Jared Leto Opens Up About How He Masters Accents In His Projects

Jared Leto is opening up about how he’s mastered the accents in his most recent films, which include House of Gucci and the upcoming WeCrashed.

The 49-year-old actor opened up about how he rolled right into his performance as Adam Neumann for WeCrashed, right off filming House of Gucci, during a recent TCA panel.

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“I literally went from Italy to New York, just coming from House of Gucci where I was playing Italian, and little did I know they actually have a lot of similarities, the two accents,” Jared recalled at the event.

He went on to explain that “with Adam’s accent I wasn’t really doing an Israeli accent, I was doing Adam’s accent. An accent is just a series of mistakes. You learn how to say a word and maybe you don’t say it ‘correctly,’ whatever that means, but it’s just a series of habits. It’s the way your mouth makes shapes. Everyone learns theirs differently.”

Jared also spoke about turning his portrayal into a caricature: “I think probably the insurance against things slipping into caricature is to dive into as much truth as possible, right? In this case I had a great team of Israelis surrounding me that I was working with. We kind of had our own bubble during this time when we all were in a bubble, so that voice and that accent was around me all the time.”

When talking of House of Gucci, Jared said that in contrast of preparing to play Adam Neumann, he didn’t have a lot of footage of Paolo.

“I had about a minute and a half of his voice in an interview,” he said.

Many other stars have spoken out about mastering accents in their own projects. Check out one of them here!