The Southpaw actor is one of the most famous faces in Hollywood, having starred in hits including Brokeback Mountain, The Day After Tomorrow and Jarhead. But in recent years, the 34-year-old has tried to focus on roles that challenge him mentally as well as physically, and it seems to be paying off with audiences.
"People say, 'You made all these changes in your life, and all your movies seem so different now. I really like the movies you're making now,'" he laughed to Details magazine, before trailing off. "Which implies that they didn't . . .[before]."
His work on movies like Nightcrawler and current flick Southpaw has received much critical acclaim. The praise has come at the right time for the star, as he admits he was a little unsure what path to take with both his professional and private life a few years ago.
"We're all told we're going to get to a place where those things will come together, where we'll somehow be whole or happy or whatever it is. So I went searching," he confessed. "I was at a place in my life where I felt totally split, [and] I had just moved from Los Angeles to New York."
His sister Maggie and her actor husband Peter Sarsgaard live in the Big Apple with their two children. His mother, screenwriter and director Naomi Foner, also lives in the city and Jake started to realise he wanted to be closer to his family than Tinseltown.
"There's a period of time in your life, in your twenties, when you're listening to a lot of other people's opinions," he explained. "You're not sure about what you believe in, and you're moving in a direction that you feel like looks right to other people. And then you think, Wait, what do I feel' What do I want' What moves me' It's not always so pure and clear. It's not like I have my agent on one shoulder and my pure artist on the other."
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