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Jake Gyllenhaal thinks the moon controls us all

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Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed his theory of the universe and it’s not exactly conventional.

In an interview with Esquire UK the 34-year-old actor said he “believes deeply in the unconscious” and feels human beings are strongly influenced by their surrounding environment, including the Earth’s moon.

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“You literally accumulate the molecules of the space that you’re in,” Gyllenhaal explained.

“We’re like 90 per cent water, so naturally we are going to be affected by the moon when it’s full: if the sea is, why wouldn’t we be? That seems scientific to me.”

Gyllenhaal also said he uses his surrounding environment to help him prepare for his films, like his role as a police officer in the 2012 film End of Watch.

“If you spend enough time in whatever environment your character would exist in — the way I spent six months with police officers — then the molecules of that environment must transfer somehow,” the actor told the magazine.

“And then you put it on screen, and people go, ‘I feel something that I don’t normally feel.’”

For End of Watch, Gyllenhaal spent six months doing ride-alongs with real officers from the Los Angeles Police Department.

On his first night with the LAPD, he saw a man shot dead right in front of him.

“I have a whole slew of feelings about that,” he told The Guardian at the time.

“But it was definitely an awakening. Domestic violence, chasing stolen cars, family disputes … growing up where I did in Los Angeles, I didn’t see anything of this kind of violence.”

The actor appears next in this year’s Southpaw, a film about a professional boxer. Gyllenhaal trained for four months to prepare and even broke up with his girlfriend to physically prepare for the role.

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