Jared Leto Gaining Weight to Play the Joker

During an interview with Billboard Jared Leto, which Leto is featured on their magazine cover, he confirms that he’s working on gaining weight to play The Joker for Suicide Squad and also said that The Joker is a “beautiful disaster of a character”.

Playing the Joker onscreen means stepping into some big shoes left by Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger. So how is Jared Leto preparing for his role as the iconic Batman villain in Suicide Squad? By getting bigger.

“Do you mind if I eat a little?” Jared Leto asks Billboard during an interview for our new cover story, out Friday, Feb. 20. “I’m trying to gain a lot of weight. It means I have to eat every couple of hours — and I’m terrible at eating a lot.” (Case in point: Leto was eating vegan tacos during the interview, which are hardly the fattiest food on the market.)

“The opportunity to take on this nearly Shakespearean character — that’s what graphic novels and comic books are becoming, right?” Leto says. “[He’s] this beautiful disaster of a character — what a big challenge.”

Suicide Squad is set to release in theaters on August 5, 2016.

Source: Billboard.com