Many celebrities have recently revealed that their first or last name is consistently mispronounced by the public. If you say Rihanna like rhymes with Anna since Frozen, you were wrong. If you throw a strong r when you say Margot Robbie, you said it wrong. If you thought you’d been pronouncing Jake Gyllenhaal’s last name correctly all your life, well, it’s complicated.
Thanks to the wonder that is Youtube, a video recently surfaced of Conan O’Brien having a late night friendly chat with Jake Gyllenhaal. In it, O’Brien confirms what he had always suspected: the public has mispronounced Gyllenhaal throughout his career.
In fact, the comedian went out of his way to pronounce Gyllenhaal, which sounds more like yee-len-hoo-oyl when it comes out of Conan’s mouth. It’s so hard to pronounce that I don’t even know how to spell the pronunciation key correctly. But you can hear the two Hollywood personalities talk about it Should be the correct pronunciation below.
So this is the correct Swedish pronunciation of the name, and one of the actor’s lines is said correctly only in “Sweden” and “IKEA”. Unlike the whole Rihanna situation, you shouldn’t feel too bad if you’ve been saying something like Jill-in-Hall your whole life.
Why? If you’ve ever seen Jake Gyllenhaal introduce himself, like in his web FAQ interview he did with Ryan Reynolds, he says his name like you’d probably guess. and aside Nocturnal bird interviewThe actor confirmed that he loves the Americanized way of pronouncing his name.
Like many families who immigrated to the United States at some point, it appears that Jake Gyllenhaal and his family Americanized their Swedish surname at some point. Although it should be noted the Ambulance The actor is familiar with the origins of the route the way it should be told.
Interestingly, while people don’t seem to have too much trouble with Gyllenhaal these days, though that doesn’t stop him from being constantly questioned about his last name, his Michael Bay co-stars Ambulance The film Eiza González and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II were interviewed and joked about it due to its problems with people remembering how to pronounce one’s name correctly. Abdul Mateen II told Thread:
The other day Eiza and I were talking about pronouncing names and we joked that no one has a problem pronouncing Jake’s name because we’ve known him forever. He is a Hollywood staple.
So when it comes to the pronunciation of names in Hollywood, you probably said Jake Gyllenhaal’s name the way he meant it and he said it himself. However, if you want to dig a little deeper and learn the correct way to say it in Swedish, I guess it’s worth getting some bonus points. Either way, I’m sure someone will ask Gyllenhaal again to shoot his next TV thriller.
Source: Cinemablend
