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Jared losing the plot for a second in a chat interview with AOL music in 2006 …

Editor's Note: After this interview was published, Jared Leto contacted us to say that he was, in fact, not gay, and that his ‘coming out’ should not be taken seriously. What a tease.

This classic 😌 His publicist Robin Baum even felt compelled to deny: “Jared was kidding.”

Comparing himself to Morrissey 😭 The “Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans.” - MORRISSEY

Who falls in the same category of shrouded-mystery-sexuality as Karl Lagerfeld and Andy Warhol who Jared at certain points in time was enthusiastic to portray on screen, or still is, who knows. David Bowie fits the shoe, too.

And then adding “if people only knew the real stories…” 😭

As it was May 25, 2006, he was probably thinking of Colin’s upcoming 30th birthday, got a little swept away with nostalgia of a “time when the truth ran free.” (TSTM, Closer to the Edge)

Jared has a rather conservative, cautious standpoint in regard to living openly queer as a celebrity, mirroring the queer men he admires. He’s matter-of-fact here and calculating:

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would probably follow through with it. Of course, that’s easy for me to say now. If it happened, maybe it would be a confusing and difficult thing, considering the world that we live in.

JL 2004

That belief only consolidated over time:

"I definitely don’t think a gay leading man would have the same opportunities as a straight leading man. I don’t think that. Not for a single second," Leto said. "I don’t know if that’s offensive or not, but that’s my thought right now. It shouldn’t be that way. I don’t think you’ll have as many opportunities. And I think you could say the same for minorities. What a word, minority. Have we taken that word off the list yet? ‘Cause it should be. Anyway, no, I think that this is still a very conservative business."

JL 2016

Still gay as a goose in 2012.

“… but a source very close to the actors tells Us Farrell and Leto want to do a love scene together.”

Hmm, yes, believable, because this is how he envisioned it:

The disguised face is often used as a warning that someone is trying to either hide something from you or someone else, or that they are lying and pretending to be someone they aren't (even if only by not showing their full true self. .....🤭 true!

This 👆

The emoji still puzzles me, though. Taking time to add this silly thing... why 😆

I mean it looks like Colin, with the mustache and those brows and Colin being dependent on glasses when off camera. Yet Colin wasn't the one he was spending his time with at the resort. From what I've seen, it's been 20/80 in favor of Ersatzcolin and some occasions for TTT to be his arm candy. He left her behind and spent New Year's with Ersatzcolin in Tokyo. Which is all so amusing, somehow.

I go with the disguise and hide meaning. He's still pretending to be someone who he really is not, which is like the inverted meaning of The Kill. 🥸

Excellent points! I share your feelings about Hurricane! The "no matter" part - that's a good observation. Absolutely agree with the insomnia reference and the WTSHNN link! Colin talked so often of his insomnia and loneliness. I wonder if "poison rain" could also be a drug reference? Then the mention of "breathing" or not being able to breathe; sold secrets, selling and buying as a theme, making it literally sound as if there are financial transactions at play -> Modern Myth, and the line "to buy the truth and sell a lie". Maybe there's a kind of development between "selling a lie" and "selling secrets"?

J said he wrote Hurricane at the end of 2007 in Berlin. Which would be two years post C's OD and first rehab. Could this song deal with the whole of 2005 when Colin started to spiral during the shooting of Miami Vice? He lived in the town from April on. I think Jared was in Florida most of the year too. Acting in "Lonely Hearts Killers" with Salma Hayek and playing concerts in Florida. I suspect they spend time together there until they didn't... Hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita and other tropical storms that year impeded the production of the movie and Colin was in the midst of it, losing himself. This is from an interesting essay about the aesthetic of Miami Vice (2006)

I think some of TSTM's Hurricane video aesthetic mirrors the style of Miami Vice, the movie, maybe even the synth soundtrack, but maybe that's just me.

Also, please, the Hurricane metaphor, there is nothing in the band's or J's biography to warrant such a title if not... I think it stands for events in their personal lives that had the force and effects a Hurricane would and since the lyrics are fairly blunt and emotional it was about a relationship; it stands for a certain period and Katrina and the Hurricane season of 2005 was the overshadowing natural disaster of the 2000s in the US; the movie Miami Vice and this weather period are intrinsically interwoven; and yes, probably it refers to a person with a stormy personality, too.

edit: because I remember it now, Colin contributed to Total Recall (2012) by learning to play the piano. In the movie there’s a scene where his character Hauser plays The Tempest by Beethoven and thus discovers the key - a literal piano key - to his identity, there’s a recording hidden inside or something. In the Hurricane video from 2010 each band member discovers a key to something, truth or whatever, too. Not that these things are connected, but 😂

You sent me a link to a 2018 radio interview where Jared mentioned Colin just like that. As if it were normal. And we all know it is NOT normal.

I know this interview. Recently someone sent me the link to it, to what I call the "That's an easy one" - interview and I mildly freaked out. Discussed it here:

I haven't yet processed the fact he just said the name 😂 Yet, in 2021 he was weird again not mentioning him in an interview - which was the "Not my hair but Alexander's hair"- interview - about the movie. He called Colin Alexander instead of, well, Colin. Although the problems he talks of only popped up because of the actor being black Irish and not blond, so he looked slightly like an 80ies glam metal singer with his hairdo and extensions, something Alexander's actor who shall not be named once called "low hanging fruit" to pick on the movie. Jared took the opportunity right there. "Not my hair, but Alexander's hair" - give me a break. Totally normal.

Thailand fling pt. 3

Who had on their bingo card that Jared Leto would spend the last days of 2024 in Thailand. Not only in Thailand, but in Krabi. Not only Krabi but at Railay Beach, at the Rayavadee resort, the place Colin Farrell stayed at right after the shooting of Alexander had ended in 2004? Of all places he wound up there... again. Not on my card, at least.

Captioned with: Hello Thailand long time no see ❤️ 2004, 2014 and now 2024. Some things change, others never do

Remember, we had this stunning trip down memory lane in 2014, showing him watching a sunset at Railay Beach:

Captioned with: #Thinking about you

Below are impressions from his much more publicized vacay that stretched over Christmas and his 53rd birthday. Just New Year's Eve he apparently jetted off to Tokyo.

Jared shared his Thailand activities (diving, climbing, sunset watching) and grown wealth extensively on Instagram and Snapchat. He chose two songs of his own (of course) as soundtrack. Life is Beautiful on Instagram, and Great Wide Open (which has all the known symptoms of a Farrelleto song) on Snapchat.

[I'm a thief; You're a liar] But we live in our wildest dreams, Into the great wide open, Across a land of blood and dreams

he croons under the Snapchat video…

… and then treats us to a sunset view across an exclusive beautiful beach, which is at a different resort in Phuket now. 

This land “of blood and dreams” where an “I” and a “you” lived their “wildest dreams”—it really looks like Mr. Leto gave us a personal 20th anniversary of Alexander after all. Why, thank you for that! There was nothing all year—no reminiscence, no word from Colin, not even from Oliver Stone. Until these posts.

You can't look at them and not make a connection to Alexander; even without an explicit mention of the movie, it's all over the messaging. The choice of location, Jared giving his sternest Hephaistion gaze like it's 2004, or 2014, for that matter, the philosophical reflection…

And with that comes the one who shall not be named.

Funny enough, I realized something when I was making this post. Jared has edited the caption. Some time after December 21, the phrase “Some things change, others never do” was extended with an 🥸 emoji.

Come on! 😅 What is that supposed to mean? Why would someone take time to do that? 

I'm spitballing here and assume, yes, this was deliberate. The caption expresses a specific sentiment in abstract terms about passing time and “things” that aren't affected by it. The curious addition of 🥸 was made to hint at what it is that he thinks is “never” changing. It's a trivial observation that some things change and others don't, insofar as his vacation destination is concerned or anything else on this planet, but the “never” does some heavy lifting here. Maybe it's kept opaque because he wants to communicate something different altogether. It pertains to the timeframe of “2004, 2014, and now 2024”. Something hasn't changed since his first time in Thailand, and he's certain it “never” changes. “Things” can mean a lot. 

And I listen, and I think everyone with a certain sensibility here will get it too. To quote an sometimes 🥸-looking-actor circa 2004 concerning the relationship between Alexander and Hephaistion in the movie:

You'll probably get the fucking vibe unless you're blind and deaf.

I don't think we are, are we, blind and deaf? The vibe is vibing.

No idea 🤷‍♀️