Jake Gyllenhaal always wears his "sl***iest outfit" every Halloween.
The 33-year-old actor has revealed his dad, director Stephen Gyllenhaal, is "obsessed" with Halloween and throughout his childhood Jake and his sister Maggie Gyllenhaal were forced to wear an elaborate outfit for the occasion.
Jake recalled some of his worst Halloween costumes during an interview with chat show host Conan O’Brien on his talk show ‘Conan’, explaining: "[I was] an Ocean Spray cranberry juice box … a cardboard box the size of my body with a straw that was made out of cardboard, and I wore a white spandex suit, and my hands came out of it, and you put the candy in the straw. It was a whole thing!
"It was like a month-long promenade toward Halloween – we designed it, there were drawings, every day after I finished my homework I had to do it with him.
"I was an Oreo cookie once, that was like that soft sort of foam and he cut it out – it looked like a 3D Oreo cookie and I wore, again, white spandex."
But Jake insists the most outlandish costume his father created was when the actor had to wear a battery pack because he was a lit up house.
Jake added: "The ultimate one he did one year was I was a house. It was a house with different scenes in each window, and there were lights that lit it up, and I wore a f***ing battery backpack.
"It’s not even done … and it fit on top of my head, I could only see out of the one window. The chimney was where you put the candy in. I could not hear a thing, I couldn’t walk in it, and my Dad was so proud of himself."
UK viewers can watch Jake Gyllenhaal’s interview on ‘Conan’ at 11pm on Monday (03.11.14), on truTV (freeview channel 68) – the home of larger than life characters in real situations.
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