We get the feeling Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim will be best friend’s forever after co-starring in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.
In the film Gyllenhaal plays US Army Sergeant John Kinley while Salim plays Afghan interpreter Ahmed who goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
Gyllenhaal gushed about his co-star on social media as the pair reunited to promote their new film.
He also gushed to HipHollywood about his co-star and how they bonded while filming.
The film starts out like your typical war saga about America’s volatile relationship with Afghanistan. It also sheds light on the many Afghans who believed they’d earned Special Immigrant Visas for aiding the US only to be abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
Salim spoke about taking on the role and the emotional and physical toll it took on him.
The Covenant is in theaters now.
