Jake Gyllenhaal was reportedly hospitalized after he punched a mirror on the set of “Nightcrawler,” according to reports.
Gyllenhaal needed to get stitches after the mirror cut him.
“Jake flipped out,” a source told People magazine. “His character was looking into a mirror during the scene and punched the mirror in anger and broke it, cutting himself so bad he had to be taken to a hospital.”
The incident, another source added, told the magazine that he punched the mirror while he was in character for the movie.
“The scene was emotionally charged and his character was talking into a mirror and he got so into it, he banged his hands against the mirror and it broke and cut him,” the source said.. “It was all the scene and not because he was mad about anything else.”
According to a report from CNN last month, Gyllenhaal has been trying to lose weight to get into character.
“(I’ve lost) probably a little over 20 pounds so,” Gyllenhaal told CNN. “I’m playing a character that is hungry literally and figuratively.”
