6 hours spent daily to turn actor Leto into Gucci

HOLLYWOOD star Jared Leto, who is gearing up for the release of his movie House of Gucci, took six hours to transform his character of Paolo Gucci.

Speaking about the iconic transformation, Leto said: “I spent six hours every day filled with excitement and gratitude, and I really used it as an opportunity to work on the inner life of the character.

“As I said before, if you have a mask it’s meaningless if you don’t have an inner life. And that’s the most important thing.”

He added: “You could certainly play the role without the kind of physical aspects, externally. But you need to have the internal in check, and I used that time as wisely as I could.”

The actor knew he had an opportunity here.

“I was going to do my best to make sure I didn’t let anybody down so I used that time focusing. Paolo was pretty verbose and there was quite a bit of improvisation.”

The actor also shared how one of his own co-stars, Al Pacino, gave him the cold shoulder on their first day on set together, not realising the moustachioed bald man was his on-screen son.

Based on the book, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden, the film follows the ambitious Patrizia Reggiani as she romances Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) and marries her way into the dynastic Italian luxury label. | IANS