Jake Gyllenhaal revealed that Maggie Gyllenhaal's two daughters were the inspiration for his new book 'The Secret Society of Aunts and Uncles'
“I love my nieces,” he told the outlet in an interview published on Wednesday, September 6. “They’re just incredible humans.”
Although he was excited to become “Uncle Jake” upon his eldest niece’s birth, he also found himself questioning what his new role in life would entail. “I think what I started to learn was it really meant whatever she wanted it to mean, you know?” Jake explained. “That became kind of what me being an uncle was and that it’s individual to all of us. But I just loved the idea, also, that to write a book about a relationship that there aren’t really any books written about.
“For me, being there for them in whatever way I can, acknowledging the things they’re going through, both good and bad,” he shared. “To know also that as they grow older, I’ll be someone they can come to if they ever need any outside advice, even with their parents, which you know is a really important position for an
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