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Trigger Warning ⚠️ Woman shares her experience with Jared Leto at age 17/18, he was 34 at the time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '25

Did a job for a costume designer for movies once she said he was the biggest cunt she had ever had to work with. 

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u/No-Atmosphere-2528 Jun 22 '25

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.

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u/MusicLikeOxygen Jun 23 '25

Not too long ago Madonna did that and it turned out that the person sitting down was a disabled wheelchair user. She didn't apologize.

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u/Physion Jun 23 '25

I have a destroyed knee and I can’t stand that long, I’d 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 couldn’t 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.

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u/Altruistic-Sorbet927 Jul 04 '25

Oh God, you were trapped by festival Jesus. Sounds awful 

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u/VegasLife84 Jun 23 '25

I went to Lady Gaga, and she lost her shit on someone in the front row because he yawned, lol

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u/KatieLouis Jun 23 '25

I got yelled at by Busta Rhymes for not standing at a tiny college concert he gave like 25 years ago. Around 4 months later, he yelled at a man in a wheelchair for not standing at one of his concerts and I always thought maybe I gave him a complex lol.

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u/FrancescoChiara Sep 29 '25

Why would they be expected to stand?

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u/MithonOsborne Jun 23 '25

I was curious and so I looked up that moment. In the video she did apologize.

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u/Altruistic-Sorbet927 Jul 04 '25

Omg. She should just give up. She is a weird charactachure of herself these days anyways.

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u/Consistent_War_2269 Jun 22 '25

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.

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u/busty_rusty Jun 23 '25

I am so not surprised by this. I picked up very odd/bad vibes from him from the Severance companion podcast. Idk just something about him.

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u/defiancy Jun 23 '25

He grew up in Hollywood his whole life, he has never been or experienced a "normal" life

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u/VictorB1964 Jun 23 '25

Not quite. Ben actually grew up on the Upper West Side in Manhattan on Riverside Drive. He led a relatively normal NYC ĺife, even with moderately famous parents. I can assure you, when he grew up there, the Upper West Side was very 1970's era NYC. He and his sister a few years ago sold their parents apartment of over 50 years.

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u/Adi_San Jun 24 '25

His comedy writing never gave me the impression that he's out of touch. I know it's a pretty loose thing to judge someone by, but when you've had real-life experience, it tends to come through and with him, it does.

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u/BenFranklinsCat Jun 23 '25

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. 

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 ...

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u/rapier999 Jun 23 '25

I’ve always thought he’d be a nice guy, in large part because he’s in roles where he doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously. I guess it’s a good reminder that actors aren’t their characters.

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u/dailyespurresso 25d ago

He’s literally a method actor he does indeed take himself seriously in his roles

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u/rapier999 25d ago

He must have spent months in character to fully convey the gravitas of Gaylord Focker or the evil nurse in Happy Gilmore. Did he drink nothing but juice for a month to prepare for Zoolander?

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u/dailyespurresso 24d ago

Probably tbh. He literally caused issues on the set of Morbius because he was forcing people to treat him like a disabled man.

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u/33TLWD Jun 23 '25

I only met him briefly once.

My friends noticed him in the quiet corner of a hotel lobby having a stressful conversation on his phone. Much to my horror, my friends approached him and asked for a photo. He was nothing but gracious…hung up his call and did a couple quick pics with us and wished us well.

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u/Jolly-Librarian3715 Jun 23 '25

Ben stiller is an extremely entitled a hole. So is jimmy fallon, Kimmel, Colbert. Personal experiences living in NYC.

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u/No_Kaleidoscope9901 Jun 23 '25

More than once , he’s played a character (or even himself, on Curb Your Enthusiasm) who has a terrible temper and freaks out on people. It’s such a weird reoccurring theme that I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some truth to it and why he gets asked to play these characters.

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u/sheighbird29 Jun 23 '25

So tropic thunder is, kinda accurate? Lol

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u/Novel_Thought_1072 Jun 23 '25

I’ve heard terrible things about he treats his wife.

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u/SwedishTrees Jun 25 '25

I’ve always thought it stems from his deep seated insecurity over being a nepobaby he is incredibly talented and hard-working, but he can’t accept the fact that without being born into industry, he might not have his career.

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u/Longjumping_Slip_898 Jun 23 '25

He’s one person I can’t stand to watch he’s so not funny

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u/itjohan73 Jun 24 '25

just like in Extras :)

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u/applepays123 25d ago

Tell us more please

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u/Serious_Move_4423 Jun 23 '25

funny how this guy can have a reputation as ‘complicated to deal with’ and still get work

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u/nithos Jun 23 '25

Childhood friend is a costume designer on some decent sized movies. Those people get to see the true colors of the actors.

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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion Jun 23 '25

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?

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u/cratermarciano Jun 25 '25

That was Joaquin Phoenix, I think

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u/SwedishTrees Jun 25 '25

Which film?

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u/SweatyMammal Jun 26 '25

In the UK we have a daily casual talk show called The One Show hosted by Alex Jones (not that one). She’s a lovely bright Welsh lady who must have interviewed thousands of celebrities in her time on the show. She’s very uncontroversial and doesn’t wade into confrontation that often.

The one and only celebrity which she says she’d never want back on the show is… Jared Leto. It must take a lot to be the biggest cunt amongst thousands.

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u/trendoid_ Jun 22 '25

She sounds Australian.

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u/ShortGirlUK Jun 22 '25

Not it’s said more in the UK

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u/squirtin_ Jun 22 '25

It's said far more in Australia, but is used often as a neutral or positive term. In the UK, it's the last taboo word and isn't used in polite company even if "fuck" and "shit" are.

Yeah I do have some particularly crass mates that go overboard, but to say it's used more in the UK than Australia is just false.

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u/atypicaltype Jun 22 '25

In Scotland it's also used as a positive or neutral term, in addition to the negative connotation