Weeks after it all fell apart with Chris Martin earlier this year, Jennifer Lawrence has sparked a frenzy by hanging out at a director’s house and ordering pizza and everything. Are they dating? Literally nobody can confirm this other than JLaw and Gabe Polsky, the director (and pizza consumer) in question, but does this mean you should know all about Gabe’s professional career just in case it turns out they are? Certainly.
Spotted at his LA house in low key casuals, an onlooker has reported to the New York Daily News that Jlaw brought her dog with her and the dog ran into the road before Gabe saved it. If that’s not love we don’t know what is (disclaimer: this isn’t proof they are in love). The pair also ordered two rounds of pizza (OK that’s love) and an insider says, ‘They definitely weren’t in there reading scripts, they were having a good time.’
So who is this Gabe? Well, here are five things you need to know about the director who saves dogs and orders two rounds of pizza – as well as making some films:
He’s a good director
A documentary he directed – Red Army, about the Soviet Union and its ice hockey team – premiered at Cannes this year and was described by *The Hollywood Reporter *as ‘one of the best documentaries that I have ever seen’, which is pretty impressive. He’s also directed The Motel Life, starring Dakota Fanning and Emile Hirsch, which came out last year which got called ‘outstanding and enthralling’ by The Washington Post. In terms of the future, he’s secured the rights to Albert Einstein's life which has got Oscar written all over it.
He’s fit
OK, sorry to be objectifying, but the man’s got sandy blonde hair and a nice face and he’s very strapping. Not much more to say on this except, ‘Go Jlaw.’
He speaks Russian
In an interview with Film Maker magazineon Red Army, Gabe admitted he can speak Russian ‘but I’m not great’, showing a bit of that self-deprecating charm that we love so much about Jen. ‘When I get into really complicated ideas, it’s very difficult for me to express myself,’ he said. ‘Some of the players [in the film] didn’t speak English as well, so I spoke some Russian to them and had an interpreter, but I understand a lot more than I could speak.’ Nothing hotter than a man who can speak a foreign language.
He's 35
Seems like 24-year-old Jen prefers the older guys – since breaking up with Nicholas Hoult (who’s 25) she’s dallianced with 37-year-old Chris and now 35-year-old Gabe. Who, in his interviews, seems way more serious than her and says things like, ‘The Red Army team was designed as an instrument of propaganda to prove the superiority of the Soviet system. The country’s investment in the team’s success was massive. The demanding lifestyle and oppressive circumstances under which the players trained was a reflection of broader Soviet society.’ Rather than burping and falling over.
He went to Yale
Which explains why he sounds so mega-smart in interviews – Gabe graduated in 2002 and majored in Political Science, so when he went to get into films, had no idea what he was doing (by his own admission in interviews). His mum is an art dealer, and his dad is a businessman, so he had no real background in the film industry, setting up a production company with his brother in 2009 called Polsky Films. He actually realised he wanted to get into films because his roommate in his senior year did sketch comedy, which made him start thinking about a more creative profession. Thank God, because if he went into politics, he probably wouldn’t be sharing pizza with the world's favourite person right about now.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.