Jake Gyllenhaal insists being legally blind has been “advantageous” to his career. The ‘Donnie Darko’ actor, 43, has 20/1250 vision and has been wearing intensive corrective lenses since he was six years old after being born with a lazy eye, which naturally resolved. He told The Hollywood Reporter about being classified as legally sightless: “I like to think it’s advantageous. I’ve never known anything else. “When I can’t see in the morning, before I put on my glasses, it’s a place where I can be with myself.” Jake told how he removed his contacts for a scene in his 2015 boxing drama ‘Southpaw…