--- title: Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel, Palestine and How Obama Broke Her Heart description: "I still root for him," she says canonical: https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/ author: Belinda Luscombe article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-31T18:41:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:07.849Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How Obama Broke Her Heart og:description: "I still root for him," she says og:url: https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4724045e91e6551/69869e111eebf750d637219f/maggie_gyllenhaal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 29, 2014 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How Obama Broke Her Heart twitter:description: "I still root for him," she says twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4724045e91e6551/69869e111eebf750d637219f/maggie_gyllenhaal.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How Obama Broke Her Heart > Sponsored content. 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The actor on how to be human, her issue with Obama and why she won’t talk about the Middle East_  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Jul 31, 2014 6:41 PM UTC  Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 29, 2014 Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 29, 2014NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images  by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/)  ## Belinda Luscombe Editor at Large Jul 31, 2014 6:41 PM UTC Maggie Gyllenhaal comes from a long line of lefties, including her mom Naomi Foner, whose screenplay for _Running On Empty_ was nominated for an Oscar. The actress has been politically outspoken before standing up against the Iraq war. So it’s kind of surprising that she’s not such a fan of Obama,not will she take sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Or maybe not that unexpected. Taking sides in the Middle East could turn potential viewers away from her new miniseries [_The Honorable Woman_](http://time.com/3060484/review-the-honorable-woman-sundance/), which starts on July 31 on Sundance. “You know, you say one word on one side or the other, and you alienate hundreds of thousands of people,” she says in the longer version of her interview for the [10 Questions page of Time](http://time.com/3062874/10-questions-with-maggie-gyllenhaal/). “And I’m hoping actually to open many people’s minds and hearts even the tiniest bit. So, yes, I’m trying to think about what my ultimate intention is…and I’m trying to think before I speak.” In the longer video below (_pro-tip: skip the first minute if you watched the one above_), Gyllenhaal also explains how President Obama broke her heart. “I really believed in him and I’m not sure what he believes in any more.” She thinks he wasn’t aggressive enough in dealing with the National Security Agency, after it was shown that their activities were _Enemy of the State_\-ish than most Americans had been led to believe. “I still root for him,” says Gyllenhaal. “But I feel a little hopeless right now….I hope for a leader who will stand up and be unpopular.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/"},"headline":"Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How Obama Broke Her Heart","datePublished":"2014-07-31T18:41:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:07.849Z","description":"\"I still root for him,\" she says","url":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/","keywords":["Newsfeed","NSA","Television","politics","Israel","Obama","Interview","Gaza and the West Bank","video","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4724045e91e6551/69869e111eebf750d637219f/maggie_gyllenhaal.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Belinda Luscombe","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta4724045e91e6551/69869e111eebf750d637219f/maggie_gyllenhaal.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 29, 2014","caption":"Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal during an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers on July 29, 2014","creditText":"NBC/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/","name":"Maggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How Obama Broke Her Heart"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"10 Questions with Maggie Gyllenhaal","description":"The actor on how to be human, her issue with Obama and why she won’t talk about the Middle East","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1djs2UkJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-31T15:23:11.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1djs2UkJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/","duration":"PT3M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3063857/maggie-gyllenhaal-israel-obama/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```