Credit: Gordon Correll

American Brokeback Mountain actor Jake Gyllenhaal described being legally blind as occasionally advantageous in his career. Despite his childhood amblyopia having naturally resolved, the 44-year-old has to wear corrective lenses for his 6/60 vision.

"I’ve never known anything else. When I can’t see in the morning, before I put on my glasses, it’s a place where I can be with myself," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

Gyllenhaal said removing his contact lenses would force him to listen more closely to fellow actors. Notably, he used this technique when shooting a scene for 2015 boxing movie Southpaw, in which police tell his character his wife has died.