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Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers The Exact Moment He Realized He Wanted To Be An Actor · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Most people don't know
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Speaker 1: what they want to do when their kids, or at
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Speaker 1: least their dream job changes as they grew up. But
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Speaker 1: some of us we know at an early age exactly
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Speaker 1: what we want to do for a living. Jake Jillenhall
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Speaker 1: is one of those people. He tells Deadline. I was
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Speaker 1: the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz in elementary school,
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Speaker 1: and I was maybe eight or nine, and I remember
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Speaker 1: the feeling of joy I had when I was up
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Speaker 1: on stage and this odd comfort and energetic exchange with
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Speaker 1: an audience. Everyone other kids they were nervous. I was wondering,
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Speaker 1: why does this feel magical to me? And that's when
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Speaker 1: I knew that feeling solidified. And now after thirty years
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Speaker 1: of doing it, it's still a special space for me.
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Speaker 1: When I get to do it, I love it so much.
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Speaker 1: It brings me joy. Jake's new movie The Guilty Netflix today,
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