Jared Leto Went Method on Set of ‘Tron: Ares’ While Playing “Big Rockstar,” Says Co-Star Jeff Bridges

Jared Leto‘s Method acting ways on everything from Suicide Squad to Morbius have generated so much attention that when Jeff Bridges reported for work on Tron: Ares, he didn’t fairly know what to anticipate.

“I hadn’t met him before. I’m saying, ‘What’s it gonna be like?’ because he was also a producer of the show, big fan of the original, working on it for 10 years. I came in, and you know how each set has a different vibe?” Bridges requested Rob Lowe throughout an look on his podcast collection, SiriusXM’s Actually! With Rob Lowe. “There was an interesting vibe on this. I said, ‘How’s Jared? How’s he working?’ ‘He’s all right. You know, we call him Ares, you know, so he goes by his name,’ and I said, ‘Oh, that’s interesting.’”

The Disney tentpole — a follow-up to the 1982 seminal science-fiction movie Tron and the 2010 sequel, Tron: Legacy — stars Leto as Ares, a pc program despatched from the digital world into the true world on a harmful mission to introduce synthetic intelligence beings to people. Bridges has been an element of all the franchise by taking part in online game designer Kevin Flynn. Tron: Ares, directed by Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’s Joachim Ronning, encompasses a solid that additionally contains Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Hasan Minhaj, Jodie Turner-Smith, Arturo Castro, Cameron Monaghan and Gillian Anderson.

The topic of Method appearing got here up as Lowe detailed what he’s like on set and the way it’s just like Bridges’ method. “You, I know, are like me of the school of actor where we show up and do it. There’s not a lot of artifice around the edges. We’ve done whatever work we need to do, we’re doing it in the quiet of our own privacy, so I can go and be Rob, and we can talk about the Lakers or whatever, and they can say, ‘five minutes,’ and we come to the set, and we do it, and then when they cut, we go, ‘Hey, you know, I went to a great Mexican restaurant last night,’” he defined. “Then, there’s Jared Leto, who, you know, when Jared played the Joker, I have a friend who played his best friend. He was Mr. J the whole time.”

Bridges continued the thought by saying that each methods of doing it could actually “work beautifully,” although when he confirmed up on Tron: Ares, he wasn’t certain methods to play it. “His name was Ares in the show, and I ended up going, ‘Hey Air, what’s happening man?’” he defined. “And I say, ‘Is it OK if I call you Air?’ And he says, ‘Yeah, sure you can.’ Then we got loose, and it was just wonderful. I mean, we jammed, you know?”

He nodded to the music within the movie, prompting Lowe to substantiate that Leto’s character can be a rockstar. “Big rockstar, man,” he confirmed. “I won’t tell you ’cause we get into some music stuff in the show, and it’s quite good. He’s wonderful in the part though, and I’m so happy to be a part [of it].”

Playing a rockstar isn’t that a lot of a stretch for Leto, the longtime frontman of Thirty Seconds to Mars. The band kicked off its Seasons Tour earlier this 12 months, on March 14, in Santiago, Chile, at Lollapalooza. Dates proceed by the tip of the 12 months earlier than wrapping in Dubai on Dec. 12. Most lately, they only completed a collection of exhibits in Australia earlier than performing in Singapore this weekend.

Tron: Ares is due for launch on Oct. 10, 2025. Bridges joined Leto, Lee and Peters onstage at D23 final month to tease what’s to return. “Technology and AI is omnipresent in our lives,” Bridges provided throughout his remarks. “What a perfect time to revisit this world. Or, have this world visit us, because that’s what happens in this movie.”