Here’s something you may not have known about Jake Gyllenhaal: He’s legally blind, and he’s been that way all his life. His vision is 20/1250.
Since he was six years old, he’s had to wear either intensive corrective lenses or Coke-bottle glasses to see. He even used to have a lazy eye, but it corrected itself.
Still it’s not all bad. He says, quote, “I like to think it’s advantageous. I’ve never known anything else. When I can’t see in the morning, before I put on my glasses, it’s a place where I can be with myself.”
Jake has even used his blindness at work. Like when he was filming the 2015 movie “Southpaw”. He removed his lenses for a scene where his character finds out his wife has died, in order to force himself to listen more closely.
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