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Jake Gyllenhaal Wants Roles That ‘Freak Him Out a Bit’

Taking on every range of role in his three decade career, the multi-faceted actor now looks for projects that come with a challenge.

Tracing it back even further, Gyllenhaal believes this exploratory desire was passed down from their artist parents (their father is director Stephen Gyllenhaal and mother is screenwriter Naomi Foner). This inquisitiveness has bled back into his work and continues to this day as he prepares to take on his latest challenge, starring opposite Denzel Washington in a new Broadway production of Shakespeare’s “Othello.” “I have a bit of dyslexia, too, particularly within the articles of things — like, I’ll reverse them.

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