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Stop! I want success

Jared doesn’t give up. Snobbed as an actor, he smashes in as a rocker.
And now he tries again with a new movie which is already a cult. But it’s not an ambition. Everything begins from the hippie’s time…
He just acted in a movie called Mr.Nobody and for Jared, eternal promising actor in Hollywood, this title sounds just like a fate’s trick.
To stop from being nobody he did everything and more: he played several hard roles (he excessively gained weight for Chapter 27); he gave his soul in movies like Girl, Interrupted , Fight Club and The Thin Red Line; he’s been directed by Oliver Stone (Alexander). But Nothing. On his side Brad Pitt and Agelina Jolie became famous, and Leto has been left standing. Moral: he resigned to a not so relevant acting career and he started playing rock. With his brother Shannon, he created 30 Seconds To Mars and…surprise! The band just broke out, it’s one of the most loved band among rockers. We met Jared in Los Angeles and we approached just talking about movies, about Mr. Nobody, which it’s about to come out in our theatres.

- With this movie you will conquer once and for all the screens.
J “To me it’s just a movie like many other I did, it’s a movie that talks about taking choices…this is the story: Nemo Nobody (nemo in Latin means nobody) lives an ordinary life with his wife and kids, till he wakes up in 2092 at the age of 120. The last mortal in a future of Immortals. In this future, Nemo starts questioning himself if he lived the right way, if he loved the right woman, if he made the right choices…”
- Did you ever query yourself about it or if you are enough confident about yourself not to ask too much?
J “I have a fairly good opinion of myself, but yes, I’m a man who’s used to question a lot. Someone who thinks of life like a journey and in this journey has the good habit to always ask the classic question: “What if?”, what could happen if…and then decide for it.”
- Then choose: are you an actor or a musician?
J “No dramatic crossroads. I’m just an actor quite unemployed to whom, from time to time, someone offers a role in the most bizarre movies of the history of cinema of all time”
- Is it difficult to combine both careers?
J “Yes, some times. Unfortunately days have only 24 hours. We have to make a sacrifice” (he smiles)
- But which was your first love?
J “Neither movies or music. My first love has been painting. I still look after the design of everything about 30 Seconds To Mars. Besides, when I was young I used to live among artists, musicians, photographers, actors and dreamers of every nature. I grew up in one of the post-hippie communities where there were no boundaries between arts”
- Does it come from this circle the love for stories out of the ordinary?
J “From my curiosity/wonder. I always look for roles different from myself. It’s like enter in the house of a stranger and sit on his sofa. I feel really funny and challenging hunting high and low in someone else’s life. Instead, it’s stupid to play a role of a man in jeans and shirt like me with a tattoo on his wrist…”
- On the wrist? Your tattoo, which seems a weird cross, takes almost half of your forearm! What does it mean?
J “I can tell you. But it’s a secret, a real secret. Then I should kill you” (he smiles)
- Got it, but I try again. Does it have any philosophical meaning?
J “Almost there: I do read philosophical texts, books are a good inspiration. When I dip into books like Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (the masterpiece of a charismatic Russian writer and philosopher) it feels like my brain will explode, it’s like I’m training my mind.”
- Was it really you playing the old Nemo in Mr. Nobody?
J “Yes, after 6 hours of make-up to which I processed every day for 6 months. And at the end, I looked like my grandfather. Obviously the make-up artists did an amazing job, but the rest of the bet was linked to my ability: if it’s evident that you are a young just made up like an old man, you ruin everything.”
- You never save yourself from anything. You gained 44 lbs to play in Chapter 27. Did you ever think that these kind of sacrifices for a movie are a little extreme?
J “Yes, I did. And I answer myself that I’m a perfect idiot. I still have health’ issues for having put all that weight: my back is not the same now. And to play the old Nemo I spent every night screaming to get a rude voice…and on top of that I’m a singer. In sum: I act like an idiot. Sometimes I think if I was a better actor I shouldn’t put myself through such a tour de force.”
- Are you the kind of actor who used to watch his movies again and again?
J “No, shooting is such a deep experience than after that I don’t want to know anything more about it.”
- You never did a movie that really exalts your beauty.
J “Are you saying that I’m gorgeous?” (and smiles for the third time)
- Of course
J “The fact is that I wanna make only movies I would like to go out and watch myself. But you never know, maybe the next one will be a comedy produced by a major with a big budget.”
- Money are not a priority in your life, isn’t it?
J “If it was so, I was a broker.”
- Then, which is your priority?
J “ For example, the environmental commitment. The video A Beautiful Lie has been shot in the Artic and speaks out against the global warming. It’s been a little frenzy.”
- Which is the craziest thing a fan did for you?
J “Many of them get my name inked, usually on their arm or neck. Someone comes from Japan just to see one show of my band. Somebody else even told me 30 Seconds To Mars helped him surviving in the desert, hopeless, with his car broken down. Now I wait to see what the Italian fans would tell me.”

THANK YOU TO MFANTASY
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