Jared Leto Returning to Acting with 'Dallas Buyers Club'
6/11/2012
The 30 Seconds to Mars frontman joins Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in the AIDS drama, playing a flamboyant cross-dresser
Actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto
is stepping before the cameras for the first time in five years for
Dallas Buyer’s Club, joining Matthew McConaughey
and Jennifer Garner in the long-in-the-works AIDS
drama.
Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) is directing the project, which will begin shooting in New Orleans next week.
Inspired by real-life events, the story centers on Ron Woodruff (McConaughey), a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS and given six months to live, who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. He added years to his life but rushed head-first into a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country.
In a potentially stand-out role, Leto would play a flamboyant cross-dresser with HIV who helps Woodroof. At one point, Gael Garcia Bernal circled the role but never reached the dealmaking stage.
Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack adapted
Woodruff’s story for the screen. Robbie Brenner is producing
with Rachel Rothman-Winter and Nathan
Ross.Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria) is directing the project, which will begin shooting in New Orleans next week.
Inspired by real-life events, the story centers on Ron Woodruff (McConaughey), a Texas electrician diagnosed with AIDS and given six months to live, who began smuggling alternative drugs into the U.S. to help himself and other AIDS patients. He added years to his life but rushed head-first into a collision course with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was bent on keeping the drugs out of the country.
In a potentially stand-out role, Leto would play a flamboyant cross-dresser with HIV who helps Woodroof. At one point, Gael Garcia Bernal circled the role but never reached the dealmaking stage.
Leto worked with David Fincher in Fight Club and Panic Room, as well as Darren Aronofsky in Requiem for a Dream before focusing his energies on his rock band 30 Second to Mars, which since the mid-2000s has become a major arena performer. Leto did find time to direct a 30 Seconds to Mars documentary titled Artifact (under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins) and the pic won the people’s choice documentary award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
With music taking so much attention, Leto is somewhat choosy as to what roles he takes on and Buyer’s Club will be his first acting outing since he starred in Mr. Nobody with Sarah Polley and Diane Kruger.
He is repped by CAA and Untitled.
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Jared Leto joins McConaughey, Garner in 'Club'
Indie drama directed by Jean-Marc Vallee
Nov. 6, 2012
Jared Leto is returning to the bigscreen for the first time since 2009, as the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman has closed a deal to join indie drama "Dallas Buyers Club" alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
Story centers on an AIDS patient (McConaughey) who contracts the disease in 1986 and survives six years by illegally smuggling medicine into the U.S. Leto will play a fellow AIDS patient who meets McConaughey's character in the hospital.
Jean-Marc Vallee is directing a script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. Truth Entertainment and Voltage Pictures are financing the production, which begins Sunday in New Orleans. Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter are producing.
Leto, represented by CAA and Untitled, isn't abandoning the rock-star thing: he recently concluded a tour with 30 Seconds to Mars, which is working on its next album.
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Jared Leto is returning to the bigscreen for the first time since 2009, as the 30 Seconds to Mars frontman has closed a deal to join indie drama "Dallas Buyers Club" alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner.
Story centers on an AIDS patient (McConaughey) who contracts the disease in 1986 and survives six years by illegally smuggling medicine into the U.S. Leto will play a fellow AIDS patient who meets McConaughey's character in the hospital.
Jean-Marc Vallee is directing a script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack. Truth Entertainment and Voltage Pictures are financing the production, which begins Sunday in New Orleans. Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter are producing.
Leto, represented by CAA and Untitled, isn't abandoning the rock-star thing: he recently concluded a tour with 30 Seconds to Mars, which is working on its next album.
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