Jake Gyllenhaal’s surprise St. Patrick’s Day visit at a Boston hospital made several patients feel like they had the luck of the Irish.
The Southpaw, 35, actor stopped by Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood on Thursday in preparation for his upcoming film Stronger in which he stars as Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman.
“He was touring the hospital, just checking things out. They’re just checking out locations and people from the book, and Jeff had been cared for here,” said a representative for the hospital.
During his tour of the facility, Gyllenhaal ran into Denna Laing, 24, a National Women’s Hockey League forward who suffered a serious spinal injury during a game with her team, the Boston Pride. Gyllenhaal stopped to snap some photos with Laing, who shared her celebrity run-in on Twitter.
