Jared Leto: Playing The Joker was a painful experience

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Jared Leto says playing The Joker is &&num;8216&semi;Suicide Squad&&num;8217&semi; was a painful experience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 43-year-old actor fully immersed himself in the role of the comic book super villain and admitted that&comma; while it was fun&comma; it was also extremely tough&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jared told Empire magazine&colon; &&num;8220&semi;There was definitely a period of&&num;8230&semi;detachment&period; I took a pretty deep dive&period; But this was a unique opportunity and I couldn&&num;8217&semi;t imagine doing it another way&period; It was fun&comma; playing those psychological games&period; But at the same time it was very painful&comma; like giving birth out of my pr&ast;&ast;k hole&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking about his take on the character&comma; Jared revealed he tried to play The Joker differently to how he has been portrayed before by actors including Heath Ledger&comma; who received a posthumous Oscar for his turn as the villain in &&num;8216&semi;The Dark Knight&&num;8217&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He explained&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I always get the sense that The Joker may be much older than people think&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s something different&period; If you don&&num;8217&semi;t break rules&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;re not going to strike new ground&period; I think I&&num;8217&semi;ll be cooling down for the rest of my life&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And director David Ayer has called Jared&&num;8217&semi;s portrayal &&num;8220&semi;transcendent&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;The Joker is the third rail of comic book movies&period; There&&num;8217&semi;s a power to that character&comma; and by some freaking miracle&comma; through the incredible things Jared has done and the photography and all the other millions of things that went into it&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ve cooked up something transcendent&period; He&&num;8217&semi;s scary&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2aecd2c48">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2aecd2c48'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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