Seuss character was to protect the music video from his celebrity. It wasn't important for me to lay claim to it in that way. To play Rayon, a transgender woman, in his Oscar-winning turn in Dallas Buyers Club , Leto dropped 30 pounds are we sensing a theme here? Just as he's done on most sets, Leto stayed in character the entire time he played Rayon and maintained a strict grooming schedule.
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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano. Not registered? Register here. We only have so much energy. If Leto, 45, has been pissing around up to this point, you worry what he might accomplish when he gets serious. He has spent a career diving head first into roles — as teen idol, oblivion-seeking hedonist, method actor, emo frontman, rock-climber, start-up founder, fashion plate — and always landing on his feet.
His most acclaimed roles arrived after he disregarded all Hollywood counsel and spent four years touring with Thirty Seconds to Mars, the band that he started with his brother, Shannon, back in It stands out among actor side-projects in not being embarrassingly crap, selling 15 million records of pleasingly histrionic arena rock and entering the Guinness World Records for performing shows in one tour.
Leto also serves as chief Instagram muse and confidant to Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele, and managed to pull off a lilac violet dressing gown at its recent cruise collection show. He scales 3,ft cliff faces in Joshua Tree National Park to wind down from this.
And even his tomfoolery is next-level — he once sent some anal beads and a dead pig to Margot Robbie and the rest of his Suicide Squad castmates to get in the zone to play The Joker in the twisted superhero film. You might put his industriousness down to his veganism or his recent disavowal of stimulants.
He mostly credits his artist mother, Constance, who raised Leto and his brother with help from her own parents after their father walked out when Leto was a baby he committed suicide when Leto was eight. His grandfather was in the US Air Force so the family moved around a lot — and Constance later joined various artistic communes. It was really brave of her to do that. The creative path is one that is fraught with imbalance and uncertainty, self-consciousness, fear and doubt.
It was also as a child that he first read Frederich Nietzsche. A great deal of the world thinks that… they may not have as much… authority in their own lives as they do. We are talking by his swimming pool under the shade of a jacaranda tree at his home in the Hollywood Hills. I say home. Leto resides in a 50, sq ft disused Air Force base nestled into the mountains. It was built as an air defence compound during the Second World War and features a deep bomb shelter, weapons vaults and radar station.
Once the Pacific had been made safe from Japanese invaders, it served as a military film studio, producing the public information films that told Americans what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. It was his mother who sent him the link to the property; perhaps it seemed homely to her. In many cases, actors will replicate the external conditions of their character in order to behave more authentically. Extreme practitioners go so far as to starve themselves, abstain from sleep, and isolate themselves from their loved ones.
Actors including Paul Newman, Montgomery Clift, and Jack Nicholson were among the many prominent talents of the second half of the 20th century who sharpened their skills in that school of acting.
He seemed to live in the realistic, down-and-dirty world of his characters. He was brash, bold, and brimming with machismo. Brando never went to the extremes of those who came after him, but his career and outlook provide the template for those who see themselves as his successors.
Beyond his obsessive dedication to the form, Brando was self-deprecating about his choice of career. By going method, a performer can signal that he works for his art; he can make his labor visible. This is just not something to be quite as proud of as many people would have you believe. In his post- Titanic career, DiCaprio has been outspoken about wanting to be viewed as a real artist rather than as just an object of female desire.
As of late he has embodied, more than anyone else, the idea of acting as an endurance test as David Sims has written for The Atlantic. This often leads to performances that feel far too studied, in which every choice seems obvious. He ate wild bison liver despite being vegetarian, put his life on the line wading into freezing rivers, and even slept in an animal carcass.
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