Oscar-winner Jared Leto hasn’t watched one of his critically acclaimed films in decades. “I never look at them,” Leto said in an interview with news agency AFP. The last film he saw on screen was Requiem for a Dream at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000.
Leto said it was crucial for an actor to be unbiased and unaware of himself. “So I’m doing everything I can not to think about myself from the outside,” said the 50-year-old. “That way, I never repeat myself.”
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Leto now wants to prove his versatility in his first leading role in a blockbuster. In the Marvel film “Morbius” he plays the scientist Michael Morbius, who suffers from a disease that turns him into a vampire.
For him, this film is “something new and different – I like big, funny popcorn films“. But Leto doesn’t want to switch forever, as he told AFP. The Marvel role could “help pay the bills,” after which he could play in other productions again.
Leto became known in the mid-90s through the US series “Welcome to Life”. He later starred in the war film “The Thin Red Line”, the psychological thriller “Fight Club” and the film “American Psycho”. He won the 2014 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as an AIDS-stricken transsexual in Dallas Buyers Club.