Jared Leto jokes about getting 'stunt pay' for walking around New York City barefoot to film his new WeWork show 'WeCrashed'
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Palmer Haasch
Mar 22, 2022, 00:27 IST
Jared Leto as Adam Neumann in "WeCrashed."Apple TV+
Jared Leto joked about walking barefoot in New York City for "WeCrashed" being a stunt.
His character, WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann, was known in real life for going barefoot.
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Jared Leto joked about getting "stunt pay" for filming a good portion of "WeCrashed" barefoot, and walking on the streets of New York City without shoes on.
"If you've ever lived in New York, you know there's one thing you don't wanna do is walk down that street barefoot," Leto told Entertainment Tonight at the "WeCrashed" premiere on March 18. "So that was — I think I got a little stunt pay that day."
In the show's first episode, which was released on Friday, Leto, as Neumann, exits his apartment completely barefoot, wearing jeans and a t-shirt.
"I've been practicing my whole life, ever since I was a little kid," Leto said of his character's attire. "So it wasn't too difficult."
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Leto applied his immersive, method acting approach to "WeCrashed," and didn't break character during the shoot for the series, his costar Anne Hathaway said on "The Tonight Show with Stephen Colbert." That is, except for one moment in which Hathaway quoted a line from "House of Gucci" to him, evoking his next most recent role, Paolo Gucci.
"I didn't know what would happen because he's so intense in his commitment to his process, but I swear to God, he split into three," Hathaway told Colbert. "It was like a Horcrux. It was like over here was Jared, here was Paolo Gucci, and here was Adam Neumann."
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