green-haired, tattooed maniac? A balding fashion scion? A gaunt, gangrenous heroin addict? (Unless you’re a Thirty Seconds to Mars fan, in which case maybe you picture lead singer Leto berating a crowd member.) Even among the ranks of beautiful movie stars who enjoy working incognito — think Charlize Theron in “Monster,” Christian Bale in “The Machinist” and “Vice,” Colin Farrell in “The Batman” — the 50-year-old Leto is in a class by himself in the lengths he’ll go to for his extreme on-screen makeovers.
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 got scared for Jared,” the film’s director, Daniel Espinosa, has said. “He really commits.
You have to watch out for it.”Now that Daniel Day-Lewis has retired, Leto might just be Hollywood’s preeminent shapeshifting Method actor.
Read on for a timeline of his wildest role transformations, and what he did to achieve them. 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 (played by Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend (Marlon Wayans).
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