Jake Gyllenhaal He can boast of being one of the most famous actors in all of Hollywood. An interpreter who also released a film a few months ago that he smashed on Amazon Prime Video, ‘Road House’, in which he appears with another celebrity like Conor McGregor.
Now, what many will not know is that the actor has had to deal with some setbacks, such as being legally blind since childhood, as he himself said in an interview with ‘The Hollywood Reporter’.
In it, Gyllenhaal confesses that was born with lazy eyeand that this problem was resolved little by little naturally, although has always had to face a series of limitations. In fact, He has been wearing glasses and corrective contact lenses since he was six years old, and until today.
The cruelty of many children made little Jake Gyllenhaal suffer bullying during his time at school for wearing glasses, although little by little he tried to use it to his advantage. And, in his words, It has a large number of diopters that place it very close to blindnessbecause up close he sees blurry.
“I like to think that’s an advantage. Because I have never ever known anything else. For example: when [me acabo de despertar y] I can’t see anything in the morning, just before putting on my glasses, it’s a moment of peace when I can be alone with myself”, the American actor has revealed.
Jake Gyllenhaal has pointed out that the fact of having lived with this vision problem has led him to want to look for jobs that, despite everything, can be “a little scary” in his situation: “The feeling I want to have is whether I can do it or not, that [el personaje] I asked myself things I still don’t know about myself.”.
As an example, the 43-year-old interpreter remembers a specific scene from ‘Southpaw’, when he was told that a character had died, and He wanted to act without his contact lenses so he would have to pay attention to the words being said to him instead of the text..
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