8 Times Jake Gyllenhaal Fought His Own Hotness (And Won)
3. Prisoners (2013)
There is no doubt that, by 2013, the Jake v Hotness Smackdown was tipped Jakes way. Offscreen, he had aged tremendously. Hed figured out facial hair and his boyish charm was still evident under his proper manly handsomeness. His struggle against babeliness was realer than ever.
So he mustve trawled through hundreds of scripts before finding one with the combination of unsettling and unattractive than Prisoners offered him. A skin-crawly, tense thriller about the abduction of multiple children, its about as unerotic as cinema gets. The cast is amazing but, really, who wants to suffer through a kidnapping movie?
Jake plays the detective on the case, proving he can play a huge range of law enforcement officers unattractively. When you Google Jake Gyllenhaal Prisoners the suggested result is Jake Gyllenhaal Prisoners Haircut and I cant imagine its because people want to emulate it. The shaved sides. The unkempt top. The constant suggestion of dripping oil. Between this and End Of Watch, the message Jake seems to be sending us is Cops cant be trusted with their own hair.