The industry fretted that she was not conventionally “hot” enough, a criticism that Gyllenhaal brazened out at the time, but which she later conceded was “a hard thing to hear.” And when it wasn’t trying to maneuver her into a sexpot persona, Hollywood was instead dismissing her as “quirky” — a description she firmly rejected, stating that: “Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them.”
Source: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2022/01/07/2003770894