читать дальшеDETAILS: Your mother was a circus acrobat when you were growing up. How did she get into that line of work?

Jared Leto: Well, my mother was and is an artist, but she was also a single mother
with two boys, so I'm sure there were times her occupation wasn't as
creative as she wanted it to be. We clawed our way out of the muddy
banks of the Mississippi with food stamps in one hand and whatever you
could hold in the other. She's a photographer; she's worked in design;
she was a rock-climbing guide; she rescued wolves for a while.

Jared Leto: My brother and I didn't have many rules for ourselves
and really didn't acknowledge that there were any rules in the world.
We would often break into schools. I assumed everyone did. I mean, we
broke out of schools a lot as well. We were the kids that other kids
weren't allowed to play with. There wasn't any deep ill intent, but we
were compelled to do certain things. I think it was about experience, a
feeling you get when you're on the edge.

Jared Leto: I didn't notice that stuff. I was just grateful to
have the work. It was a very short period of time in my life. It was 17
episodes, and I barely spoke!

Jared Leto: I didn't want to take on really corny movies that
focused on people's looks, if that's what you mean. My heroes were
Christopher Walken, Dennis Hopper, Sean Penn, Daniel Day-Lewis. Those
are the actors I thought, "Wow, those guys are pushing themselves as far
as they can go."

Jared Leto: People ask if that was fun, but there wasn't any
pleasure—it wasn't that sort of eating. I was force-feeding myself,
overeating, melting Häagen-Dazs and mixing it with olive oil and soy
sauce and drinking that. One or two of those before bed seemed to help.
And there was a lot happening on the inside. That was one part of an
experience in exploring the darker recesses of humanity. I would never
do that again.

fantasy-fiction lexicon—your fans are the Echelon, for instance. You
seem to be in touch with your dorky side.
Jared Leto: Much more than people realize. I was never really the
cool kid or the jock. I was always very much the lone wolf. If I could
have ever figured out how to play Dungeons & Dragons correctly, I'd
probably still be playing it.

Jared Leto: I don't think it has to be defined that way. Just
because you like a sunset doesn't mean you can't enjoy a sunrise. There
are different things in life that are worth the pursuit. This has been
the longest project I've ever worked on, the longest commitment I've
ever had to any creative endeavor. We've been signed since 1998.

Jared Leto: Signed to Virgin Records in 1998, and we were a band years and years before that. So this has been quite a journey.

Jared Leto: No, no, no. As a musician, it's about revealing more
of who you really are. I'm not handed a sсript with dialogue; there's no
cinematographer or editor. I'm not so interested in creating a persona.
There have been shows where I've been very plain and shows where I've
worn a dress. I've got a skirt on right now. I was in Japan and all the
busboys were wearing them.

Jared Leto: No, I leave that to the Scottish.

Jared Leto: I walked down Madison Avenue in a spaghetti-strap
tank top and black-fringe wig, and I thought that I would pass with
flying colors, but I didn't. My shoulders were too big. My jaw was too
big. I was just trying to disappear. It wasn't like I was getting in
touch with my inner transvestite, which I'm sure is inside of us all
somewhere.

Jared Leto: I thought it was very endearing and creative and bizarre all at the same time. She did a really good job.

Jared Leto: Well, you know, I've lived a life. I've certainly had
my experiences out there, but I wouldn't be so much of a gentleman if I
talked about them. I would furthermore say, if you hope to have any
respect at all, you probably shouldn't talk about them.

Jared Leto: I don't really believe in settling down. That term
implies that the current path I'm on isn't valid. It's not always about
living your life the way people have lived before you.

Jared Leto: No, she didn't send me an approval with any
constructive criticism, if that's what you mean. We've talked a couple
times. I met her at the VMAs. She was a nice, sweet girl.

Jared Leto: BBC Radio 1 in London does something called "Live
Lounge," where bands are asked to cover pop songs. "Bad Romance" was
everywhere at the time. It's a fun song. But I had to rewrite the
lyrics. I hope Lady Gaga didn't mind. They were very filthy, how I wrote
them. I managed, I think, to make it even filthier.

"Hurricane," which is in part about persecution. Did you bond over all
your haters?
Jared Leto: I see Kanye as a fellow artist. I think there's a
connection there, but I don't think it's about feeling persecuted. It
doesn't matter if you're President Barack Obama or Bono or the
Pope—there's someone out there who wants to fuck you and someone who
wants to kill you.

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