Jake Gyllenhaal and director Denis Villeneuve can't get enough of each other, having done two movies in a row: "Prisoners" and now "Enemy."

"Jake wanted to be cast as a girl [in my next two films] and I said 'no,'" Villeneuve joked during a recent phone interview with Yahoo Movies. He and Gyllenhaal were inseperable during the filming of "Enemy" — shooting by day, sharing drinks and strategizing the next day of filming by night. "I wanted Jake to improvise a lot," he said.

In our exclusive trailer debut for "Enemy" (above), Gyllenhaal plays a man who is deeply troubled after he discovers he has a doppelganger.

We spoke with the 33-year-old actor last fall about the film and his propensity to work with Canadian director Villeneuve. "I consider him a brother… I love him and [laughing and mimicking his French-Canadian accent] I deeply hate him too," he told Yahoo.

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The two got along famously when they first met, when Villeneuve pitched his initial sketch of "Enemy" — which Gyllenhaal told us started out as a manifesto. The star joked in another interview that they both got drunk off one bottle of wine, while Villeneuve told Yahoo, "Our creative relationship became very intense."

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Villeneuve admitted he and the "Brokeback Mountain" actor had a few "explosions" on the set of "Prisoners" (which they actually shot after they did "Enemy") and that sometimes the crew "was afraid."

"By then we knew each other too much," he said with a laugh. "We are very close and we like to be very direct. We are both Italian style… expressive," the director explained. "But… we love each other."

Gyllenhaal echoed those thoughts in our prior conversation: "We are of like minds, true collaborators."

The brooding, mysterious feel of "Enemy" may appear like a very different movie than the desperate hunt for kidnapped children that "Prisoners" portrayed, but Villeneuve argues "both are like puzzles… a whodunnit."

He also admits to the film's purposeful "Hitchcockian" feel: "Yes, I was really inspired by those psychological thrillers."

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The big challenge for Gyllenhaal was in filming the two roles — one as a professor and the other as what Villeneuve described as "more of a mystery." Gyllenhaal filmed the first, more developed role before moving into his second character.