It’s a hard-knock life for Jake.

Everyone gets a little starstruck evenJake Gyllenhaal.

“I remember putting my hand out to shake his and accidentally hitting the door.”

Jake Gyllenhaal, Brad Pitt

Jake Gyllenhaal and Brad Pitt.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Amy Sussman/Getty Images

Of course, Pitt being Pitt was more than cool about the gaffe.

“He said, so confidently and kindly, ‘Well, you have another one.

It’s all right,'” Gyllenhaal toldW.

“The pillow technique was used.

“Everything else is whatever it was.

It’s understandable that Gyllenhaal might have been a little anxious meeting Pitt, a bona fide A-lister.

But Pitt’s not the only star who’s caused the actor to fan-boy.

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