Jared Leto: The Unlikely Triumphs of a Rock- Star Movie Star. Jared Leto is wearing a preposterous straw hat this morning, a gigantic, not- quite- a- sombrero thing he bought for seven bucks at a corner store. And why not? He's made it this far by committing fully, sometimes crazily, to everything in his life: Method acting, music- making, video directing, tech investing, not to mention the arts of being enigmatic, brainy and really, really good- looking. I don't dabble," he says. I dive in, 1,0. 00 percent." So if he needs sun protection for a hike, of course he goes big. In any case, Leto recently turned 4.
I don't feel old" — and looks maybe 2. It's 1. 1: 1. 5 a. Thursday in June, and Leto already got in some recording today for the in- progress fifth album from his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, which played arena rock long before they reached actual arenas, with Leto fronting them under the apparent operating principle that Bono's big problem is excessive bashfulness. Leto parks his unassuming vehicle of choice — a GMC Yukon SUV he's owned since 1. Malibu road, ready for a bouldering trek through one of his favorite paths, in a mountainous, 8,0. With the panache of a tour guide, Leto points out spots seen in Planet of the Apes and M*A*S*H.
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Under Leto's unbuttoned chambray shirt is a NEPAL I LOVE YOU tee he owns in multiple colors — that nation's post- earthquake recovery is a pet cause, though he's never had a chance to go there. He did pay a 2. 01. Haiti, where he spent time as a kid.) He's got on slick North Face hiking pants, green hiking shoes with yellow laces, and one of the many pairs of striped socks he and his brother and bandmate, Shannon, exchange for Christmas every year. He's strapped on a blue backpack that holds, among other items, trail mix and a big thermos of water. Over the course of an intense three- and- a- half- hour trek, Leto, a longtime vegan, nibbles a bit of the trail mix. I'm actually a cheagan," he clarifies, "a cheating vegan.
I don't eat meat ever. But if someone's mom made a cookie and handed it to me, I'd probably take a bite, or if I'm in Alaska and there's wild salmon out of the river, I'd probably eat it.") But he never drinks a drop of the water, which he brought for me — assuming, correctly, that I wouldn't be smart enough to supply my own. I usually don't bring water," he says. I'm a bit like a lizard." He's probably not an actual lizard- person, but there is something alien, almost unnerving, about Leto, and it's not just the freaky gemstone blaze of his greenish- blue eyes, currently obscured by aviator shades. He's warm and engaging, with none of the solipsistic remoteness that often comes with years of fame.
But he also seems curiously self- perfected, as if he's gone clear in some one- man Church of Letology, and sleeker than any Homo sapiens should be, moving with serpentine ease. Showtime Full Snowtown Online Free. He recently took a genetic test, with revealing results: "I have a lot of Neanderthal in me," he says.
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Maybe that's why I'm so good at climbing." There's a telling scene in Artifact, Leto's entertaining 2. EMI, where he half- jokingly bemoans the musical imperfections of "humans."Jared Leto, on the cover of Rolling Stone's new issue. Theo Wenner"Did you play sports in high school?" asks Leto, who didn't. I was too busy taking drugs," he says.
Which was kind of a sport." These days, he adds, he's "essentially" straight- edge, and certainly doesn't drink. There's all kinds of ways to change your state of mind or to get out of yourself," he says. Like, with the occasional psychedelic?
No, only at Burning Man. Only if I'm having an orgy at Burning Man will I take that." (He's probably joking, but then again, he did go to Burning Man last year.)Above, the occasional eagle flies by; a snake slithers on the trail ahead. The hike starts to get interesting as we scramble along a rock wall just above a creek where college- age kids are swimming. From here on, each movement is tricky, requiring precise hand and footholds, and Leto navigates it with speed and ease, all the while guiding me through dozens of specific movements."Stay superclose to me," he says, "and just replace my feet and my hands. And stay super- relaxed. Don't overgrip. Just really trust your feet.
There you go! You're alive!" That guidance, delivered over the course of hours, takes extraordinary patience and focus, but he enjoys it, constantly taking new people on this path — there are paparazzi shots, for instance, of him navigating it with a couple of young women. This kind of climbing is nothing for him, anyway — the 3,6.
El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park, is more his speed. Leto is fond of rock- climbing metaphors, so maybe it's not too on- the- nose to note that the course of his showbiz career has been as jagged as the kind of terrain he's fond of traversing. A decade ago, he was heading toward his mid- thirties as a respected but hardly box- office- smashing actor on an uncertain trajectory, with a fledgling, eyeliner- enhanced music career that most non- teens considered a vanity project at best.
There were so many people that didn't understand," Leto says. There were people in this town who thought it was insane.
There were films that I decided not to do because I had tiny little tours, and people would just lose their minds. And some of them turned into the biggest movies ever made." "I don't dabble," Leto says. I dive in, 1,0. 00 percent."Theo Wenner. Now, thanks to his band's steady, hard- won progress; a 2.
Oscar for his bravura turn as a transgender woman with AIDS in Dallas Buyers Club; and his key role as the murderous Joker in August 5th's supervillain- centric potential blockbuster Suicide Squad, he is both an actual rock star and an A- list movie star — a double brass ring that no one else in his generation has come close to grabbing. Watch Talking Funny Online Ibtimes. More than one Academy Award- winning actor has walked into my office," says Leto's music manager, Irving Azoff, "and said, 'I can be a successful rock star, help me!' He's the only one that pulled it off."Remarkably, Leto's acting career is only now hitting its stride, after beginning in 1. My So- Called Life role as literacy- impaired high- school- boiler- room make- out king Jordan Catalano. And his newfound status follows an unheard- of six- year break from acting — between 2. He's not bound to anything," says his Dallas Buyers Club co- star Matthew Mc.
Conaughey. "He's on his own trip. If he considers what might be the next best move for himself, he sure does disguise it. At the same time, he's very aware of what he's doing." Trotting down a trail, Leto pauses, finds a foothold, and starts a catlike ascension of high, vertical mountainside. The route seems impossible, deranged, even, but he'd been so trustworthy and steady up to that point that I shrug and start to follow. After a moment, he cackles, hops down and moves to a more reasonable path.
I'm just fucking with you," he says, still laughing. You're crazy! How come you didn't say anything?" It's funny as hell, no doubt — a glimpse of the Joker, perhaps, and also not completely unrelated to certain lyrics in the Thirty Seconds to Mars oeuvre, such as "I'll wrap my hands around your neck so tight with love" and "I punish you with pleasure/I pleasure you with pain." "I was watching real violence. There's a lot you can learn from seeing it. People can be calm.
It's methodical and sometimes even hypnotic and deliberate."Soon, we're 3. If you fall down, you're gonna break your head open," Leto says, noting that a professional guide would "probably" use a rope for some of it.
He used to assume he would die young, though not so much anymore. It's a pretty common thought, especially for any maniacal narcissist," he says, smiling.
And if you live a life with some risk, or have seen people die young, it's easier to understand that could be a possibility."Reaching a safe spot, we pause, and Leto takes in the green- topped mountains and vast, azure sky. Watch My Bakery In Brooklyn Online Facebook.