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Jake Gyllenhaal<\/strong><\/a> opened up about his longtime vision issues in a June 2024 interview. While speaking to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>, the actor dished about being legally blind and how it\u2019s affected his career.<\/p>\n Jake Gyllenhaal is legally blind with 20\/150 vision. He was born with a lazy eye and his vision problems continued after it resolved naturally.<\/p>\n \u201cI like to think it\u2019s advantageous,\u201d Jake told The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a> in a June 2024 profile. \u201cI\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.\u201d<\/p>\n The Brokeback Mountain star said he\u2019s even used his blindness to improve his acting. He reflected on a specific experience while filming Southpaw, which was released in 2015. Jake played a boxer in the movie and, in one scene, his character was told that his wife had died. The Los Angeles native said he took out his contacts to \u201cforce himself to listen more closely\u201d to his costar during the scene.<\/p>\n Jake normally wears intensive corrective contact lenses but has to rely on glasses when he doesn\u2019t have his contacts in. He has been wearing glasses since he was about 6 years old, according to The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>.<\/p>\n In a 2017 interview with The Telegraph<\/em><\/a>, the Road House<\/em> actor said he was an \u201ceasy target\u201d for childhood bullies because of his glasses. \u201cI was always a sensitive kid,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n Jake also reflected on his awkward years during a joint interview with Tom Holland<\/strong> in 2019. \u201cI have very bad eyesight so I wore very thick glasses,\u201d he recalled. \u201cThere was a moment where I got contact lenses for the first time in high school and my life changed. My braces came off and my glasses came off. There\u2019s plenty of pictures. I know there\u2019s at least one on the internet.\u201d<\/p>\n Taylor Swift<\/strong>, who dated Jake in 2010, included a line about the star\u2019s glasses in her song \u201cAll Too Well,\u201d<\/a> which she released in 2012. \u201cYou used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed,\u201d the pop star crooned in the song\u2019s second verse. When Jake posted a childhood photo of himself wearing glasses in 2020, fans flooded the comments section with this song lyric. Taylor shared the full 10-minute version of the song in 2021 when she rereleased her album Red<\/em> with several never-before-heard songs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\nIs Jake Gyllenhaal Blind?<\/h2>\n
Does Jake Gyllenhaal Wear Glasses?<\/h2>\n