Jared Leto on screen: from House of Gucci to Panic Room

Actor and singer Jared Leto’s eye-catching performance as the late Paolo Gucci in Ridley Scott’s biopic The House of Gucci is already generating talk of a second supporting actor Academy Award, after his win for Dallas Buyers Club in 2014.

In The House of Gucci Leto gets a full prosthetic makeover to transform him into the dumpy, overweight, and balding former Gucci VP and chief designer, following in the footsteps of Tom Cruise’s turn as fictional Hollywood producer Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder (2008).

Leto’s performance as Gucci hasn’t gone down well with his daughter Patrizia, who called it: ‘Horrible, horrible. I still feel offended.’

House of Gucci isn’t the first time Leto has donned a fat suit and prosthetic jowls. Back in 2007 he starred in Chapter 27, playing Mark Chapman, the killer of John Lennon.

The wilfully eccentric Leto, who, in addition to acting, is lead singer of American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, is something of a ‘Marmite’ performer, with his role as The Joker in DC’s Suicide Squad (2016) generating blow-back from the fanbase, cinemagoers and reviewers.