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Losing it over Leto
It’s 5pm on a Thursday. Two Brunch colleagues are on coffee break. Someone brings up Jared Leto and a fierce debate ensues. We bring you the excerpts.
It’s 5pm on a Thursday. Two
Brunch
colleagues are on coffee break. Someone brings up Jared Leto and a fierce debate ensues. Excerpts:
Rachel Lopez:
Honestly, what regular-people movies has he even done?
Nihit Bhave:
He isn’t trying to become JLaw or Brad Pitt, so regular people don’t *need* to know of him! And he was in
Fight Club
!
RL:
Wait. Who was he in
Flight Club
? That movie had only three people.
NB:
Shhh! You can’t talk about
Fight Club
. You’re breaking the first rule.
RL:
How can you take him seriously as an actor when an American magazine devotes a slideshow to 26 of his hair looks?
NB:
I see your magazine’s 26 Hair Looks, and raise you
Buzzfeed’s
27 Reasons Jared Leto Was The Absolute Best Person During All Of Award Season.
RL:
He still looks like Stoner Jesus to me.
NB:
Exactly. So you agree he’s cool?
RL:
He won an Oscar for playing a transgender and didn’t thank trans people!
NB:
By that logic, Natalie Portman should have thanked ballerinas for
Black Swan
. Or swans, maybe? Besides, he’s an actor winning an Oscar, backing this minority for image-building. Meh.
RL:
OMG, he has an official Jared Leto Merchandise shop. Modest much?
NB:
That long shiny hair doesn’t maintain itself. Baby needs cash!
RL:
Jimmy Kimmel once described him as so arrogant that he is the worst person he ever interviewed.
NB:
You’re clearly following the wrong Jimmy. Watch Leto’s hilarious meditation session with Jimmy Fallon.
RL:
Incidentally, there are two other guys in his band 30 Seconds To Mars but he gets all the attention.
NB:
Haters gonna hateeee!
RL:
He’s not Joker in a Batman movie but an ensemble DC-type film!
NB:
Better Joker in a DC-type film than in one where Ben Affleck plays Batman!
RL:
Celebs who try to do too many things never do well, where’s James Franco now?
NB:
Ummm, heard of this little Internet sensation of a film called
The Interview
? This is never going to end. Can we please talk about The Mindy Project now?
And thus, peace is restored.
From HT Brunch, January 25, 2015
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