'WeCrashed': Inside Jared Leto's 6-Month Method Makeover as Adam Neumann (Exclusive)

Jared Leto is back on the red carpet!

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.

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 on Friday, 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.

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.

Jared Leto goes to great lengths to get into character. Take for example his latest role as WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann in the Apple TV+ limited series “wecrashed”.

Jared Leto went through an intense, months-long method transformation to become WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann in the limited series, Anne Hathaway’s portrayal as his wife, Rebekah, should not be overlooked. The actress, who is starring in her first TV series since the beginning of her acting career, delivers a captivating performance as one-half of the Neumann couple who thought they could “elevate the world’s consciousness” with their real estate tech startup. “She is someone who so identifies as a spiritual person, so I tried to identify and really get to know her that way,” Hathaway tells ET about channeling Rebekah.

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.

Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway hit the red carpet together for the premiere of their new series, WeCrashed, held at The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on Thursday (March 17) in Los Angeles.

Jared Leto, it's especially tough. ET's Lauren Zima spoke to the method actor at the premiere of his new Apple TV+ series, , where he described the «mourning process» that happens when he finishes playing a character and moves on to a new one.«Look, when you make a commitment, in any way, when you let go, there can be a mourning process,» Leto revealed. «Some of the things are physical.

Friday’s premiere of, ET has an exclusive sneak peek of Jared Leto as eccentric WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann, who is at the center of the Apple TV+ limited series chronicling the rise and fall of the real estate tech startup once valued at $47 billion. In the clip, Neumann is seen turning up the charm as he tries to make an early customer see the potential of what WeWork can be -- way before what it became during the height of his leadership at the company. “I want you to live your dreams and find yourself,” he says as his co-founder, Miguel McKelvey (Kyle Marvin), watches in the background. While the scene is brief, it shows a glimpse of what Neumann was capable of: getting people to think big.

NEW YORK -- When Jared Leto last appeared in a TV series it was 1995 and he played Claire Danes’ high school crush, Jordan Catalano, in ABC’s “My So-Called Life.” His character was the perfect bad boyfriend who left Danes’ angsty Angela Chase analyzing every encounter.The show lasted only one season (but it's cemented in 90s pop culture, along with the Catalano character) and Leto went on to become an Oscar winner for his work in the 2013 film “Dallas Buyers Club” and a rock star with his band 30 Seconds to Mars.Leto returns to television Friday in the limited series “ WeCrashed ” for Apple TV+ and says the experience felt more like making a film rather than TV.“The approach was the same. It was just much more material. It was like making six films.

Anne Hathaway is looking back at her time on set with co-star Jared Leto!

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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 limited-series from Apple TV+, .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.

Apple TV+ drama about the rise and spectacular fall of WeWork, the revolutionary shared-workspace startup that flamed out in historic Wall Street fashion to the tune of billions.The series, based on on the Wondery podcast “WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork,” stars Jared Leto as Israel-born “serial entrepreneur” Adam Neumann. After a brief flash-forward scene to September 2019 — when the s–t hit the fan — it’s back to 2007.

Jared Leto hopes so! The 50-year-old star caught up with ET's Lauren Zima at the 2022 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday where he discussed his upcoming anti-hero role. «I think it's a different take on the Marvel Universe, and it's a brand new character, so I'm super excited to share that with audiences,» he told ET of his role as biochemist-turns-vampire Michael Morbius. In the comics, Morbius served as a villain and antagonist for Spider-Man, so is there a chance that fans could see him and star Tom Holland on the big screen together?«I would love to get in the ring with Spider-Man,» Leto gushed. «I think Tom Holland is amazing, and we'd make quite a dynamic duo.»But when asked if that meant he and Holland, 25, had already filmed something together, Leto insisted, «I'm manifesting.» which also stars Michael Keaton, Matt Smith, and Adria Arjona, hits theaters April 1. The 27th Annual Critics Choice Awards aired live on Sunday, March 13 at 7:00 p.m.

While many of the recent rise-and-fall, true-story tech unicorn company tales follow a familiar pattern of hubris, greed, seductive hustlers, narcissistic splendor, delusions of grandeur and similar ideas of FOMO hype, (“The Dropout,” and “Super Pumped” to name a couple), the terrific Apple TV+ series “WeCrashed” stands out with its fascinating mix of entrepreneurial capitalism, new-age spirituality and an inspiring love story that fuels its protagonists to great heights.