A few months ago Jake Gyllenhaal (43 years old) surprised everyone with his big muscles in ‘Road House’, where he plays Dalton, the philosopher and security guard turned MMA fighter on Amazon Prime Video. But what no one knew is that the actor has been filming for years with serious vision problems.
The interpreter, who has just done an interview in ‘The Hollywood Reporter’ where they highlight that he had to take off his “glass ass glasses” to correct his 20/1250 vision (“it seemed like he was on some kind of hallucinogen,” they say in the media), he has confessed what it is like to work “legally blind.”
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The actor has been wearing corrective lenses since he was about 6 years old. He was born with a lazy eye that healed over the years, but he can still be said to be blind. “I like to think it’s an advantage. I have never known anything else. When I can’t see in the morning, before putting on my glasses, it is a place where I can be with myself.” he revealed in the aforementioned medium, where he says that sometimes he has used his blindness to help him in a role (like when he had to boxing in ‘Southpaw’, who forced himself not to see well to hear more).
The actor has also said that in recent years he has been looking for projects that “they scare a little“. “The feeling I want to have is: can I do it? That makes me wonder things I still don’t know about myself,” Jake said, also recognizing that sometimes the things you learn are uncomfortablelike you can get a staph infection by pressing your hand on a pile of broken glass (which happened after filming a fight scene in ‘Road House’).
Of course, he says that he is prepared for this philosophy of extreme challenge to backfire one day. Premiering and presenting his first play performing Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’ on Broadway with Denzel Washington is a pretty risky way to find out if he has the true gift for the bard. “Maybe I should have started with a sonnet,” he joked.
