An anonymous former tourmate who toured with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Jared Leto’s band, decided to break the silence. Their statement was seared into memory: “there is no soul behind his eyes”. They did not say it as a poetic metaphor. They said it while describing how unbearable it was to share a workspace with him, a tense environment where even speaking to him felt impossible.
The source went even further: they claimed that in Leto’s inner circle, it had long been said, almost like an open secret, that he was “very problematic with women”. That phrase resonates differently now that an Air Mail report brought together nine women, some underage when they met him, who describe the actor’s alleged inappropriate sexual conduct. Laura La Rue, a model, says she met him in 2008 when she was just 16 years old.
Leto’s representative expressly denied all the allegations. But the actor who won the Oscar in 2014 for Dallas Buyers Club and who sent rats, real bullets, and a dead pig to his Suicide Squad cast to get into the role of the Joker now faces something that no acting method can cover up.