Jared Leto and Lee Jung-jae are both double nominees at this weekend’s SAG Awards, but first they’re joining forces at Milan Fashion Week!
07.02.2022 - 06:09 / justjared.com
Jared Leto is opening up about how he’s mastered the accents in his most recent films, which include House of Gucci and the upcoming WeCrashed.
The 49-year-old actor opened up about how he rolled right into his performance as Adam Neumann for WeCrashed, right off filming House of Gucci, during a recent TCA panel.
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“I literally went from Italy to New York, just coming from House of Gucci where I was playing Italian, and little did I know they actually have a lot of similarities, the two accents,” Jared recalled at the event.
He went on to explain that “with Adam’s accent I wasn’t really doing an Israeli accent, I was doing Adam’s accent. An accent is just a series of mistakes. You learn how to say a word and maybe you don’t say it ‘correctly,’ whatever that means, but it’s just a series of habits. It’s the way your mouth makes shapes. Everyone learns theirs differently.”
Jared also spoke about turning his portrayal into a caricature: “I think probably the insurance against things slipping into caricature is to dive into as much truth as possible, right? In this case I had a great team of Israelis surrounding me that I was working with. We kind of had our own bubble during this time when we all were in a bubble, so that voice and that accent was around me all the time.”
When talking of House of Gucci, Jared said that in contrast of preparing to play Adam Neumann, he didn’t have a lot of footage of Paolo.
“I had about a minute and a half of his voice in an interview,” he said.
Many other stars have spoken out about mastering accents in their own projects. Check out one of them here!
Jared Leto and Lee Jung-jae are both double nominees at this weekend’s SAG Awards, but first they’re joining forces at Milan Fashion Week!
It’s a story about grifters, self-belief, delusion, a global brand that almost collapsed, and a love story: It’s “WeCrashed,” a new Apple TV+ with a stellar cast and amazing creators. The highly-anticipated limited series stars Academy Award and SAG Award winners Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway and is based on the hit Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork.” From creators Lee Eisenberg (“Good Boys”) and Drew Crevello, “WeCrashed” premieres globally on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on March 18, followed by new weekly installments each Friday during its eight-episode season through April 22.
Apple TV+ has released the full length trailer for the upcoming limited series WeCrashed!
WeCrashed,” a new drama limited series starring Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway.Based on the podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork” by Wondery, “WeCrashed” tells the story of WeWork, a commercial real estate company that provides shared workspaces for technology startups. The show focuses on the rise and fall of Adam Neumann, the Israeli businessman who founded the company and stepped down in 2019 as its value plummeted.The trailer shows Neumann starting the company with his wife Rebekah (Anne Hathaway) and developing it into a global brand.
Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto are ready to revolutionize the world of work in their new AppleTV+ series, .The eight-episode series, based on the Wondery podcast series, , tells the real-life story of one of the most valuable startups in recent history, and the personalities behind its swift and seemingly inevitable demise.Leto plays Adam Neumann, the Israeli «supernova» who founded WeWork -- a co-working startup that was, at one time, valued at $47 billion -- with Miguel McKelvey, played by Kyle Marvin in the series. However, it's clear from the trailer that this is mostly a story about the partnership between Adam and his wife, Rebekah, played by Hathaway, who supports her husband's grandiose plans while also striving for a seat at the corporate table.«Are you a maverick or a muse?» a reporter asks Rebekah in the trailer. She answers quickly that she's merely a muse, but later confesses that one of her goals is to be featured in .«not for muses,» the reporter points out, to which Rebekah responds, «Then I wanna change my answer.»Check out the full trailer below:The series also stars America Ferrera, O-T Fagbenle, Robert Emmet Lunney, Steven Boyer, Cricket Brown and more. premieres with its first three episodes on March 18 on Apple TV+, with new episodes hitting the streaming service every Friday.
Jared Leto, Jodie Comer and more have joined an all-star cover of Olivia Rodrigo‘s huge hit ‘Drivers License’.The actors and musicians joined forces for the rendition of the record-breaking 2021 track as part of W Magazine’s ‘Lyrical Improv’ series, which sees celebrities taking it in turns to read lyrics from famous songs.Also involved in the cover are Leslie Odom, Jr., Tessa Thompson, Simon Rex, Jennifer Hudson, Emilia Jones, Kodi Smit-McPhee and Ruth Negga.Watch the cover below.Last month, Olivia Rodrigo shared a throwback to celebrate one year since the release of ‘Drivers License’.The song was first released on January 8, 2021 as Rodrigo’s debut single. It went viral on TikTok soon afterwards, and went on to become one of the year’s most popular songs, topping charts in the US, UK, Australia and more.In a caption posted with the clip on Instagram yesterday (January 8), Rodrigo wrote: “Happy first birthday to the little song that changed my whole life.
Anne Hathaway is stepping out for the night!
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission.“House of Gucci” may have been snubbed by the Academy this year (save one Oscar nod for makeup and hairstyling) but you can still give the very camp, very Italian drama your love now that it’s finally available for purchase. And this time around, you can even replay the film’s most epic lines as many times as your Gaga-filled heart desires.The movie dropped on DVD and Blu-ray today, quickly becoming a #1 bestseller on Amazon where it’s currently 40% off. For only a little over $20, you get permanent access to the film in 4k resolution, in addition to a digital code that allows you to watch it from any streaming device.
Roberto Bentivegna, co-writer for the Ridley Scott-directed “House of Gucci,” developed most of the script over Zoom when he was stuck in Colombia during the onset of the pandemic. And yet, for a virtual screenwriting experience, it went off without a hitch.“The process was very smooth,” Bentivegna told TheWrap about the process of writing the script. “I read the script in February of 2019, and we spent a couple of months casting the movie,” he said.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” has just been given an A-list makeover.
Anne Hathaway is paying a visit.
the 2022 Oscar nominations on Tuesday morning. The announcement was a spectacular school-marm-like repudiation of the popular kids. Here’s who’s in detention.Gaga certainly assumed she’d be included in the Best Actress roster for “House of Gucci” alongside Oscars Terminator Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”), Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”) and Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”).
Zack Sharf Despite landing a SAG Award nomination and significant Oscar buzz for his performance in “House of Gucci,” Jared Leto is now a contender for a Razzie Award for his portrayal of Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott’s murder drama. Nominations for the 2022 Razzie Awards have been announced, spotlighting the worst films and performances of the last year.
have been announced — and it’s not good news for Bruce Willis.The action hero, 66, has been given his own special category at the upcoming awards show— which will name “the worst movies” of 2021 —after he starred in eight critically-panned flicks in the space of a single year.The special category is titled “Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 movie” and includes every single film the actor appeared in over the past 12 months.The aging star — who was once a box-office drawcard thanks to lead roles in “Die Hard” and “Pulp Fiction” — made seven direct-to-video movies last year, including “Out of Death,” which has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.Willis also appeared in “Midnight In The Switchgrass,” which was released in cinemas but was similarly lambasted by critics.“Excruciating musicals, thrill-free thriller rip-offs, a nearly 2-hour product placement flick, and more Bruce Willis than any starving viewer could stomach,” Razzies organizers said in a press release promoting the nominations on Monday.
The 2022 Razzie Awards nominations are here.
Ridley Scott's true-crime film debuted in theaters, audiences can indulge in the wickedly decadent drama from the comfort of their own homes — with the thriller now available to buy and watch on a number of streaming platforms.Through its particularly luxe lens,depicts the rise of the famed Gucci empire, along with the headline-making scandals that arose out of the Italian fashion house throughout the '90s. The film was adapted from the book and explores the implications of Patrizia Reggiani's (played by Lady Gaga) marriage to the former head of Gucci, Maurizio Gucci (played by Adam Driver). Maurizio was killed in 1995 through a murder-for-hire scheme, which saw Reggiani at the center of the case.Between its box office success, awards season buzz and star-studded cast — which features Gaga, Driver, Jared Leto, Al Pacino, Salma Hayek, Jeremy Irons and Jack Huston, among others -- this high-stakes flick is a can't-miss watch for true-crime nerds and Gaga fans alike (hi, Little Monsters).
Oscar Isaac (“Dune,” “Moon Knight”) and Jared Leto (“House of Gucci,” “Morbius”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.In “House of Gucci,” Jared Leto vanishes into a larger-than-life performance as fashion world ne’er-do-well Paolo Gucci. By contrast, Oscar Isaac’s turns in Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter” (as William Tell, a poker player with a dark past in the Iraq War) and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” (as Duke Leto, the head of a powerful interstellar dynasty) are tightly contained.But the two actors still find many similarities to discuss, including their future as Marvel superheroes — Leto’s Morbius and Isaac’s Moon Knight — and their alternate careers as musicians starting in the 1990s.