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[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.world 106 points 5 days ago (8 children)

How does this man still have a career, we've known he is a predator for so long. Like decades at least.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 58 points 5 days ago (7 children)
[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

More importantly, he's box office poison.

Which really does lend credibility to the idea that he either has some Epstein-style blackmail on some influential people in Hollywood and/or he's still providing them with unsavory, or illegal, experiences.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

He's rich. He produced tron so he got to say he was the lead in it. Rich people suck.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 7 points 5 days ago

Yea something is up.

[–] 1egg4u@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

This is the genuinely such an agonizing flip side to it like if we are gonna employ a sex criminal at least get an actor who isnt total ass and ruins every movie he is in. Dude is allergic to emotion, wooden, and sucks to work with. It makes no sense. There are so many pervs in hollywood I know at least one of them has to be able to act better than this asshole

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 6 points 5 days ago

He’s got to be one of them that traffics or supplies women to the rest.

[–] tmyakal@infosec.pub 5 points 5 days ago

He peaked as Jordan Catalano in My So-Called Life, an intellectually stunted, emotionally empty symbol of naive adolescent desire. For some reason, he was really able to sink into that role.

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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 43 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You're confused on why a sexual predator is still working in an industry famously run by sexual predators?

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And spearheaded in a country that famously keeps and defends sexual predators in positions of power?

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the USA was a mistake

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[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

Like most predators. Everyone knows for decades and hardly anyone does anything about it. The ones who speak up are called sluts, liars, clout-seekers, attention whores, etc.

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I feel like this is why we keep seeing him in movies despite the fact he's box office kryptonite.

He's somebody's favorite sex pest.

[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] cowfodder@lemmy.zip 73 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You mean to tell me that the creepy weirdo that seems to run a sex cult with himself as the object of worship is a sex pest‽ That seems unlikely! (/s)

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 5 days ago

It's always the people you most expect

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 5 days ago

Right?? I'm shocked of this news from the guy who may or may not have sent used condoms to his Suicide Squad co-stars in the pursuit of "method acting"

[–] AXH@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good interrobang usage‽ Hell yeah

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[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago

So he’s a sexual predator and all his movies flop? Quick, cast him as a lead role in our next movie with a $250 million budget!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The next article will be about how he’s rebranding himself as a born-again Christian.

[–] TheImpressiveX@piefed.social 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He already thinks he is Jesus.

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[–] Senal@programming.dev 33 points 5 days ago
[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's always the people you most expect.

Hopefully they stop putting this rapist in movies.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 days ago

Someone once commented that "30 seconds to Mars was Jared Leto's excuse to get closer to teenage girls"

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Please let this mean he's finally going to stop being cast in movies.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He must have pictures of some big producers. Photographs eh? Know what I mean, know what I mean?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 5 days ago

He is such a subpar actor, I don't know how he got cast anyway.

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[–] JoeTheSane@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Show me one person who is surprised by this and he will show them his dick.

[–] velma@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We’re all not surprised, but he’s still not in court. He’s still not in jail. He’s still allowed to rape girls at his leisure.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

It's always the ones you'd expect.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

This dude and Russel Brand are the biggest "I'm not surprised in the least" that they have accusations against them. Always got creepy vibes from both of them

I find it interesting the article ends saying there's 9 accusations back in 2025. I'm curious if these ones are additional accusations or some of those 9

In a report in Air Mail in June 2025, nine women accused Leto of engaging in inappropriate behavior over the years

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Back in my 4th year of college (2003-2004) of of the freshman girls I was friends with mentioned that when her younger sister (16 at that the time) actually met Leto at one point and blew him; said when he came it tasted like candy.

Dudes a fucking creep

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[–] ncc74656@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

To the shock and awe of...no one

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 9 points 5 days ago

Only 4 so far

[–] officermike@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
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[–] grte@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I really wish this guy did not get cast for Bladerunner 2049.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To be fair, he "plays" a good creep. I don't think he takes away from the movie, which is something, but I wish it didn't give him employment.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Maybe he just showed up on the set one day, stabbed a lady in front of a rolling camera, did a creepy monologue about having billions of children, and then they wrote him a part around that so they wouldn't need to stop production while a murder investigation was carried out.

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[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

I'm so glad I don't pay for films he's in

[–] djdarren@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago

It's always the ones you most expect.

[–] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Wow, the people obsessed with money who love the privilege capitalism grants them also enjoy power. Who could have guessed.

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