Jake Gyllenhaal Says Being Legally Blind Has Helped Acting Career

Seeing is believing … or not, should you’re Jake Gyllenhaal, who says being legally blind has really given his film star profession an enormous enhance!

IYDK, the actor was born with a lazy eye, which naturally corrected itself, however he is been rocking sturdy corrective lenses since he was 6 — and for him, not with the ability to see clearly has all the time been the norm.

In truth, Jake says his imaginative and prescient woes gave him an performing edge … for instance, he tells The Hollywood Reporter he ditched his contact lenses for his 2015 motion flick, “Southpaw.”

To make his character’s response to studying his spouse died extra lifelike in a single scene, he did not put on his lenses so he may solely react to listening to the information delivered to him.

As for his private life … his blurry mornings have grow to be a sanctuary from the chaos, providing a peaceable escape earlier than he places his glasses on.

The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) says 20/400 imaginative and prescient is taken into account very low practical imaginative and prescient … and Gyllenhaal’s imaginative and prescient is 20/1250 — so yeah, that formally makes him legally blind.

This isn’t Jake’s first time opening up about his imaginative and prescient points … again in 2017, he shared he was bullied at school for carrying corrective glasses.