Jake Gyllenhaal has revealed that he does in fact shower as regularly as everyone else, after rowing back on comments he'd made last month that he found bathing 'less necessary, at times'.
Seemingly jumping on the Hollywood bandwagon for neglecting cleanliness - following Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis' comments that they only washed their children when they saw dirt - Gyllenhaal told Vanity Fair in August: "More and more I find bathing to be less necessary, at times.
"I do believe, because Elvis Costello is wonderful, that good manners and bad breath get you nowhere. So I do that."
He added at the time: "But I do also think that there's a whole world of not bathing that is also really helpful for skin maintenance, and we naturally clean ourselves."
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However, during a Q&A at the screening of his new Netflix film The Guilty that took place on September 18, he clarified his comments - although not before cracking another joke.
"By the way, I [filmed] an independent film, of course I don't shower. What are you writing about? Of course, we don't have money for the showers," he said when asked about his hygiene routine once again.
"I think, by the way, anyone who's used a trailer, has the shower ever really worked? They don't work in trailers, the sinks barely do."
The 40-year-old then got slightly more serious, though, as he added: "I don't know what it was, it was an answer to a question where I was being sarcastic and ironic and it has followed me around."
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The Donnie Darko star quipped: "Unfortunately I showered before I came here so I'm sorry about that."
So there you go, turns out Jake Gyllenhaal isn't as stinky as he first seemed.
However, he is gaining positive reviews for The Guilty.
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A remake of the 2018 Danis movie of the same name, it sees the actor play an emergency dispatcher who receives a very mysterious and sinister call.
The events take place over the course of a morning in a 911 call centre, with operator Joe Baylor (Gyllenhaal) tasked with saving the life of a woman in extreme peril.
However, as the day unfolds, he starts to realise that all isn't quite as it seems, and so begins his search for the truth.
The movie boasts an all-star cast, with Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard, Riley Keough (The Devil All The Time), Paul Dano (The Batman) and Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboys).
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It's also been directed by Antoine Fuqua, having been adapted from a screenplay by True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto.
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