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Jared Leto has become more accustomed with the opposite sex in a new film role as an HIV-positive drag queen - even travelling around the world in high heels and a wig.
The 30 Seconds to Mars singer and actor has chosen to make his return to the big screen after reading the script to new film, Dallas Buyers Club. Hotly tipped at the Oscars, the film has been generating a huge buzz. It sees Leto playing a drag queen dispensing experimental AIDs drugs in Texas during the 1980s. Co-star Matthew McConaughey plays a homophobic HIV-positive cowboy, to which Leto is the foil - a sassy queen spouting indispensable life advice.
Being the first film Leto has done in years due to focussing on 30 Seconds to Mars, he threw himself into the role straight away adopting the method actor approach. Director Jean-Marc Vallée told Rolling Stone: "He got off the plane in a dress and high heels and a wig. The first week was awkward, because I didn't know what to call him. Her? Jared? Rayon? But I got into it. He was a she, and she was nice. At the end of the shoot, I gave her a female gift: a woman's T-shirt with Marc Bolan on it".
Watch the trailer for Dallas Buyers Club below
Diving into the role in such away was something that Leto found taxing, as he stated: "The only way I can do what I do is by going headfirst and diving deep. I get out what I put in. If you're playing a transsexual drug addict dying of AIDS with a dialect, with all those circumstances and emotional conditions, I don't understand how you can let all that go when someone says, 'Cut'.There was a lot of discovery. But I was counting down the days until it was over."
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