I'm a 'cheagan. Then I'm a 'cheagan. A lot of people don't know this, but I went to art school. I started when I was really young, about years old.
I was studying figurative painting and I wanted to be a fine artist. That was really what I thought I would do with my life. And then I was taking a photography class, a sculpting class, and of course a pottery class which is a must.
I recommend highly, it's always a fun class. But then I took and film class and that was it. I was obsessed. You know, years ago I was experimenting, exploring, learning a lot about myself and about life.
I would go back for the world, you know? Just thinking about age and getting older. I mean, it's a wonderful thing to leave the past behind and move forward toward new adventures. I feel like there are so many things in my life that I'm beginning again. I feel like I'm at a starting point. At least I've given you an honest interview. Not some fucking pre-canned actor bullshit. For some reason, I locked eyes with Robert De Niro at the beginning of my speech and he's looking at me like, 'you're screwing this up kid.
I'm going to put my eyes back over at my mom. So, I saw on her face a lot of love and pride and I really just told the truth. When you have those moments, you can make a choice to take that light that's shining on you and reflect it back on other people that are important to you, and other things, and that's what I did. I was really glad that I was able to get up there and at least my brain worked enough so that I could spit out the words that I wanted to say.
It certainly hurt. The only ways it helped is the things I learned as a creative person making films. You know, that I was able to apply work ethic or problem solving.
Whatever you learn in one area of life you apply it to the other. So, that's where it helped was behind the scenes. But it never helped. It was always a distraction and I think we had to dig ourselves out of a hole, but that's okay.
Everybody has their cross to bear and we have ours. We've had more success than we've ever dreamed, so it's hard to complain. I would think it would be that way for every artist and their audience around the world, but I guess it's not because it's always pointed at that it's unique and different. And that's a nice thing. But we really just do what seems to make sense for us, and I think we have a lot of curiosity and made a music video and interview fans because I'm interested.
There's really no other motivation behind it. You know, to finally have success after groveling and working so hard for so many years, getting our asses kicked. To finally break through was a little bittersweet in some ways.
We are still incredibly grateful for the success and would have paid to have the success, and in some ways we did. But it wasn't just specific to Thirty Seconds to Mars. It's really the way the industry works in general, so we went to war. We went to war with a standard, with an industry, with a practice, and we said that this isn't okay.
And we were willing to fight in order to make it better and we did that. We're not going to play this game anymore.
They slapped us with a lawsuit, we battled it out, and made a better deal for ourselves and a better life for ourselves. This is not someone who wants to play dress up, and if you want that then you should call somebody else because I'm not interested in that. I don't know how to do that. Isn't that the problem? I just like it all. I appreciate women and all of their infinite, fascinating features. I may have got down to or pounds , or something.
I'm a healthy lbs. When you lose weight like that it's a great tool. It changes the way that you walk, the way you talk, the way you think, the way you feel, the way people treat you. It changes everything about who you are. I was in which the girls remember, was not too easy on the heel. But I was a size 12 and, uh, I was a natural. I gotta say, in the heel department. The waxing of the body was interesting and the heels were interesting. The tights were kind of tough.
I don't know why. Maybe because I was so skinny But they cut off my circulation sometimes. I had to wear two pairs to cover tattoos on my legs, and I found the tights to be a little annoying. And, in fact, the script was sent to me 15 years ago. It was a different script at that time, but it took about 20 years for the script to get made.
I hadn't made a film in almost 6 years and we were touring excellently with Thirty Seconds to Mars, and the band had grown beyond any expectations that we ever had.
We were making albums and just really busy, so there wasn't a lot of time to make films. When you make a film, I think some people don't understand it takes months and months and months because there's a preparation involved. You have to clear your schedule, so it's pretty time consuming. I didn't have a very glamorous beginning. You know, I always thought I would be a visual artist.
I went to art school, but at some point I fell in love with film and I thought that I would get a job as a director if I got a job as an actor first. That was my plan. You know, when you make a film there's a lot going on. Sometimes a couple hundred people running around on set. So for me staying in character is just a way to be really focused and committed. You know, just because we make music doesn't mean we owe anybody anything either, but I think we have a genuine interest and curiosity in people and the people that have supported us.
That we never wanted to be pigeonholed in one genre or style. Sometimes people don't realize it. But it's nice to break boundaries. What I get to do is make things and share it with the world. That's an incredible gift. I grew up very, very poor. I was born in Louisiana to a single mother who was years old, had two kids.
Pregnant the first time when she'd just turned High school dropout. We had a very tumultuous childhood and adolescence and my brother and I are lucky that we're not in jail, to tell you the truth. Most of our family, you either went into the military or you went to prison. Sometimes both, that was the escape. You know, I think I'm one of the few people in my family that actually graduated from high school. I was just happy to have a job. That meant freedom to me. The weed could have paid better than the dishwashing, but the problem is getting high on your own supply and breaking that golden rule.
Which is kind of nice! You know? And I also say we're getting so old that when we have kids they're going to come out and instead of saying "dad" they're going to go, "grandpa. I know people who were older when they had kids and I think that's a really great thing. My mom was super young when she had kids and that was great too, so it really just depends on the person.
Auditioning is probably akin to boiling your own testicles in vegan butter, or sawing off your butt lip and chewing on it like it's tobacco. That's another thing you could compare to auditioning. It's like there's this family around the world that's really a part of this, of which we're a part of. And they've joined us in this journey and made this a really wonderful and richer experience.
It's more how much you're going to deal with and how right do they make it. How much success do you have. But virtually, in my opinion, all artists get screwed. If you're smart, you can be part of that small minority that doesn't get screwed.
For the record, I'm not anti-label. I love a record company and don't want to be a record company. I love a group of people around the world helping us to bring our vision to the globe, and we need the help and support. We seem to live in a world right now that seems to want to be anesthetized. That seems to want to just feel one thing. It's this slight sedation. It's not just music, either. You see it in film. It's the culture. Maybe people just want to escape.
It's about pushing your limits. Pushing limits in general. It's about human potential and about dreams. That's interests me much more than any kind of science-fiction element. We stand onstage and we look at an audience that we're incredibly proud to be in front of.
A vibrant audience of all kinds of ages, shapes, and sizes and gender. You'd expect because Shannon's so handsome that it would be mostly females there, but if you go to our shows I think that's a testament to the music and not just good looks. We Thirty Seconds to Mars would rather have 1, committed fans than a million people that just basically want to see what shoes you're wearing that day. To premiere our song from this new album.
And not just about just the song, but starting this new chapter of our lives. This new tour, this new album, this new song, new video And celebrating by sending a piece of our work up into this new territory. You do not have the right to dictate who likes what you do and you shouldn't.
It's like a painting that hangs on the wall at a museum. It doesn't matter if a complete dickhead walks up and is moved by it, or the sweetest grandma in the world.
I'm sure we have both of those. In fact, I know we do at our shows. In fact, our audience surprises us. Especially how it's changed over the years and how it's grown up. I started early because I didn't want to get off the road and have the pressure of having to follow up the previous album. I'm really glad I did that because by the time we were off the road, I had 14 songs and then I went to India. India was the very first post-tour recording experience and it was unforgettable.
A lot of people don't know this. They think, oh he was some big rich famous actor. You know, I made art movies for the most part. I never took a payday. I never had a ton of cash. But money besides the point, we finally had success which we were happy to have, regardless of if we ever made any money. But what we found out is, we sold 3. We started to look into it and were flabbergasted by what we found.
She wanted to do something better for her children. She was a dreamer, she was a worker. She still is. So I think the biggest inspiration and the biggest lessons she taught me was to dream and then, to do the work that it takes to make dreams a reality. There are negative people out there. I can't worry about those people. The year-old kid in me would probably say, 'Fuck you,' but the grown-up just kinda laughs and doesn't pay attention to it.
If you have a certain amount of success, people throw stones. It's all part of the Tall Poppy Syndrome, but whether you're an athlete or an explorer, if you push and challenge yourself and your dreams, there are always going to be people out there that are gonna wanna talk about other people that are living dreams and challenges. If they think they're doing me a favor they should probably just turn the attention on themselves and think about how they can do a better job for themselves and their life.
I fail enough and I beat myself up enough. I don't need anybody else to do it for me. It's kind of a simple thing and it's continued, really out of a sense of fun. You know, I feel guilty if I think about kicking him out of a job or something.
I don't know what that's all about. Because I've done that in other places a lot of people don't know about, where I've put other names and given them credit for positions of importance.
That along with a new album comes a new song, comes a new Bartholomew Cubbins film. I always picture him off smoking crack in the streets of Amsterdam, you know, just barely able to keep it together.
And just a complete prick. It's not often the cleanest choice or the safest choice or the choice that's going to make everybody else happy.
I listened to myself and maybe other people I like working with or that I care about, like my brother. And made decisions based on what would be the best for the work, for me, for us.
I think that's a pretty good way to operate; I would recommend it. It's been, at times, uncertain. Which is really good and also kept me terrified. Because safety, doing what is thought to be the 'right' next move, feels good.
There's a big world out there. There's a lot to explore. Some people have fun doing it into their 80s or 90s and there's great examples of directors and actors doing wonderful work as they're older, but I don't think that I would. But what the fuck do I know? I have no idea. I think it would be interesting to explore other avenues. When I was a kid I would often stand up to people, and I think that people had a sense that even though I was skinny and small, and I certainly wasn't the toughest kid on the block, I wasn't going to let you get away with it.
There's something to that. To standing up for yourself and saying, 'you know what? I found that to be true a lot of times. You know, as a kid who was pretty different himself, I think what I would tell people who are individuals out there is you're the ones who inherit the Earth.
Believe in yourself and be patient, and be as different as you want to be. You have every right to do that. It may be difficult and lonely at times, but there is no greater privilege than owning yourself.
You know what I've learned about women? I know absolutely nothing about women. The older I get, it's just people. I just see people. It's just how things are. I don't think there's a definitive decision that I've made. You never know, someone could always come up to a show and give me a little surprise visit. What an incredible surprise that would be! For people out there who have picked on other people and have bullied, it's never too late just to stop and be like, you know I'm tired of being the asshole here.
Today I'm going to start being someone else. I don't visit places that are known hangouts and places where you would be photographed. It's not even like I'm purposefully avoiding it for that reason.
I just don't go to there. I had some other prosthetics. We tried about 30 different wigs. And some of them were so ridiculous that I think I scared everyone. Next up for Leto? Fighting for a comeback, Golden Globes group hires a chief diversity officer. Company Town. There are coworkers from hell—and then there's Jared Leto. The Suicide Squad actor's techniques for staying in character have been making headlines for months.
Known for going Method—fully immersing himself in a character, even off-set—Leto might have been expected to take on some of the Joker's qualities, but Sending your co-stars anal beads?
You'll forgive us for insisting that Leto take the office orientation program more than once before we let him share our cubicle. But when you watch Leto's haunted, inhabited performances in movies that range from Requiem for a Dream all the way to this week's Suicide Squad , his Method acting ways start to make more sense, even if they still have you saying, "He did…what?
With The Joker being one of modern film's most famously replicated characters—Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger have both played the iconic role—it's no surprise Leto felt the need to go deep to stand out. But staying in character for the entire shoot meant castmates bore the brunt of his Method ways. Leto sent Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn a love letter in a box with a live black rat ; co-star Will Smith received an envelope full of bullets.
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As Will Smith told Beats 1 radio, Leto was so in character as The Joker that he never once broke from his role , even after the cameras were off. We worked together for six months and we've never exchanged a word outside of 'Action!
So, the first time I see him will be 'Hey, Jared. What's up? Snyder already had a history devised in his head. Other than losing his parents, it was probably the most significant personal injury to his life. Is there tattoo removal in the apocalypse? You can interpret that to mean: Snyder just liked it better this way. Join Vanity Fair to receive full access to VF.
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