Cultural appropriation straight, cis-gender actors in trans acting roles, such as when Eddie Redmayne played the role of artist Lili Elbe in the film "The Danish Girl" and when Jared Leto played the role of a trans woman named Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club". The gay community has expressed concerns about the use of straight actors to play gay characters; this occurs in films such as "Call Me by Your Name" (straight actors Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet), "Brokeback Mountain" (Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal), "Philadelphia" (starring Tom Hanks), "Capote" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman) and "Milk" (with Sean Penn playing the role
Jake Gyllenhaal only other film not directed by his father, in which Gyllenhaal was allowed to perform, was the 1993 film "Josh and S.A.M.", a little-known children's adventure. Gyllenhaal graduated from the Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles in 1998, then attended Columbia University, where his sister was a senior and from which his mother had graduated, to study Eastern religions and philosophy. Gyllenhaal dropped out after two years to concentrate on acting but has expressed intentions to eventually finish his degree. Gyllenhaal's first lead role was in "October Sky", Joe Johnston's 1999 adaptation of the Homer Hickam autobiography "Rocket Boys", in which