Much like the rest of us, Jake Gyllenhaal is leaning right into isolation and finding new facets of his identity including but not restricted to: insanely buff man turning handstand tricks and now Very Proud Bread Dad.
That’s right, he’s just like the rest of us who have suddenly become utterly obsessed with owning and cultivating a sourdough starter at home, producing loaves of tart and zingy bread to enjoy fresh out of the oven.
He appeared on The Late Show this week to chat with Stephen Colbert about how he’s doing in isolation and how he somehow managed to literally phone in an a capella tribute to Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim.
But enough about musicals and Jake’s theatre stuff, I wanna talk about Jake Gyllenhaal: Bread Daddy.
This might be his final form here, and I’m all for it.
Talking his hushed whispers to Colbert because he had a heap of dough resting beside him and didn’t want to disturb it, Gyllenhaal explained that as he’s grown out his hair (a great move) and “inched into the hipster world”, he decided it was time to lean right in and start baking his own bread. Everyone’s doing it, it’s true.
Gyllenhaal showed off his bread baby, who really was having a big rest in a well-floured tea towel and breadbasket, and told Colbert that he reached out to his baker friend from San Francisco to ask how to nurture his new love: sourdough.
I just fucking love this shit so much, you know?
Please, just watch the first like five minutes of this interview. It’s literally just Colbert and Gyllenhaal gossiping about bread and giving each other baking tips and it’s both so wholesome and a little bit horny? Like, I just want Jake Gyllenhaal to bake me some warm, toasty bread, slather it in fresh butter and feed it to me? Is that normal or has isolation finally cooked my brain?
I think the absolute best part is the moment where (SPOILERS) Colbert reveals he has his own little tub of sourdough starter, which clearly gets Jake all excited because he starts asking is the starter has any bubbles in it, and how to feed it before using it in a loaf of bread.
Truly blessed (and gentle horny) content, this. Turns out my new kink is listening to men talk about baking bread in hoarse whispers. Thank you, Jake.
