Jake Gyllenhall - I Need To Date More!

The actor spills on his fatherhood dreams and finding the one.

- Sara Bordon

With a plethora of hit films under his belt like Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain and Jarhead, you’d be forgiven for thinking Jake Gyllenhaal hadn’t put a foot wrong in his 25-plus years in Hollywood. But the 37-year-old insists there have been some misses. ‘I took things because they were jobs,’ he admits. ‘I mean people are paying you money, you’re 26, are you kidding?’

But then something changed. ‘I woke up one day and I wasn’t in the right room,’ Jake says of entering his thirties. ‘It was like a David Byrne song: “That’s not my beautiful house. That’s not my beautiful wife.”’

So Jake decided then and there to do what he really wanted. He moved from LA to New York, pursued musical theatre, chose smaller-budget independent movies and in 2015, started his own company, Nine Stories Productions. ‘[It’s] a growing up thing,’ Jake says of his transition.

So while we shouldn’t expect any huge blockbusters, action adventures or romantic love stories, we can expect more edgy performances from the actor – and maybe even the pitter-patter of little Gyllenhaal feet! ‘I want to continue becoming more of an adult than I already am,’ he shares. ‘Hopefully with a family of my own.’

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