The Covenant Interview: Jake Gyllenhaal & Dar Salim on Working with Guy Ritchie

Dar Salim (The Devil’s Double) and Academy Award-nominee Jake Gyllenhaal both have a significant amount of filmmaking experience, but Guy Ritchie made The Covenant with a rather unique process, a process that made a lasting impression on both actors. With the film due out in theaters on April 21st, the duo spoke with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff about their partnership on set and how that collaboration will influence their approach to their work on future sets. The Covenant is set in Afghanistan in 2018 with Gyllenhaal playing US Army Sergeant John Kinley. His latest mission requires a new Afghan interpreter so he chooses Salim’s Ahmed to accompany them. Following an ambush by the Taliban, Ahmed puts his life on the line to help an injured Kinley make it through a harrowing trek to safety. In the end, Kinley does make it home, but Ahmed’s heroic actions force him to go into hiding. When Kinley finds out that Ahmed and his family weren’t given safe passage as promised, Kinley returns to Afghani