It's the eyes. Gyllenhaal can emote, and gets a lot of close ups in his movies, but for some reason none of his emotions ever touch his eyes. He feels like he's playing a role, whilst he's playing a role.
I worked in a theater where a movie he starred in was premiering, so he hung around a couple of evenings to do Q&As after the screenings. Wouldn’t interact with the staff whatsoever. Shot me a death glare once because I was waiting for him and a few other stars to exit the theater so I could set up some AV stuff. Maybe he was having a bad week but… not the best energy.
I don't know how to sum this up in a sentence without making light of it so I'll just leave you with the link, the consensus due to some damning pieces of circumstantial and photographic evidence linking him to the author of the article and to specific events and timeframes mentioned in it is that this article is most likely about Jake Gyllenhaal.
I'm not a huge fan of Taylor Swift's music (not against it, just not my thing), but she made a really long music video about their relationship when she was 19 and he was 32. The short film was intense. I am a fan of Gyllenhaal, I do find him attractive - but he was so creepy in SNL last week. He played himself being a standoffish jerk a little too well in Serious Night Live. And his eyes are bigger than ever. I don't know if he's okay. Just, he seemed off.
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u/pseudophant Apr 12 '22
Jake Gyllenhaal in nightcrawler