8 Times Jake Gyllenhaal Fought His Own Hotness (And Won)
4. End Of Watch (2012)
2012, I hear you ask? But thats 5 whole years later. What was he doing in those 5 years? Was there a lot of hotness involved? Well, friends, the answer is sort of. Because it was in those 5 years that the reason for this war may have been revealed. In 2010, Jake starred as the buff, long-locked Dustan in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. He leaned right into his hotness and it sucked. It sucked A LOT. So he regrouped. He came back more determined than ever to defeat his genetic curse.
End Of Watch is a cop movie and it is exactly like every other cop movie youve watched except that its shot handycam-style so actually its exactly like every cop TV show youve watched. Your partners are your family, drug lords are bad. You know the drill.
And Jake? Jake straight up makes himself bald for this role. Now, there is nothing inherently wrong with baldness. There are a lot of attractive men out there who are bald, voluntarily or otherwise. But unfortunately, Jake has the kind of delicate beauty that switches to full-skinhead when you remove the hair. Its terrifying and really, very unhot. Well played, Jakes scalp.