There’s no question that Jake Gyllenhaal is a talented actor, as evidenced with accolades like an Academy Award nomination and two Golden Globe nominations. In the case of Spider-Man, I think I realized, ‘Hey, you know, acting is really fun, you know? Enjoy it! And the people here are fantastic! Enjoy them and enjoy the life around you cause life goes by super fast.’ And I think that we go through journeys in our life where we’re finding ourselves. It’s all about the experience that you have with the people you’re making that film with. And oh my god, it’s all about the family of making a movie. It was such a cathartic thing to be able to throw out away all that seriousness and really become the actor that I think I’ve always wanted to be in a lot of ways… And find the play and the fun and the gratitude that I’m here and I get to do this. That class clown that I talk about that found that idea of just popping a shoulder and making a funny face. I think I had really lost that sense of play and fun that I am.

What was interesting when I went into Spider-Man: Far From Home was that I’m pretty sure I was taking myself too seriously. The actor explained how Far From Home allowed him to act in a way that was more fun, saying: Jake Gyllenhaal stopped by Vanity Fair break down his career, with Spider-Man: Far From Home being sandwiched in the conversation between 2014’s Nightcrawler and his latest movie, the Michael Bay-directed Ambulance.

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