In the lead up to ‘Taxi Driver‘, Robert De Niro spent months working as a cab driver to immerse himself in the role. To prepare for ‘Gangs Of New York‘, Daniel Day-Lewis worked as a butcher to fully realise his character, the Butcher. To completely become the Joker in ‘Suicide Squad‘, Jared Leto became a shit co-worker.
The set of ‘Suicide Squad‘ was rife with stories of Leto acting like a complete shithead in-character, doing things like sending co-stars dead animals and used condoms – because that’s exactly what the Joker would be like if he was a) real and b) working on a movie for some reason.
If someone did this in any other professional setting they would be fired immediately, but luckily this was a movie and we can celebrate how it added extra realism to the comic book murderer who tells jokes.
Apparently not content to leave the disgusting japes on the set, Leto brought a little bit of the Joker’s Banksy-if-he-was-a-child-thespian schtick to ‘The Tonight Show‘ with Jimmy Fallon.
Dressed like a handsome Christmas-y grandpa, Leto danced his way on stage bearing a gift for Fallon, who was understandably quite apprehensive about opening it.
Of course, because it’s Jared Leto being the Joker, the gift is a snake – a live snake. It’s a tiny one, but it’s a snake nonetheless. What better way to discover that Jimmy Fallon has issues with snakes? Have a watch:
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