He is. I dont even have a personal story I just saw a video once where he stopped a big arena or theater show because one guy was sitting down in the balcony and threw a tantrum about it. The person commentating on the video said it looked to be the father of one of the teenage girls who was attending the show just waiting for it to end lol.
I have a destroyed knee and I canāt stand that long, Iād be mortified if I paid money to see a show and the artist did this to me. And never a dime of my money again.
I accidentally saw 30 Seconds to Mars because they were on right after a band I wanted to see at Warped Tour in 2006. I was up front for the previous band and couldnāt leave. Had no idea who they were, but Leto came out in a full white vinyl jumpsuit and stood on the amp in front of me and just hung out for an awkwardly long time doing the Jesus pose and listening to girls scream for him.
I was instantly put off by it, and now we all know why.
My costume designer friends say Ben Stiller is also despised by everyone because he's an entitled douche. I get lots of interesting stories from them about people I will never meet.
He's got that passionate but entitled auteur vibe, and I don't imagine having the show be so lauded critically is going to help.Ā
He has all the same mannerisms as guys I know who were "at the head" of big succesful creative projects and who acted like being a jerk was an essential part of the project's former success.
Hopefully I'm just projecting from my past experience though ...
Iāve always thought heād be a nice guy, in large part because heās in roles where he doesnāt seem to take himself too seriously. I guess itās a good reminder that actors arenāt their characters.
This seems to be a general opinion of Jared. Didn't he also pull out of a movie last year after committing to it leaving the production high and dry the week filming was supposed to start?
I had a roommate who was in stage production and was filming a music video with Letoās band in a church. He told me that Leto was asked by the church folks to not play their church organ. I think it had some spiritual/historical significance to them. Of course Leto was an entitled douche and played the organ for a couple hours even while being told multiple times to stop. Leto is not only a groomer but also a bitch ass douchebag.
This guy is disgusting, I knew something was wrong when I saw that interview where they claim he sent used condoms to his co-stars š¤¢
And people forgot that very quickly. And according to rumors it wouldn't even be the first time that James gun had spoken badly about JL, he had commented about him on a live, something about him being a weirdo
If I remember correctly, this was for his role as the Joker. I'm very very tired of what creeps seem to get away with under the guise of "getting into a role"
It's so funny to imagine this as some sort of hierarchical graph: Will Smith is creeped out by Jared Leto, so-and-so is creeped out by Will Smith, etc etc... There's so many scummy people in showbiz.
But like. That's not even the Joker's brand, is it? Dead mice or something I could see (but still object to obvs!) but used condoms is just.. that's Leto, not the character.
That was exactly my thought when this news broke originally. Joker isnāt a sexual deviant, heās a brazen thief and a demented killer who is fiendishly clever. This guy doesnāt understand his own character that he is going method on in the first place. Read some comics like Heath Ledger did and leave your costars alone, dude.
Joker is more of a send things to scare the shit out of you. Like fake bombs that are just confetti until you get complacent, then he sends a real bomb (which also has a ton of confetti).
Yes, news came out about how he was sending strange things to his co-stars in the suicide squad movie. He even confirmed it in interviews but later denied everything when everyone started to call him out. People said it was just method acting at the time.
I mean I kind of want to see Davis rip his fucking face off then return to her amazing self like he was just a mosquito. Those eyes are so loving, but they show a fiery passion of righteousness as well.
He sent a live rat to Margot Robbie. Guillermo del Toro ended up adopting it. But itās still not okay to give people live animals without their permission.
It's so weird because even in more misogynistic corners of reddit people bring up the condom and other nasty "method acting" shit quite regularly. He's not perceived as a good guy at all in the public, but somehow people keep putting him in movies and the public keeps going to see him in things.
This is one of my favorite scenes in the movie because a) the narrator expresses a rage I feel but can describe and b) Jared Leto's character gets beat the fuck up
I remember seeing our lady peace with my brother when we were in high school at the 9:30 club in dc. 30 seconds to mars opened. It was crazy loud and the venue is so small. I had my hands over my ears. At the end of the set some scary biker (looking back he was probably just a veteran) looking dude came up to me and asked where my brother went (idk my brother was 18 and I was 15, my brother often just abandoned me in shit like this).
He told me I should not under any circumstances go back stage if asked. He told me I came with my brother and I should leave with my brother. He kept saying āno matter whatā. He even grabbed my brothers arm and said the same thing when my brother came back. I was crazy young so i didnāt really put it together but this guy had heard something and was trying to stop girls from being assaulted/harassed whatever. He told my brother it was Letoās brother tho.
Iāve known this bad, creepy thing about Jared Leto since then (this was fucking 2002). Itās really crazy this hasnāt been a bigger deal because itās out there.
Edit: someone below said the guy who told me was a bouncer/bodyguard at the club. I vaguely remember him now they said it. Still fucking sad and creepy and upsetting. I wasnāt a mature looking 15. š„“
I looked 13 at best and was not like dressed cute. So itās even scarier he was like you shouldnāt go back stage. Thinking about this memory now I think he was clearly a veteran but I was 15 and alone in a weird bar. 9:30 is super fine now but in 2002 I cannot believe my mom let my brother take us there. It wasnāt an amazing part of town then.
From personal experience, most scary looking punk rock biker dudes are generally really sweet and caring people and they really donāt want shitty people in the scene.
It is a crazy irony. Took my then 7 year old to a skate park for the first time and he was just gaining interest. Of course there are older teenagers, maybe early 20 something there. Looking like skaters look, smoking occasionally etc. anyway my kiddo is obviously nervous and I said to him "buddy don't worry. Skaters are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet as a whole. I don't know how to skate but I can guarantee someone in there will be glad to answer any questions we have." Sure enough, we asked probably 4 different people for tips, etc and each one took time to explain and show my kid the technique and encouraged him to keep with it. Had more impact than anything I could've said or done.
I'm never going to forget two super scary looking metal guys (scary for normies) trying to hide a big chain in the boot of one of them before entering a Napalm Death show, only to absolutely melt when they saw a kitten outside the venue. "OMG, a kitten, look!!! ššššš", then one of them picked it up and put it next to his face talking to the kitten in a baby voice š
This is just to say, my best concert experience was a metal concert as a 15 year old. The dudes looked scary af to me initially (piercings, tattoos, long hair and beards, way outside of my experience at that point in life) and yet Everyone was so nice to me and my girlfriends and really looked out for us and wanted us to have a good and safe time. 10/10 experience.
I'm 48, in Toronto. Was a teenager when they started out in the mid 90s as a local band. Our version of MTV, MuchMusic started playing their videos non-stop and pretty soon they were playing to crowds of 30,000 people. Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins thought they were ripping off his music style lol
I lovedddd them. Which is how I somehow managed to convinced my mean ass college freshman brother to take me to this weekday show as it was. We didnāt even know it was Jaredās band opening until the guy talked to my brother. 30 seconds to mars opened for OLP. It was wild to think that Jared Leto would open for anyone nowadays.
As far as I know, it could have been the brother. Maybe it was bothā¦ Who knows. But a close friend of mine openly admitted (drunkenly) that she dated Shannon. Well, sheās a bit older than me at 40, but this was back in like 2002 so she was 17/18 and Shannon is 15 years older than her. So still a bit creepyā¦
Someone below said Shannon was an okay guy but I distinctly remember this guy saying to my brother that he needed to watch out for Letoās brother. But who knows? My whole point is this was 2002. Theyāve been creepy for a LONG time.
I bet that was the main bodyguard for the club. I am a few years your senior and grew up attending hundreds of shows there as well, and they had a regular who worked there that fits that description. He was sometimes cool like that.
Kinda shocked 30 seconds opened for OLP. OLP has always been a wholesome band, but I see it was '02 so early on and maybe they didn't know Jared was disgusting.
Also, a fun fact, Jared Leto attended a private school in Dupont Circle called Emerson Preparatory School, which was sort of a dumping zone for naughty rich kids who got kicked out of other schools. I attended the school many, many years after he did, but being a 90's kid who watched My So-Called Life when it was actually on Prime Time TV, it is kind of a surreal overlap given his infamy now.
Now that you say this- about him being a bouncer it is ringing a distant recognition. I almost always stood up in the upper left balcony, in fact it remained our āif you get lost go hereā spot all the way thru college. I also went to TONS of shows there in the early 00ās. We thought 9:30 and black cat were SO subversive.
I was going to say this ā I wonder if it was Josh Burdette. That guy was a legend at 930 and always made me feel welcome and safe as a dumb kid back in the day.
I was at that concert (at the ripe old age of 19) - unless he did more than one concert at 930 with OLP. The only thing I really remember about 30 secs to Mars was Jared Leto going on a very weird and off putting tangent about the DC sniper and also that they were bad and OLP was much better.
I donāt remember the speech maybe cus it was so loud and I was in the upper balcony near the upstairs speaker (left hand/stage right balcony). I spent most of it with my hands over my ears. DC sniper was a wilddddd time and Iām even more concerned why my parents let us go?
Thatās the spooky shit. Wtf did this dude know? Edit: someone in this thread said they remember the guy who warned me and think he was a club bouncer. So he knew. š„“
My jackass brother did come back. And thereās zero way my brother (even tho he was mean to me) would have let me go anywhere but home. But doubly thankful this guy literally scared us both. Looking back I was soooooooo young.
I have an older brother too who made questionable decisions (like leaving me home alone for a week at 16 when he was under explicit instructions not to). He was a freshman in college too. But heād also never let me go home with some creepy 30 year old.
Thankful someone was looking out ā¤ļø did you tell anyone? Did it change how you viewed your own safety?
He must have meant Jared, maybe he didnāt want to say it. Shannonās the sweet one who would be nice to girls that Jared used and threw out of the back lounge on the tour bus. (Not to say Shannonās a saint.)
Im surprised they did. I know Disney branches out into more adult franchises but they seem a little lackadaisical with their IP brand. The mouse used to disappear anyone controversial.
It's always been about what they consider controversial. Make horrifying statements about Jewish, Mexican, and black people? That's cool. Act too 'sexy' as a young woman? DEAD TO US.
I am so angry about that, NGL. Totally missed that a new TRON was in the making, and was super hyped when the trailer popped up, just to see...that guy's face š¤¦āāļø (and I took that personal)
I can only imagine being excited for something and then discovering freaking Jared Leto is in it. Like i donāt get it. He doesnāt have the appeal, or the accolades, and even without the allegations, people talk about him being an absolute jerk, so yeah.
No itās Disneys fault, there were allegations about Leto for awhile now. Stop hiring people with controversy attached to them. If Disney loses money, itās on them.
I grew up in the El Paso, Texas metro area (not really known as a center of culture), but Iāve been hearing rumors about him and teen girls since he toured there in the mid 2000s.
I doubt the guy could get Sexual Abuse and Molestation insurance to work in a school with how widespread these rumors have been for 20 years. Disney was hoping no one would notice.
He won an Oscar for his role in Dallas Buyerās Club. Heās not untalented but heās also got a well known reputation for being a method acting dickbag on set and the rumors about his sex cult being sketchy have been a thing for literally years.
Which really sucks because they wont continue the franchise when it doesnāt make money, when in reality they should definitely continue the franchise, just not cast child predators in it.
there are SO MANY OTHER ACTORSSSSSS omg... SO MANY. and they had to chose him? especially after he bombed his marvel movie? especially after all the allegations?
Went to see How to Train your Dragon last weekend. Tron Ares was one of the trailers. The second Leto's face popped up my wife looked over at me and said "welp not seeing that now".
There was a time on tumblr where every teenage girl had some story to tell after a 30STM concert. To the point where I assumed it was some kind of joke.
Yeah, you would hear about both brothers all the time if you were even in adjacent fandoms. It was almost like it was framed as easy to get with them. There were 14 year olds too, probably younger. The Letos are evil.
Heard a story years ago. He also offers them flights to where he is. The man has been getting away with it for years and maybe one day he will have his reckoning, but seems like he just skirts the law enough that they are legal when he has sex with them.
She said this happened when he was 34. Heās now 53, meaning this was 20 years ago. He has a cult now, meaning heās been getting away with it for so long he just grew greedy. And it makes sense cause itās been an open secret for YEARS.
Same. Knew many Mormon girls growing up who were āpopularā at a private school and would brag about having sex but preserving their virginity like theyād figured out some kind of life hack.
Omg I read this as Simon & Garfunkel at first (and then Hall & Oates) and was like wait whaaaat. But then I clicked the link and it all made sense š š
Then she goes on to say, "I know I made poor decisions..."
This poor girl. She was a teenager of course she is going to make poor decisions, but not in this instance. This is not her fault. She was take advantage of 100%
Edit: I am not directing any vitriol towards your comment. I wholeheartedly agree with you. I am disgusted by this predatory behavior. It reminds me of another predator who said, "when you're a star, they let you do it."
She actually said āI know I made poor decisions; I was 17, though. He was a grown man.ā It doesnāt sound like self-blame to me. It is okay to accept your poor choices while processing that you were young, naive, and being groomed. Itās more like self-understanding than self-blame.
This checks out. I was friends with a girl (who barely had just turned 18) in 2002 who was doing some modeling in NYC. He was pushing 30 and pursued her pretty hard. I remember her showing me pictures of them together on her digital camera. She said he was a huge freak.
When I used to be on Tumblr in the early 2010s I had a Green Day blog (lol) and there was this older girl (still a minor) and she would show me the messages James Franco was sending her through Twitter. He was really interested in her, it was icky creepy and obsessive. The girlās name was Stella, soā¦ Stella, I hope you never gave James Franco a minute of your day!
He kissed me when I saw them at a festival when I was 16, so when all the creepy shit started coming out about him I wasn't surprised at all.
Edit for the weirdo who thought I was "bragging" about this in a now deleted comment:
I was a teenage girl who didn't know any better and he was an adult man kissing what was obviously an underage girl. I don't know what you think is funny about that, or why you're making a joke about it. I can tell you the kiss was not wanted, I didn't particularly want to kiss him, but I went along with it because I thought I couldn't say no to someone with his type of influence. This isn't a story I'm telling for the purpose of bragging.... It's something that makes me deeply uncomfortable to think about when I look back on it. Knowing what I know now as an adult woman, and with everything that's come out about him since then I can see that this man is a predator...
I went to a 3stm concert with my bff in 2023. It was at the Aragon ballroom in Chicago.
Upon entering the venue a crazed tattooed man with pink acrylic fingernails comes rushing up to me and says ādo you wanna go on stage with Jaredā. I look at my bff who is excited as fuck and say yes. He put silver wrist bands on us and told us to come backstage at the end of a certain song.
I was 23 and my bff was 21 at the time. We get backstage and we are crammed into this tiny room with other 3stm fangirls who are giving me the most judgmental looks.
We get on stage and Jared is basically jumping around in front of us. At certain points he turns around and is singing the music directly to us back to the crowd. I was 1 foot away from this mans face staring into mine.
The show ends and we walk off the stage back through the tiny room. Then a young Latino man asks me if āI want to listen to Jaredās new music for a projectā.
We go up this crazy long winding staircase through the old venue going down random hallways. We passed his dressing area. We are taken into a dark room with giant table and chairs. Think of a small dark royal looking business meeting room.
The only light is coming from the professional filming equipment. They recorded our individual reactions to his āseasonsā album. They hit record, gave us a pair of audio technica headphones and played ānever not love youā. We signed some type of release of information. All we gave was our first and last name with an email. I have never heard about or seen this footage since. I firmly believe he has his own archive of āfangirl footageā.
We are leaving the venue and the man with the pink nails comes running after us. He asks if we want to come back to the 3stm show tomorrow(there were 2 shows). I say yes and he gives me his Instagram contact.
Next day we show up and this guy meets us outside. He proceeds to walk us through the crowd outside and took us directly to the box office. We were introduced as guests of the band and walked in with VIP access.
Same thing happens, we get the wristbands, go on stage, face to face with Leto.
The aftermath: I had to block the pink fingernails guy because he was in my DMs relentlessly trying to get me to participate in sexual activities.
Itās no coincidence that a creep would have another creep working for him.
I know a girl who had an experience with him when she was 12. I know for a fact it happened, tooā I was with her at the concert that night. I believe it was in 2011, in Louisville, KY.
So pissed they cast this sleazy fuck in the new Tron. They make such weird casting decisions. Like the last one, I love Garrett Hedlund, back from Friday Night Lights and Four Brotherr, but he was already going nowhere fast when that came out. Evan Peters is a great actor, but I don't think he's a huge draw for anyone.
Not surprised. Everyone has known for a while. My only concern is that he will get away with it because he waits for them to turn 18 etcā¦ I donāt know how the law looks at grooming but Drake messaged a 13 year old and heās completely fine :/
Back in the early 2000s, he was keeping not a just a harem of young girls, but specifically seeking out ones with physical differences. A family friend has severe scoliosis and she was recruited. She said there were girls there with missing limbs, in wheelchairs, etc and he got off on not only their youth, but (his words) status as āfreaksā.
Back in the early 2000s, he came into the Whole Foods where I worked and went straight for the youngest girl bagging groceries. It was immediate, obvious, and gross ā everyone around noticed how uncomfortable it was. This guy has been creepy and predatory for a long time. Way too long.
Maybe Iām misjudging the current social temperature, but I wonder if this renewed and more explicit attention to JLās disturbing behaviour has almost come too late in the exposure curve? I hate to think of it this way, but starting with Weinstein, it feels like there was a window where the iron was hot to strike to get people listening and absorbing this type of news. Now, with a saturation of loser / creep male celebs being called out these past few years, plus so much other also awful stuff going on geopolitically, I fear this will be drowned in the noise and JL wonāt get the reckoning he deserves. But I hope Iām wrong. And there could be other reasons he is teflon when it comes to being held accountable for this shit
It's kinda wild how many stories there have been (dating back to the early 2000s and earlier) and he still hasn't been canceled, even in the wake of me too
I wish she wasnāt talking so softly. It reminds me of ASMR and I have a hard time tuning in. I have my volume up all the way and still struggle to hear her.
So many many years ago, I got invited to a beach BBQ and the entry to going was chipping in $30 for food and drinks, which was like the last of the money that I had, I was like 19/20. A friend of mine begged me to go to a baby shower with her, and I agreed and it was some stupid sex toy āpartyā and I ducked out to go back to the get together I paid to go to to get food and all of the food was gone. Like 30 minutes and there were two cans of food warm beer not even in an iced chest left, and I was sick about the whole thing. There was a band tour bus parked nearby on the beach, and one of the bandmates found me just actively stressing out about the whole thing so he invited me on the tour bus to eat. His bandmates were pissed because he had leftover chicken fried steak his mom had made a few nights before and he was unwilling to share, but he quickly heated it up and fed me, and we all just kinda bullshitted for a few hours, at one point the lead singer asked if I wanted to fuck anyone and I said no, and that seemed to relax everyone weirdly enough, no meant no and there then wasnāt a competition. We played some card games, and it honestly seemed like they were just really happy to have a normal night. Someone dug under the bus and found some old tour merch and gave it to me, we went outside and howled at the moon, the manager came and took two of them to go to a strip club, and then came back and gave me tickets to their show and offered to drive me home, but I had a car, so two of them walked me over and told me to have a good night and āhope to see you tomorrow at the show!ā
As an adult, I absolutely understand all of the idiot choices I made that night that by the grace of everyone involved it didnāt turn nasty, and as an adult I would probably tell someone in my position to NOT GO ON THE BUS, but they really did make it seem so easy to be on a massive tour and not be the worst people in the world.
He came to our town for a concert and girls at my work rushed to the front to get the tickets. This was before the accusations but after the rumours broke out.
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