Looking at this long running series I was surprised to see that I had not done an instalment on Jared Leto, who was in one of my all time favourite films, Mr.Nobody. He was born on December 26, 1971 in Bossier City, Louisiana. Growing up he moved around a lot because his grandfather was in the army. His father took his own life when Jared was just eight years old. His mother stimulated him to be creative. He was so interested in art that he ended up going to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Because he liked visual art so much, which included filmmaking he stopped in Philadelphia and went to the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He also started acting and did some small roles on various TV shows, including Camp Wilder, Almost Home and Rebel Highway. He landed a bigger part in the show My So-Called Life. He slowly started acting in movies like The Last of High Kings and Prefontaine. He got a supporting role in Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line. He acted in Black and White, “Girl, Interrupted”, Fight Club and American Psycho. He starred in Requiem for a Dream and lost 28 pounds for the role. Other movies he was in include Alexander, Panic Room, A Beautiful Lie and Lonely Hearts. For his role in Chapter 27 he gained a stunning 67 pounds. For his role in Dallas Buyers Club he lost a lot of weight and his performance earned him an Oscar. Besides his acting career he also is part of the band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
What’s your favourite Jared Leto role?
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I think his best performances so far has been in Requiem for a Dream and in The Dallas Buyers Club. Yet, I find his work in films to be quite spotty as I hated some of the films he’s been in as well as some of the performances such as Chapter 27 which I think was absolutely terrible and it was Leto attempting to be taken seriously. I didn’t buy him as Mark David Chapman at all but that was just one of the film’s major problems.
I usually have mixed feelings for him as a person where he can seem endearing at times but he’s also a douche as he doesn’t take criticism very lightly as far as the opinion he gets for his band 30 Seconds to Mars as I heard he screamed at Elijah Wood because Wood said the band sucked in a magazine interview one time. Wood is right, they do suck. Sorry but it’s true.
Those would be the two I’d pick as well, plus of course Mr.Nobody 🙂
Have never heard his music, so can’t comment on that.
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