10 Biggest Things We Learned From Jake Gyllenhaal's 'Hot Ones' Interview

Some of his most vulnerable performances happened with movies that aren’t considered his best.

“Sometimes I’ll come to a film and I’m just in someone’s world and I’m doing my job. I am an actor for hire and I’ve done the work on my character and my character alone and it’s their world to build and I’ll just do that job, and try and do it better than they expected. And then sometimes you have a connection with someone. I believe the best stuff is when we’re most vulnerable. I’ve experienced that very rarely, where I trust somebody so much they can literally take me anywhere and I’ll go and I open up to them. The weird part of that is sometimes they’re not always the best movies I’ve made, so it’s a mystery. After however many movies, I still don’t know.”