For years, Jake Gyllenhaal was the archetypal boy next door: nice big smile. Kind eyes. Would drop your daughter or sister at home, on time, and without performing a wheel spin to an inappropriate DMX tune before he jetted off into the night.
But with such clean-cut goodness came a sometimes insipid wardrobe: safety-first chinos, shirts and jackets. That sort of thing.
Well, no longer. At the opening of his new play Sea Wall/A Life in New York the Velvet Buzzsaw star debuted another look in a recent run of rule-breaking, risk-taking style choices - this time a psychedelic, sixties print suit that looks a bit like the view through a rusty kaleidoscope.
In the last year, the 38-year-old has been increasingly experimental. We've seen a silk kimono jacket. We've seen an oversized green and cyan knit. We've seen a forest green suit and a sudden, new aversion to tucking in his shirt.
All of which is a good thing. When the red carpet is so often an homogenous blob of safe, it's refreshing to see someone with the star power of Gyllenhaal try some stuff out. Most importantly, he looks like he's having fun - something you couldn't always say about Jake from next door.
