Jared Leto, who stars in WeCrashed, said he knew he would regret not meeting with Adam Neumann before embodying the former WeWork CEO for the Apple TV+ series.
22.03.2022 - 04:37 / perezhilton.com
Has Jared Leto learned anything from walking a mile in his characters’ shoes?
The actor is known for going to extreme lengths of a role. Not just in his dubious “method acting” stunts (like sending castmates rats), but in his physical transformations. From going rail thin for his Oscar-winning role in Dallas Buyers Club to getting ripped for the upcoming Morbius to the entire fat suit/prosthetics situation in House of Gucci, he always commits one way or another.
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If you lined up a bunch of Jared Leto characters together, you might not even recognize them all as the same man. Oddly, the incredibly fit 30 Seconds to Mars frontman lamented his base-level youthful good looks in a new interview with Men’s Health, saying:
Is he saying he wishes he could just play a character who looks like him, at his own age (50)? It’s kind of unclear. But the physical demands of a role don’t matter to him much, anyway. He remarked:
When the interviewer pointed out that he must have been thinking about his characters’ appearance a little, considering all the weight gain and weight loss and added muscle mass, he argued:
Uh, yeah, dude. This is the kind of stuff larger people — especially women — have to deal with all the time.
The role he’s referring to seems to be that of John Lennon’s murderer Mark David Chapman for the film Chapter 27. That came out in 2008. But despite experiencing fatphobia for himself firsthand, the My So-Called Life alum still committed to that fat suit (or similar prosthetics) for House of Gucci. The issues with fat suits have been well documented — and some Twitter users previously pointed out that he didn’t even have to wear one to accurately
Jared Leto, who stars in WeCrashed, said he knew he would regret not meeting with Adam Neumann before embodying the former WeWork CEO for the Apple TV+ series.
Jared Leto has made legions of fans swoon since he first hit the scene as teenaged heartbreaker Jordan Catalano in the 90s dramedy My So-Called Life. In the real world, the Oscar winner has had a bit of a reputation as a playboy as well, although he tries his best to keep his love life private, telling Rolling Stone in 2016 that he likes to “distract people” from his romances. “If I was in a relationship — I don’t know if I would share that information publicly,” he divulged.
Grammy Awards have finally announced the names of its guest presenters. Joni Mitchell and Dua Lipa Grammys 2022This year’s award show, hosted by Trevor Noah, has invited a diverse roster of musicians, artists, and actors to present the awards, including Joni Mitchell, Megan Thee Stallion, and Questlove.
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green-haired, tattooed maniac? A balding fashion scion? A gaunt, gangrenous heroin addict? (Unless you’re a Thirty Seconds to Mars fan, in which case maybe you picture lead singer Leto berating a crowd member.) Even among the ranks of beautiful movie stars who enjoy working incognito — think Charlize Theron in “Monster,” Christian Bale in “The Machinist” and “Vice,” Colin Farrell in “The Batman” — the 50-year-old Leto is in a class by himself in the lengths he’ll go to for his extreme on-screen makeovers. In his latest film, Marvel’s “Morbius,” Leto throws himself into the part of Dr. Michael Morbius, a biochemist who inadvertently makes himself into a vampire when a life-saving experiment goes wrong.
Jared Leto wears a full lace cape to the special fan screening of his new movie, Morbius, held at Cinemark Playa Vista and XD on Wednesday night (March 30) in Los Angeles.
Jared Leto is back on the red carpet!
Jared Leto hits the black carpet at the premiere of Morbius held at Callao Cinemas in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday night (March 23).
Development on a third “Tron” movie goes back to 2015 when there were reports that director Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), alongside leads Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde, was returning for “Tron 3” only for that incarnation to get scrapped by Disney. A second version has sprouted since, with Oscar-winner Jared Leto and “Lion” director Gareth Davis attached for the untitled pic and screenwriter Jesse Wigutow tasked with penning the script.
Thirty Seconds To Mars will release new material “momentarily”, according to frontman Jared Leto.Speaking to NME in November 2021, Leto confirmed that the band had penned around 200 tracks for their upcoming sixth studio album, which will serve as the follow-up to 2018’s ‘America’.“So we have so many songs now,” he said at the time. “We really took advantage of that time in lockdown, and hunkered down and started writing.”Now, in a new interview with Apple Music 1, Leto revealed that he and his brother and TSTM bandmate Shannon are currently sitting on “two albums, maybe three, worth of material”.“As challenging as [lockdown] was for so many people around the world and devastating for so many, there was also a flipside to it,” the singer told Zane Lowe (via Kerrang!).“And for both my brother and I, I think it was like the universe doing for us what we can’t do for ourselves sort of thing, where really, it was the first time we were in one place for that long since we were little kids.
Jared Leto is opening up about his famous transformations. The 50-year-old actor covers the April issue of , and talks about how dramatically changing his appearance for roles impacts his own life.Leto has played everyone from The Joker to Paolo Gucci, always staying in character on set, and always adapting how he looks for the role.While Leto's aware that his dedication to the projects won't actually turn him into the people he's playing, he tells the mag, «Your job is to bring to life the spirit of the person that’s depicted in the story, to serve the story... I’m thinking about the heart of the character, the soul, the spirit.»«Those other things,» he says of the prosthetics, the makeup, the bodily transformations, «it’s the description.»In the end, he explains, the physical changes he goes through are less about looking like a particular person, and more about getting insight into how that person walks through life.«How does it change the way you walk? How does it change the way you talk? How does it change the way people treat you?» he says of changing his own appearance for the sake of a role. «I gained over 60 pounds for a role once, and it was amazing.
The dark side of disruption. The new Apple TV+ series WeCrashed is a fictionalized take on the downfall of WeWork — and Adam Neumann, the man behind the curtain.
Jared Leto has done it again. The method actor, known for his extreme on-screen transformations, is almost unrecognizable in his performance as Adam Neumann, the charismatic founder of the WeWork communal workspace venture, in the new Apple TV series . The first three episodes of the eight-part miniseries hit Apple TV Plus today on March 18.With the help of a dialect coach and an expert hair and makeup team, Leto disappears into the real-life character of Neumann, whose idea for a single co-working space eventually became WeWork, a $47 billion start-up.
Anne Hathaway may have met her match with Jared Leto.ET's Lauren Zima spoke to Hathaway at the premiere of her new Apple TV+ series, , where she opened up about working alongside the consummate method actor.«He's so sweet. He's really playful and we just make each other laugh. We have a really gentle thing,» Hathaway gushed.