letterman interview several years ago. And the pronunciation in nothing like in this clip which sounds like Dutch and not Swedish.

[ss111111yt]

@NetFredd Pure nonsense. An ancestor of his was ennobled Gyllenhaal in 1652 for his military service. And "haal" has nothing to do with any "hall".

[cheshirecandy]

@ss111111yt yeah, I heard it came from the name of his ancestors estate "Hahlegården" (lit. Hahle Esate), why he wasn't dubbed "Gyllenhahle/Gyllenhaale" I don't know though.

[cheshirecandy]

@NetFredd actually I read somewhere that the name was originally "Hahle" (from their estate being named "Hahlegården", lit. Hahle Estate) and during knighthood both the Hahl & the Haal spellings were used. Contrary to what many swedes believe it's not pronounced as the swedish letter å (english word "for") but as a long a! The "gyllen" was in common use when ennobling someone during the 17th century.

But Jake Gyllenhaals pronounciation of his own surname sure sounded more dutch than swedish ;)

[samsamesammek]

@cheshirecandy I was dead sure that it was a dutch surename when i saw the spelling, i mean, who else puts two a after each other?

the big mystery though is why he say hulahäl

[xnadiaaaaaaa]

" I have to use spell check every five words.." LMAO

[HipHopJun]

Prince of Persia sucked. i saw the other day on Starz. Holy shit how could they fuck it up so bad??? It only reminded me of the Scorpion King.

[lexiconlover]

Which language does his name originate from?

[cheshirecandy]

@lexiconlover old swedish :)

[TheMrBlakeG]

yill-in-hool-ah-hay

what-the-fuck

O_O

[veryjellybelly]

hahaha so funny! I am from Norway and it's not the way you pronounce his surname..I like him:D

[peopleofthecheese]

He looks so earnest as he says "Gyllenhoolahey". I can't comprehend how anyone in the room kept a straight face.