- Jake Gyllenhaal once used his own pee to help someone with a jellyfish sting.
- Gyllenhaal said the incident occurred while he was working as a lifeguard on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" Friday.
Apparently, Jake Gyllenhaal took his job as a lifeguard just as seriously as he his takes acting roles and once used his pee to help someone stung by a jellyfish.
Gyllenhaal told the story on "The Kelly Clarkson Show" Friday after Clarkson asked him about any jobs he's had apart from acting.
He explained that as a lifeguard he was tasked with keeping people off of a private beach. "It wasn't like Baywatch, necessarily," Gyllenhaal joked.
In addition to enforcing this boundary, he also assisted with first aid, hence the jellyfish incident.
According to Gyllenhaal, someone was stung and he was told that in order to assist, they would need his pee.
"They told me that that was what you had to do, and a person was in pain," Gyllenhaal told Clarkson.
"I suggested that they — that we should — use pee and at that point, you know, the pain of a jellyfish sting," he said. "They wanted it. They would take anything, really."
Clarkson, who revealed she has also been stung by a jellyfish, clarified whether or not the actor actually peed on the beachgoer and asked if he peed in a cup.
"Well I didn't really pee on them. I sort of took some pee. It was their choice," Gyllenhaal told a laughing Clarkson.
"You do what you need to sometimes to save a life," the actor jokingly added.
Aside from sharing anecdotes, Gyllenhaal also spoke to Clarkson about his latest role in "Guy Ritchie's The Covenant."
The film tells the story of Sergeant John Kinley (Gyllenhaal) who gets wounded during the war in Afghanistan and is aided by an Afghan interpreter named Ahmed (Dar Salim).
"It's a very simple story, but it's a parable about two people just doing good despite themselves," Gyllenhaal said.
In an interview with Insider's Jason Guerrasio earlier this month, the actor said it's the first film he starred in that brought him to tears.
"It was the ending. The very end. I was also very emotional in the very first firefight of the movie, when everything goes sideways. Guy tells a story, particularly through action, he really tells an emotional story. I was surprised how much it would mean to me, that first firefight scene. It really got me," he told Insider.
"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant" is currently in theaters.