Jared Leto

Actor Jared Leto, who plays the title character in Marvel's "Morbius," goes further than almost anyone to get into character for his movie roles, ...

The moment he would exit his trailer, it would no longer be Jared Leto, and he would not want to be spoken to as Jared Leto. He’s a very committed actor.” “This is a painting, not a photograph,” Leto said enigmatically, in an interview earlier this month about trying to evoke Neumann. “We did our best to bring an impression of this person to the screen. Leto went straight from “House of Gucci” to “WeCrashed,” the Apple TV+ series about Adam Neumann, the charismatic, disgraced CEO of WeWork. With only a week between productions, Leto again dove into character and didn’t surface again until shooting was over, according to his co-stars. It was so beautiful and powerful — I was moved to tears.” 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. When Leto stepped into the iconic role of the Joker in “Suicide Squad” (not to be confused with 2021’s “The Suicide Squad”), it was a perfect match for his obsessive character-immersion brand. “Every morning, when I stepped out of that van that took us to set, I always had my high heels on,” he told Entertainment Weekly. I got down to something like 114 pounds, and that was enough to do what I wanted it to do, which was to change everything about me.” They were very supportive and helpful and generous with their time and their experiences and there were nights that I spent basically homeless,” Leto told Vulture for an oral history of the film in 2020. But in the end, I wanted to explore a specimen embodying the total failure of humanity, just walk down this brutal path.” 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. I thought that was a good place to be.”