What is it about Jake Gyllenhaal that makes him the perfectly dichotomous combination of adorable youthfulness and raw sexuality? Is it his boyishly rapturous smile? Is it the depth of his blue, piercing eyes? Or is it his apparent inability to keep his clothes on in Love and Other Drugs? While all of these attributes certainly help his persona, it’s his premium facial hair—which just screams of a youthful male finally flourishing into an individual of the utmost masculinity—that really keeps this duality alive. We undoubtedly support the beard in Jake’s evolution into the perfect man-boy sex machine (although we could do without its role in cinematic disasters like Prince of Persia). 

(source: Esquire UK)

—written by Saba