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Jared Leto's On-Set Behavior Confirms What We Suspected About His Acting Process

Method acting, or self-indulgent Hollywood antics? To portray the sickly titular biochemist in "Morbius," Jared Leto apparently stayed in character constantly — even on bathroom breaks. When asked by UpRoxx, "Morbius" director Daniel Espinosa confirmed in April that Leto would even use his character's crutches to go to the bathroom. "I think that what Jared thinks, what Jared believes, is that somehow the pain of those movements, even when he was playing normal Michael Morbius, he needed ... because he's been having this pain his whole life," Espinosa explained to UpRoxx. However, the outlet reported that Leto's unusual bathroom breaks were holding up the shoot so much that production came up with a compromise: someone could push him in a wheelchair to the restroom instead, thereby expediting the process, while maintaining the sanctity of the character. 

This really makes one think: All this for "Morbius"? Twitter reflected on Leto's methods, with one fan opining that Leto has strayed from the ways of method acting. "'This actually has nothing to do with the method. Loosely, the method is about using your real experiences to inform your performances. Leto creates superficial, artificial experiences," he wrote. However, another argued that, because Leto "'becomes' the character and stays in character for longer periods of time," he is, therefore, "also method." But the funniest Twitter take on the story was one user's savage quip asking, "Jared Leto went all method for Morbius only to get 17% on rotten tomatoes?"

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