According to the best piece of celebrity gossip I’ve heard this year and possibly ever, Jake Gyllenhaal’s taste in art might be more confounding than that of his art critic character, Morf Vandewalt, in the Netflix thriller Velvet Buzzsaw. Apparently he is serially having portraits of himself framed?
A Page Six spy recently overheard a conversation in a downtown art framing store between a collector—who had been lucky enough to get a portrait of himself done by a favorite artist—and the store owner.
When the guy asked the owner if it seemed too vain to get a picture of himself framed, the owner reassured him by saying, “Jake Gyllenhaal comes in all the time and I’ve never framed something for him that’s not a picture of himself.”
A source close to the actor insisted the pictures were posters for his movies.
Make sense, coming from a man whose crowning achievement was stealing Taylor Swift’s old scarf so he could live on in infamy as the inspiration behind her greatest song, “All Too Well.”
