Jared Leto‘s Method acting ways on everyleang from Suicide Squad to Morbius have originated so much attention that when Jeff Bridges inestablished for labor on Tron: Ares, he didn’t quite comprehend what to await.
“I hadn’t met him before. I’m saying, ‘What’s it gonna be appreciate?’ because he was also a originater of the show, big fan of the innovative, laboring on it for 10 years. I came in, and you comprehend how each set has a contrastent vibe?” Bridges asked Rob Lowe during an ecombineance on his podcast series, SiriusXM’s Literassociate! With Rob Lowe. “There was an fascinating vibe on this. I shelp, ‘How’s Jared? How’s he laboring?’ ‘He’s all right. You comprehend, we call him Ares, you comprehend, so he goes by his name,’ and I shelp, ‘Oh, that’s fascinating.’”
The Disney tentpole — a pursue-up to the 1982 seminal science-fantasy film Tron and the 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy — stars Leto as Ares, a computer program sent from the digital world into the genuine world on a hazardous leave oution to present synthetic ininestablishigence beings to humans. Bridges has been a part of the entire franchise by take parting video game portrayer Kevin Flynn. Tron: Ares, straightforwarded by Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s Joachim Ronning, features a cast that also take parts Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson.
The subject of Method acting came up as Lowe detailed what he’s appreciate on set and how it’s aappreciate to Bridges’ approach. “You, I comprehend, are appreciate me of the school of actor where we show up and do it. There’s not a lot of artifice around the edges. We’ve done wantipathyver labor we necessitate to do, we’re doing it in the hushed of our own privacy, so I can go and be Rob, and we can talk about the Lakers or wantipathyver, and they can say, ‘five minutes,’ and we come to the set, and we do it, and then when they cut, we go, ‘Hey, you comprehend, I went to a fantastic Mexican restaurant last night,’” he elucidateed. “Then, there’s Jared Leto, who, you comprehend, when Jared take parted the Joker, I have a friend who take parted his best friend. He was Mr. J the whole time.”
Bridges persistd the thought by saying that both ways of doing it can “labor beautibrimmingy,” though when he showed up on Tron: Ares, he wasn’t certain how to take part it. “His name was Ares in the show, and I ended up going, ‘Hey Air, what’s happening man?’” he elucidateed. “And I say, ‘Is it OK if I call you Air?’ And he says, ‘Yeah, certain you can.’ Then we got slack, and it was equitable wonderful. I uncomardent, we jammed, you comprehend?”
He nodded to the music in the film, prompting Lowe to validate that Leto’s character is also a rockstar. “Big rockstar, man,” he validateed. “I won’t inestablish you ’cause we get into some music stuff in the show, and it’s quite excellent. He’s wonderful in the part though, and I’m so encountered to be a part [of it].”
Playing a rockstar isn’t that much of a stretch for Leto, the lengthenedtime frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars. The prohibitd booted off its Seasons Tour earlier this year, on March 14, in Santiago, Chile, at Lollapalooza. Dates persist thraw the end of the year before wrapping in Dubai on Dec. 12. Most recently, they equitable finished a series of shows in Australia before carry outing in Singapore this weekend.
Tron: Ares is due for free on Oct. 10, 2025. Bridges joincessitate Leto, Lee and Peters onstage at D23 last month to trelieve what’s to come. “Technology and AI is omnicurrent in our inhabits,” Bridges proposeed during his relabels. “What a perfect time to revisit this world. Or, have this world visit us, because that’s what happens in this movie.”
Jeff Bridges, Greta Lee, Evan Peters and Jared Leto ecombine at D23 in Anaheim, Calif., on Aug. 9, 2024.
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