{"id":132366,"date":"2024-06-06T14:43:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/jake-gyllenhaal-says-being-legally-blind-has-helped-acting-career\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T14:43:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:43:15","slug":"jake-gyllenhaal-says-being-legally-blind-has-helped-acting-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/jake-gyllenhaal-says-being-legally-blind-has-helped-acting-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Gyllenhaal Says Being Legally Blind Has Helped Acting Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seeing is believing … or not, should you’re Jake Gyllenhaal<\/strong><\/a>, who says being legally blind has really given his film star profession an enormous enhance!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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In truth, Jake says his imaginative and prescient woes gave him an performing edge … for instance, he tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/a> he ditched his contact lenses for his 2015 motion flick, “Southpaw.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n


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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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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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\u2019s imaginative and prescient is 20\/1250 — so yeah, that formally makes him legally blind.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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This isn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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But hey, these highschool beefs paid off! Jake credit them for his badass onscreen battle scenes with Conor McGregor<\/strong><\/a> within the “Road House” reboot launched earlier this yr.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n

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