Conor McGregor “absorbed information like a sponge” while working with Jake Gyllenhaal on ‘Road House’. The 35-year-old UFC star makes his acting debut opposite Jake in the remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie and he’s admitted he took time to learn everything he could from his co-star and their director Doug Liman. He told Heyuguys.com: “I would have been in no shape to do this without Jake G and director Doug Liman. I absorbed the information like a sponge off of them and I was asking questions every single day. Every single set. Every single scene. And I’m blessed. I really am … I land…