Jared Leto
Jared Leto
Jared Joseph Letois an American actor, singer-songwriter, and director. After starting his career with television appearances in the early 1990s, Leto achieved recognition for his role as Jordan Catalano on the television series My So-Called Life. He made his film debut in How to Make an American Quiltand received critical praise for his performance in Prefontaine. Leto played supporting roles in The Thin Red Line, Fight Cluband American Psycho, as well as the lead role in Urban Legend, and earned...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 December 1971
CityBossier City, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I Lived on the street when i was a kid, i wasn’t even at school, so i had a whole different set of experiences for those formative years. I was gone… i was in a very precarious place when i was younger.
Well, the experience for me making a film is the most profound one. I really don’t have any business watching the movie so much. Maybe I could watch it for entertainment purposes, but you have so little input and control of the final product once you’re done that I feel like I just would rather leave it alone. It kind of leaves me in a place where every film I do, I’m kind of having to reinvent and figure out how to start again fresh, and hopefully not repeat myself.
Don't you just want to make something that lives forever? Something that's phenomenal, something that's great, something that's undeniable? That touches the core of every person that hears it?
My coolest job was when I was 12 and I was a dishwasher at the Three Pigs Bar-B-Que for $2.50 an hour. All the fleabags and stoners worked there, so that’s where I wanted to be.
High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’
It was great growing up a nomad. To this day I still love hiking and back packing.
Don't ask for anyone's permission to follow your dreams
All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.
One of the reasons I moved away from painting was because I eventually discovered that I wanted to deal more with motion, time, and performance - and that became a much bigger part of my life both as an actor and as a musician and someone who goes on stage and travels around the world and works on productions.
I never really expected "Hurricane" to be censored and banned around the world, but I think the good thing that came from it was that it created a dialogue, a conversation, a debate and a discussion. And that's a great thing. It brought all of us together in a unique way. And it made us look a little deeper in ourselves. I think it's a good thing.
Professionally, I don't necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won't be able to have fun and express yourself.
Louisiana is a place that you escape, not a place that you leave.
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.
We want to play whatever you want to hear. We're here for you, Toledo.