In perhaps the sweetest news of the day, Jake Gyllenhaal has opened up (again) about his dream of becoming a father.
While talking about his new role in the Broadway play Sea Wall / A Life, the 38-year-old actor said that he “hopes to become a father one day.”
Speaking with host Willie Geist on Sunday TODAY, Gyllenhaal said, “It’s a show about faith and family and the mess and comedy of life, you know? It’s really actually about two fathers and about, for my character, someone who’s just about to become a father. He goes back into his relationship with his own father and the passing of his father and how that makes him feel becoming a father.”
“I’ve learned — you know, I am not a father,” he continued. “I do hope to be a father one day.”
Gyllenhaal, who is godfather to Michelle Williams‘ 13-year-old daughter with the late Heath Ledger, Matilda Rose, also spoke of having children to PEOPLE in 2017. “I want to continue becoming more of an adult than I already am,” he said at the time. “Hopefully with a family of my own.”
In the same interview, the actor, who starred on Brokeback Mountain alongside Heath Ledger, said he loved that Ledger would shut down homophobic comments or jokes about the 2005 film. “I see people who have joked with me or criticised me about lines I say in that movie — and that’s the thing I loved about Heath. He would never joke,” Gyllenhaal shared.
“Someone wanted to make a joke about the story or whatever he was like, ‘No. This about love.’ Like, that’s it, man. Like, no,” he added.
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