{"id":419626,"date":"2022-03-22T04:03:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jared-leto-learned-about-fatphobia-after-putting-on-60-lbs-for-role\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T04:03:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T01:03:34","slug":"jared-leto-learned-about-fatphobia-after-putting-on-60-lbs-for-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jared-leto-learned-about-fatphobia-after-putting-on-60-lbs-for-role\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jared Leto Learned About Fatphobia After Putting On 60 Lbs For Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35e1c923ce8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35e1c923ce8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jared-leto-learned-about-fatphobia-after-putting-on-60-lbs-for-role\/#%E2%80%9CJared_Leto_Learned_About_Fatphobia_After_Putting_On_60_Lbs_For_Role_%E2%80%9C\" >&#8220;Jared Leto Learned About Fatphobia After Putting On 60 Lbs For Role \n&#8220;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CJared_Leto_Learned_About_Fatphobia_After_Putting_On_60_Lbs_For_Role_%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8220;Jared Leto Learned About Fatphobia After Putting On 60 Lbs For Role<br \/>\n&#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"text\">\nHas <strong>Jared Leto<\/strong> learned anything from walking a mile in his characters\u2019 shoes?<\/p>\n<p>The actor is known for going to extreme lengths of a role. Not just in his dubious \u201cmethod acting\u201d stunts (like sending castmates rats), but in his physical transformations. From going rail thin for his <strong>Oscar<\/strong>-winning role in <em>Dallas Buyers Club<\/em> to getting ripped for the upcoming <em>Morbius<\/em> to the entire fat suit\/prosthetics situation in <em>House of Gucci<\/em>, he always commits one way or another.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Khlo\u00e9 Kardashian Responds To Criticism She Causes Body Image Issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you lined up a bunch of Jared Leto characters together, you might not even recognize them all as the same man. Oddly, the incredibly fit <strong>30 Seconds to Mars<\/strong> frontman lamented his base-level youthful good looks in a new interview with <em>Men\u2019s Health<\/em>, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019m not getting movie roles where I play, like, \u2018a rather young-looking old man.\u2019 Maybe I\u2019m doing something wrong\u2014not taking advantage of it enough. It just doesn\u2019t matter. You can be 30 years old and live an amazingly exciting, interesting, fulfilling life, or you can be 60 and having a crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is he saying he wishes he could just play a character who looks like him, at his own age (50)? It\u2019s kind of unclear. But the physical demands of a role don\u2019t matter to him much, anyway. He remarked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m thinking about the heart of the character, the soul, the spirit. Those other things \u2014 it\u2019s the de<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When the interviewer pointed out that he must have been thinking about his characters\u2019 appearance a <em>little<\/em>, considering all the weight gain and weight loss and added muscle mass, he argued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut what\u2019s more important is: How does it change the way you walk? How does it change the way you talk? How does it change the way people treat you? I gained over 60 pounds for a role once, and it was amazing. I remember asking someone for the time in New York and they, like, recoiled. I saw people I knew who didn\u2019t know I was filming and thought I had fallen off the \u2014 I don\u2019t know how to describe it\u2014that I had \u2018not been taking care of myself.\u2019 They took it as a sign of something wrong in my life. It was a really wild thing to experience that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, yeah, dude. This is the kind of stuff larger people \u2014 especially women \u2014 have to deal with all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The role he\u2019s referring to seems to be that of <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>\u2019s murderer <strong>Mark David Chapman<\/strong> for the film <em>Chapter 27<\/em>. That came out in 2008. But despite experiencing fatphobia for himself firsthand, the <em>My So-Called Life<\/em> alum still committed to that fat suit (or similar prosthetics) for <em>House of Gucci<\/em>. The issues with fat suits have been well documented \u2014 and some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong> users previously pointed out that he didn\u2019t even have to wear one to accurately portray <strong>Paolo Gucci<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finding out Jared Leto wore a fatsuit to play a guy who wasn&#8217;t fat is going to rage-change my biology so penicillin will not work <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bZk5DA6SzS\">https:\/\/t.co\/bZk5DA6SzS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 literary agent needing jerk (@rajandelman) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rajandelman\/status\/1464721864211808259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: Lizzo Says She\u2019s \u2018A Body Icon\u2019 While Shutting Down Haters With Powerful Message<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So far, Jared has not squared his personal experience with fatphobia to his personal experience perpetrating it via the fat suit. However, he did explicitly tell <em>Men\u2019s Health<\/em> he has no regrets about any of the roles he\u2019s taken on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo. Come on. I\u2019m gonna be dead soon. Who gives a flying f**k?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well Jared, you may find that many, many people give a f**k about the concerning choices you\u2019ve made as an actor over the years. But if you don\u2019t care about any of it, that\u2019s your prerogative!<\/p>\n<p class=\"image_cite\"><em>[Image via NBC\/MGM\/YouTube]<\/em>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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