{"id":12406,"date":"2024-06-06T19:47:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12406"},"modified":"2024-06-06T19:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T19:47:38","slug":"jake-gyllenhaal-opens-up-about-being-legally-blind-and-reveals-how-its-helped-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=12406","title":{"rendered":"Jake Gyllenhaal opens up about being legally blind and reveals how it’s helped his career"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jake Gyllenhaal likes to think of his visual impairment as ‘advantageous’<\/h2>\n

Jake Gyllenhaal has opened up on being legally blind and how it’s actually helped his career.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0Nightcrawler<\/em>\u00a0actor was born with a lazy eye that naturally resolved and has been wearing intensive corrective lenses since he was around six years old.<\/p>\n

Despite that, he is still registered as legally blind.<\/p>\n

In fact, Gyllenhaal admitted that he sometimes intentionally removes his lenses on a\u00a0film<\/a>\u00a0set if he has to shoot a particularly difficult scene.<\/p>\n

And while things may sometimes be difficult, the actor recently told The Hollywood Reporter that he likes to think of his\u00a0visual impairment<\/a>\u00a0as ‘advantageous’ when it comes to his career.<\/p>\n

He\u00a0said<\/a>: “I\u2019ve never known anything else. When I can\u2019t see in the morning, before I put on my glasses, it\u2019s a place where I can be with myself.”<\/p>\n

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Jake Gyllenhaal has opened up about being legally blind. (Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for SiriusXM)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Back in 2015, Gyllenhaal starred alongside Forest Whitaker and Beau Knapp in the film\u00a0Southpaw<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And to shoot a scene where a police officer tells his character that his wife has died, Gyllenhaal revealed that he removed his contacts so he could ‘listen more closely’.<\/p>\n

It’s not the first time the actor has opened up on his disability, telling The Telegraph in 2017 how he was an ‘easy target’ for bullies as a kid because of his corrective glasses.<\/p>\n

“I was always a sensitive kid,” the actor\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0of the teasing, admitting he would get into fights on the playground due to the unwanted attention.<\/p>\n

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The actor feels it’s been ‘advantageous’ for his career. (Todd Owyoung\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

One thing that’s uncertain is whether Gyllenhaal removed his contacts to film\u00a0sex scenes with Jennifer Aniston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The pair starred in\u00a0The Good Girl\u00a0<\/em>together in 2002. Aniston played Justine Last in the rom com, while Gyllenhaal portrayed the character of Holden Worther.<\/p>\n

Nearly two decades on from the film’s release, Gyllenhaal reflected on what it was like filming\u00a0raunchy scenes<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Friends<\/em>\u00a0star.<\/p>\n

Speaking to<\/a>\u00a0Howard Stern on his radio show, the actor was asked if it was ‘torture’ filming\u00a0those<\/em>\u00a0scenes with Aniston in the wake of his long-standing crush.<\/p>\n

Gyllenhaal instantly replied: “Oh yeah, it was torture, yes it was. But it was also not torture. I mean, come on, it was like a mix of both.”<\/p>\n

Stern went on to ask: “Did you say to Jennifer Aniston, ‘Listen Jennifer, I’m not trying to be rude here, if you’re feeling something – protrusion or whatever – I can’t control this?'”<\/p>\n

Finding the word ‘protrusion’ awfully funny, Gyllenhaal said: “Yes, I said it just like that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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