Hey, everybody. Welcome to Trashy Devourses. It is our Wednesday Trashy Breakups edition.

It is which has been redirected by, well, the world of the Swifties.

Thank you for joining us today. My name is Stacy. Oh gosh. I'm Alicia. I've been someplace else since midnight.

Last Saturday. You're going to give us the follow up this week for a bit. I'm going to have a story.

Respond. Alicia, sometimes we are just servants to the news cycle. And for no particular reason, I thought this would be a great week to turn our Trashy Breakups lens to actor Jake Gyllenhaal.

No reason. I gather he's having a bit of a strange few days. So we're just going to pull the bandaid off and make it a little stranger.

We're going to talk about two of his more prominent relationships. And then maybe you and I can chitchat about a third that's been getting some airing lately. Does that sound good?

Sounds good. Cool. Commence. Let us. Let us go, go, go. Sure.

Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal was born December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles. His father is film director Steven Gyllenhaal. His mother is producer and screenwriter Naomi Foner.

And apparently the Gyllenhaal line extends back to Swedish nobility.

Ula-la. Sure. Ushakalat. I don't know what I think sweetest chef from Muppets is.

There you go. Now that we've offended everyone.

With both of his parents and meshed in Hollywood, it was not a big deal for Jake and his sister Maggie to become involved with movies too.

Jake's screen debut was in 1991's City Slickers. He played Billy Crystal's son character. Oh, I forgot about that.

I really actually need to rewatch it because it's been coming up for me a lot. Anyway, from there he had a variety of smallish roles.

Sometimes alongside his sister after graduating from high school. He headed to Columbia University in New York where Maggie was a senior.

He was going to study Eastern religions and philosophy, but after a couple of years he realized that what he wanted to be very serious about was acting.

So he dropped out and was cast as the lead in the 1999 film October Sky. This was a very successful movie based on a very successful autobiography about rockets in the 50s in West Virginia and kids building them.

Anyway, I missed it. Well, who was in it, Jake?

You'd have to check IMDB for the rest of the cast, but making a note. Yeah. Anyway, good movie from whatever call. It's been a while.

I hope that we have all seen 2001's Donnie Darko where Jake stars alongside Maggie and a six-foot tall rabbit named Frank.

It's a weird one, but I really liked it. It was in 2002 that Jake would meet Kirsten Dunst who then was transitioning from being a successful child actor to being a successful adult actor, which is a tricky thing that not everyone accomplishes exactly.

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