10 Actors Most Comfortable Playing The Grotesque

Jared Leto has been a supporting actor in many great films throughout his career. He has taken on many roles which veer on the side of darkness, and he portrays each character equal in their individuality, as well as their misery.

Leto appeared alongside the emaciated Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyer’s Club in a similar grotesque physical state. Losing between 30 and 40 pounds for the role, the sight of how Leto’s bulbous knees were especially hard for viewers to bear.

Before the role which earned Leto an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, he appeared in Fight Club and was the blonde bombshell, Angel Face, who was beaten to a bloody pulp by the protagonist, Edward Norton. With the camera focused on his face, complete with a busted nose, black eyes, and broken teeth, Jared Leto looked like a Picasso version of himself.

Leto’s character was pivotal in the movie. Being the ‘beautiful’ thing Norton wanted to destroy, this was when the movie descended into its darker tones of terrorism.

In more recent years, Leto has continued to play darker roles, and recently appeared in Chapter 27 as John Lennon’s deranged murderer, Mark David Chapman. As well as sporting a larger midriff, Leto has mastered the cold, blank expression that replicates the murderer’s gaze perfectly.

The majority of acting credits Leto has accumulated throughout his career usually contain elements of dark humour or the disturbing realities of regular life, and there is no wonder: he is more comfortable in that version of reality.