Even among Method actors, Jared Leto is in a class by himself in the lengths he’ll go to for his extreme onscreen makeovers. Here are his eight wildest transformations to date.
‘Requiem for a Dream’
Playing a heroin addict in “Requiem for a Dream” caused Leto to drop weight and hang out with downtown drug users as research.Darren Aronofsky’s nightmare thriller about addiction starred Leto as Harry Goldfarb, a young man in Brooklyn who gets hooked on heroin along with his girlfriend and his best friend . Though he’d already appeared in a number of movies, including “Prefontaine” and “Fight Club,” this was the one that saw Leto really dig into extreme transformation for the first time.
Leto has said he lost a substantial amount of weight for the role, as well as spent time with junkies in downtown New York. “I did whatever I thought I could do in order to bring more authenticity to the role, more honesty … So I spent time with a group of people in the East Village, many of whom are no longer alive — they lost their battles to addiction.
He also sought out transgender people and talked to them, which he said at the time “was the education and the start of it all. I’m really grateful for those experiences.” He stayed in character throughout the shoot. “Every morning, when I stepped out of that van that took us to set, I always had my high heels on,” he toldTo play the role of the Joker in 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” Leto stayed in character throughout filming and reportedly gave his castmates disgusting gifts.
. “He had a henchman who would come into the rehearsal room, and the henchman came in with a dead pig and plopped it on the table, and then he walked out. And that was our introduction to Jared Leto.”
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