Jared Leto

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q484523: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Prefontaine (1997); The Thin Red Line (1998); Fight Club (1999); Girl, Interrupted (1999); American Psycho (2000); Requiem for a Dream (2000); Highway (2002); Panic Room (2002); Alexander (2004); Chapter 27 (2007); Dallas Buyers Club (2013); Suicide Squad (2016); Blade Runner 2049 (2017); House of Gucci (2021); Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021); Morbius (2022); Tron: Ares (2025); Masters of the Universe (2026); Black and White; Blade Runner (the new one); Haunted Mansion; How to Make an American Quilt; Mr. Nobody; The Little Things; Urban Legend; WeCrashed; unspecified.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Fight Club (1999): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Seven (1995): 2 lines

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Without Se7en's power Fincher does not get to do The Game and Fight Club his way.
    “I think without this movie, he doesn't go on this run”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:27:28 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. career (career lever) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Seven ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). Se7en's success is what let Fincher make the seemingly impossible Fight Club.
    “But the fight club is him more being like, okay, guys, I know this seems impossible, but I made seven.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger (Ad-Free) · 1:05:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Body Double (1984): 1 line

  1. lineage (satire lineage) · through American Psycho (2000), which they acted in: Body Double ⇒ American Psycho (the host's read). American Psycho is described as the Reductress version of Body Double.
    “it's almost like the, the, you know, reductress version of, um, body double in a way.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:07:36 · Julie Klausner (0.50 sure it was them)

Chuck Palahniuk: 1 line

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Chuck Palahniuk ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The film adapts Palahniuk's novel; the speaker says the screenplay cribs straight from the book.
    “obviously the movie is, the book is very, he's cribbing right from the book.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:13:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Deadpool (2016): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Suicide Squad (2016), which they acted in: Deadpool ⇒ Suicide Squad (the host's read). Suicide Squad felt reactive to Deadpool's success.
    “Suicide Squad felt like it was very influenced by the success of Deadpool”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:29:25 · Jason Concepcion (0.40 sure it was them)

Douglas Coupland: 1 line

  1. lineage (literary lineage) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Douglas Coupland ⇒ Fight Club (the host's read). The speaker says the early car-recall section is right out of Coupland and Gen X writing.
    “It's right out of like Douglas Copeland or whatever, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fargo (1996): 1 line

  1. unmapped (model for the villains) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Fargo ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host feels Panic Room's funny villain and scary villain pair uses the Buscemi and Stormare model from Fargo.
    “But I'm realizing how much wisely it does feel like they're sort of using the model of Bushemi and Stoneman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 2:20:45 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Iverson: 1 line

  1. people (people) · them, directly: Iverson ⇒ Jared Leto (the host's read). Leto's cornrows make him an homage to Iverson.
    “Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Jodie Foster: 1 line

  1. unmapped (led to) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Jodie Foster ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The Game casting fell through, and Panic Room happened because she still wanted to work with Fincher.
    “Panic room ends up happening because of how badly she still wanted to work with Venture”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Game with Brendan Hines (Ad-Free) · 0:56:56 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Rear Window ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs.
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Saving Private Ryan (1998): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they acted in: Saving Private Ryan ⇒ The Thin Red Line (the host's read). Ryan spearheaded a WWII revival that included The Thin Red Line and others.
    “It also spearheaded Hollywood's World War II revival.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:59:33 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)

Sling Blade (1996): 1 line

  1. people (led to casting) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Sling Blade ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Yoakam was cast in Panic Room off of Sling Blade.
    “That was kind of what he got cast off over.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:02:00 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977): 1 line

  1. lineage (origin) · through Masters of the Universe (2026), which they acted in: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read). He-Man (and the 80s toy boom) was a response to every company having passed on Star Wars merchandising.
    “so much of He-Man and the 80s for toys is a response to every major company passing on Star Wars that Star Wars is the whiff that no one can live down.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:23:25 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Straw Dogs (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Straw Dogs ⇒ Panic Room (the maker said so: Fincher's quotes the host reads). Fincher saw it as a cross between Rear Window and Straw Dogs (Peckinpah).
    “So Fitcher saw panic group as a cross between rear window and straw dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:38 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: The Silence of the Lambs ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The switcheroo with the dad and Raoul is a little Silence of the Lambs homage.
    “A little silence of lambs homage.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:53:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Thief (1981): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Thief ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Fincher may have watched Thief before Panic Room.
    “Fincher does panic room and he probably saw Thief like 2 weeks before he started filming”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:40:36 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Masters of the Universe (2026), which they acted in: Thor: Ragnarok ⇒ Masters of the Universe (the host's read). The movie looks inspired by Ragnarok, which gave executives a template of color, weirdness, and joke tone to copy.
    “And it speaks to this movie feels very, um, inspired by Thor Ragnarok to me.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:09:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Panic Room (2002): 3 lines, within their own work

  1. career (career) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). Panic Room read as a small antidote to the response to Fight Club.
    “This seemed like a little bit of an antidote to that because what's panic room about.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:19:29 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). The inside-the-house camera moves Fincher started in Fight Club are fully developed in Panic Room.
    “And there's a lot of like stuff that he had started to do a little bit with Fight Club is like really like fleshed out in panic room”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:53 · Chris Ryan (0.45 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (response to) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Panic Room (the host's read). A host says Panic Room is a conscious response to Fight Club, which flopped and tried to be about everything.
    “Yes. And I feel like it's a very conscious response to fight club.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:24:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Babylon (2022): 1 line

  1. lineage (series lineage) · through Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021), which they acted in: Zack Snyder's Justice League ⇒ Babylon (the maker said so: the hosts' own account of the show). The Snyder Cut watch-along, born of a lost bet, started the show's watch-along concept that led to this one.
    “The Snyder, the Snyder Cut thing was a bet that we lost, that Sean was like, if that, that's how the watch along concept started.”
    The Big Picture · The ‘Babylon’ Watch-Along · 3:06:12 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Deadpool 2 (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (joke template) · through Fight Club (1999), which they acted in: Fight Club ⇒ Deadpool 2 (the host's read). A joke that Fight Club is the template Deadpool perfected.
    “I walked so that Deadpool could run.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry (Ad-Free) · 1:59:03 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Flight Plan: 1 line

  1. unmapped (template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Flight Plan (the host's read). A host says Panic Room set the template for what looked like Foster's next phase of adult thrillers.
    “And I do think it's sort of set a template for what felt like, oh, this is Jody Foster's next phase that then went sort of died prematurely.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:01:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Pearl Harbor (2001): 1 line

  1. craft (music borrowed) · through The Thin Red Line (1998), which they acted in: The Thin Red Line ⇒ Pearl Harbor (the host's read). Disney used the Thin Red Line score in the Pearl Harbor trailer without permission, and Malick later cashed that in.
    “Disney uses the score for the thin red line, um, when they, uh, when they do the Pearl Harbor trailer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:40:07 · Bilge Ebiri (0.80 sure it was them)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018): 1 line

  1. unmapped (set the template for) · through Panic Room (2002), which they acted in: Panic Room ⇒ Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (the host's read). A host says Fincher's all-previs approach on this film created the pipeline for how blockbusters are made.
    “But that disc 2 is so much about that he basically created the pipeline for how all fucking blockbusters are made on this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 0:31:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (48) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (3)

  1. career (career): Jared Leto → Fight Club. Fight Club made the cast stars (Norton, Pitt) and Bill expected Panic Room to do the same for Leto.
    “I think I kind of expected that to happen for Jared Leto in this movie when it 1st came out.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:22:49 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career turning point): Jared Leto → Dallas Buyers Club. Leto's comeback came with a trans-woman performance that would not be awarded today.
    “he has this Dallas buyers club comeback where he plays a trans woman in a performance that wins every single award”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:00:30 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. career (filmography pattern): Jared Leto → Tron: Ares. Every Leto movie since Dallas Buyers Club is all about him, with Tron: Ares the latest.
    “Suicide Squad. Blade Runner 2049, the Little Things, Zack Snyder's Justice League, House of Gucci, Morbius, Haunted Mansion, and Tron Aries.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 1:02:40 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Will Smith → Jared Leto. Joke: Will Smith punching Leto would have been a big deal since Leto is tiny.
    “Will Smith punching Jared Leto would have been a big deal.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:07:36 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): David Fincher → Jared Leto. Fincher likes to riff on movie-star personas, beating up the pretty boy (Leto) on screen.
    “let me see how many times I can beat up this pretty boy on screen.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:38:19 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Jared Leto → Iverson. Leto's cornrows make him an homage to Iverson.
    “Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jared Leto → Suicide Squad. Leto's Joker reads as gritty but his star level is a Marvel-style move.
    “the level of star feels like a Marvel move also.”
    The Big Picture · The Past, Present, and Future of Superhero Movies | The Big Picture (Ep. 35) · 0:39:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (aspiration): Jared Leto → Fargo. A host wonders if Leto is trying to be Buscemi in Fargo.
    “oh, is he, is he going full Bushemi and Fargo?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:16:04 · Eva Anderson (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Jared Leto → Dakota Johnson. Worse-with test: Jared Leto is the actor to root against; Dakota Johnson is better as a personality than in movies.
    “Jared Leto, I just don't like.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:00:27 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Jared Leto → House of Gucci. Bill and Chris love Leto in House of Gucci; Sean calls the movie terrible.
    “I mean, he's he's beautiful and perfect in House of Gucci.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:06:41 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Jared Leto → Blade Runner 2049. Leto, whom the speaker usually hates, fits Blade Runner 2049.
    “completely fits what that movie's trying to do.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:29:29 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

what-if (1)

  1. what-if (what-if): Jared Leto → Morbius. Sarcastic enthusiasm for Leto in Sony's Morbius.
    “I am so excited for Jared Leto as Morbius.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:45:35 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Jared Leto: Leto's Panic Room cornrows make him 'an homage to Iverson,' and he should have worn a Sixers jersey.
    “Jared Leto is essentially like the an homage to Iverson in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:46:30 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jared Leto: Eva got a gift from Leto in character as Adam Neumann.
    “He sent me a gift as Adam Newman.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:13:43 · Eva Anderson (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jared Leto: Fincher on casting Leto: the gold teeth did not convince him, but the corn rows did.
    “He went away, came back with corn rose in his hair. And I thought, oh my god, this speaks to so much to him being like a wannabe hard guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:14:46 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jared Leto: For Chapter 27 Leto reportedly melted Ben and Jerry's in a microwave and chugged it, developed gout, and nobody wanted to see the movie.
    “this multiple times, but he literally would buy pints of Ben and Jerry's, put them in the microwave, melt them and chug them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Panic Room with Eva Anderson (Ad-Free) · 1:20:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Jared Leto: Joke list of Leto reboots.
    “Do you remember that rumor they were like, they're gonna remake it as a Jared Lito vehicle?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Captain America: The Winter Soldier · 1:46:13 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)