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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Jared Leto

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jared Leto is known for his fully-immersive transformations in movies, including Dallas Buyers Club, Suicide Squad and his latest film, The Little Things, which just earned him a Golden Globe nomination. In this week’s "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist talks to the actor about working on that movie alongside one of his heroes, Denzel Washington, and his other career as a rock star in the band 30 Seconds to Mars.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

0:06.4

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

0:09.6

Very excited about this week's guest.

0:11.5

He is Oscar winner Jared Leto, one of the most fascinating guys in Hollywood.

0:16.6

He's starring in a new film called The Little Things, co-stars with a pair of other Oscar

0:21.8

winners, Denzel Washington and Rami Malik.

0:24.6

So he plays a guy called Albert Sparma, who is creepy to say the least.

0:30.5

The question for the two detectives, Denzel and Rami Malik, is he also a serial killer?

0:36.5

Creepy maybe doesn't begin to explain what kind of guy he is.

0:39.3

You'll hear Jared talk about the character.

0:41.8

So it's a thriller.

0:43.5

He's a handyman, Albert Sparma.

0:45.7

If I could paint a visual picture, he's got long, greasy hair.

0:51.1

He had prosthetics for his teeth and his eyes and his nose.

0:55.1

And he just kind of lurks and he's just kind of weird, but that doesn't necessarily

0:59.3

mean he's a serial killer.

1:00.9

So that's sort of the core of this story.

1:03.3

He by the way, was nominated just this week for a Golden Globe Award for that performance

1:08.7

in The Little Things, just as the movie even begins to come out.

1:12.2

So lots to talk about with Jared Leto, including his career also as a rock star.

1:17.4

Thirty seconds to Mars.

1:18.4

It's the band he started with his older brother Shannon.

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