Jake Gyllenhaal, actor: "I think at the beginning of my career, I played a marine, a recruit, and I got to know a lot of people in the military and learn from them. And I think it changed my perspective on the world. Just even being around and sort of touching that world just a bit. And, yeah, since then I have throughout my career played people who are ex-military, people who had a history in that, you know, and I've learned so much from that group and there's so much pride and love, the people that defend our freedom, that I am drawn to that story. I'm also drawn to characters in extreme circumstances, I think, because I think it brings out the humanity in people. And there's no better characters in an extreme circumstance than a soldier in particular. And so that may be also why I'm drawn to it."

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