WeCrashed showrunners have revealed it became ‘weirder’ to call Jared Leto by his real name, choosing to address him as his character instead.
Jared, who recently turned 50, stars alongside Anne Hathaway in the new Apple TV series, playing eccentric Israeli businessman Adam Neumann in the show that explores the rise and fall of global co-working enterprise WeWork.
In under a decade, WeWork expended from a single co-working space to becoming a global brand worth $47billion (£35.7m) but in less than a year that valuation plummeted.
Speaking at the WeCrashed world premiere, Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello explained they felt they had ‘spent more time with Adam than we had Jared’ and subsequently called him Adam.
The producers said they spoke to Jared before filming but ‘then one day he came on set and he was Adam Neumann, we called him Adam for the next four or five months’.
‘We addressed him as Adam, and then one day we wrapped the show and started talking to our friend Jared again.
‘We had spent more time with Adam than we had with Jared,’ they told the media.
Crevello added: ‘It was so immersive that we came to see him as Adam.
‘When we wrapped it was weirder to call him Jared than it had been to call him Adam… that was the weird transition, not the other way.’
Crevello said it was ‘comforting knowing the actors are taking it just as seriously as you are’.
‘You feel like the scripts and the production are in good hands,’ he enthused.
‘To work with people that are 1000% committed to the work, you should be so lucky to do that once in your career.”
Director John Requa later added: ‘He came into the room and I was like ‘who is that guy, oh that’s Jared Leto, that’s the guy I’ve been working with for six months.”’
WeCrashed is available to stream on Apple TV.
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.
WeCrashed showrunners have revealed it became ‘weirder’ to call Jared Leto by his real name, choosing to address him as his character instead.
Jared, who recently turned 50, stars alongside Anne Hathaway in the new Apple TV series, playing eccentric Israeli businessman Adam Neumann in the show that explores the rise and fall of global co-working enterprise WeWork.
In under a decade, WeWork expended from a single co-working space to becoming a global brand worth $47billion (£35.7m) but in less than a year that valuation plummeted.
Speaking at the WeCrashed world premiere, Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello explained they felt they had ‘spent more time with Adam than we had Jared’ and subsequently called him Adam.
The producers said they spoke to Jared before filming but ‘then one day he came on set and he was Adam Neumann, we called him Adam for the next four or five months’.
‘We addressed him as Adam, and then one day we wrapped the show and started talking to our friend Jared again.
‘We had spent more time with Adam than we had with Jared,’ they told the media.
Crevello added: ‘It was so immersive that we came to see him as Adam.
‘When we wrapped it was weirder to call him Jared than it had been to call him Adam… that was the weird transition, not the other way.’
Crevello said it was ‘comforting knowing the actors are taking it just as seriously as you are’.
‘You feel like the scripts and the production are in good hands,’ he enthused.
‘To work with people that are 1000% committed to the work, you should be so lucky to do that once in your career.”
Director John Requa later added: ‘He came into the room and I was like ‘who is that guy, oh that’s Jared Leto, that’s the guy I’ve been working with for six months.”’
WeCrashed is available to stream on Apple TV.
Credit: Original article published here.You can read this post on My Celebrity Life.