In press interviews for the upcoming dark take on a superhero flick, co-star Will Smith said “I’ve never actually met Jared Leto. We worked together for 6 months and we’ve never exchanged a word outside of ‘Action!’ and ‘Cut!’ I literally have not met him yet. So, the first time I see him will be ‘Hey, Jared. What’s up?’ He was all in on the Joker.”
Margot Robbie, who plays Harley Quinn, also revealed that despite their characters’ infamous relationship, she too is none the wiser regarding Leto’s true character. “At first it was kind of confronting (to be up so close) but now I’m so used to it, I think if I ever saw him out of makeup now I would be really confused.”
Adam Beach, who plays Slipnot in the Warner Bros film, said that Leto’s bizarre behaviour even extended to giving his co-stars unique, eh, “gifts.”
“He sent Margot [Robbie] a nice love letter with a black box with a rat in it—a live rat. It was beautiful. Then he sent bullets to Will [Smith] with a letter.”
The cast also received a video and a dead hog (Who did Leto think they were, David Cameron?)
“Basically, what he said was, ‘Guys, I can’t be there but I want you to know I’m doing my work as hard as you guys,’” Beach said. “The video he showed is in character. It blew our minds away. Then we realized that day, this is real.”