Jake Gyllenhaal on a journey of discovery

Jake Gyllenhaal says his 30s will be a “decade of discovery”.

The Hollywood hunk says the last decade has been a learning curve for him in his career and now he hopes his thirties will be a new journey of discovery in his private life too.

“I feel a little bit more seasoned now I am 30,” said Jake.

“The last decade was all about my career and it’s gone well. Someone very special to me wished me the present of discovery into my thirties and that was one of the nicest things someone has said to me.

“My 30s will be a decade of discovery but I’m still waiting for it to start. I would hope it is discovery in lots of different aspects of my life.”

Jake recently admitted he was freaked out by his body double in new movieSource Code.

The actor plays an injured helicopter pilot, Captain Colter Stevens, who is enabled by scientists to live the last eight minutes of another man’s life in order to try and stop a bomb in the science-fiction thriller.

Jake admits he found it disturbing to be introduced to the prosthetic version of his character, which had electrodes wired up to ‘his’ exposed brain.

“It was pretty creepy to behold. They had my eyes moving and my lips, it was quite freaky. The process of doing those things, making the cast and everything, is often even weirder than when you see the result of it because it’s so suffocating and strange,” Jake said.

“But I’ve never seen something that looked so much like me and I even took a picture of it with me with my thumb up and then got really paranoid because I didn’t want anyone to like steal my phone and find my picture and be like, ‘That’s the ‘Source Code’!’ The brilliance of the artistry of how they did it is what blew me away more than anything.”