I believe Jake Gyllenhaal uses illusion tech to change his appearance and impersonate other actors to challenge himself as an actor. He has been carefully replacing actors under our nose for the past twenty years. No other actors are real anymore. It’s all Gyllenhaal. He plays extras too, at first using video editing to duplicate himself until he learned to physically recreate every person on screen at once using millions of tiny drones that fly together in the shape of each human body. All these drone clusters are controlled remotely by the Original Gyllenhaal. He is the only true, ultimate actor. He doesn’t even need a crew, directors, cameramen. All shots can be filmed by drone, and the drone clusters need no sustenance. Only the Original Gyllenhaal must feast on the bodies of the filmmakers he has destroyed in his quest for power each night, his form twisting into something dark and otherworldly as he absorbs their souls. He releases the movies to theaters, but he just can’t seem to bring a crowd, probably related to their ten to twelve hour runtimes. So he creates his own audience, his portrayal of them so outstanding no one is the wiser. After that he plays critics, magazine writers, award show hosts and crowds. That year, Jake Gyllenhaal wins every Oscar, but it isn’t enough. Gradually, he expands his reach, silently killing off people in the night and taking their place. His acting is flawless and nobody notices their loved ones have been replaced by a drone cloud under the careful operation of Jake Gyllenhaal. Within the decade, he has replaced every person on the planet. He sits in homes and theaters, smiling as he watches himself on the screen. He has done it. He is an actor. He loses himself in his roles, walking his dogs, washing his dishes, wondering what it’s like to work in film. He forgets he was ever one man. He is the world. He is civilization. He is you, right now. He reads these words and they mean nothing to him. Nothing at all.