Jared Leto Gave ‘Horrific Gifts’ to Suicide Squad Co-Stars

Speaking in an interview with Vanity Fair, renowned actress Viola Davis (who is set to play villain facilitator Amanda Waller in David Ayer’s upcoming Suicide Squad, 2016), revealed that Jared Leto sent the cast a number of ‘horrific gifts’ upon being announced as The Joker for the upcoming DC Extended Universe film.

Davis recalls Leto hiring a henchman who would deliver the ‘gifts’ to his Warner Bros co-stars.

According the award-winning actress, the henchman ‘walked into the rehearsal room with a giant dead pig and ploppped it on the table’.

This was the actress’s introduction to the actor and left her questioning his sanity. It was also added motivation for Davis, who said that she reacted by acknowledging that she would have to step up her game for her upcoming role.

Leto also sent co-star Margot Robbie (set to play The Joker’s partner Harley Quinn, which will be a first for the comic book character introduced in the 1990s), a black Rat. The gift that was received with enthusiasm and has been kept by the actress.

Leto’s motivations for delivering such unusual gifts under such intriguing circumstances have yet to be revealed, though it easy to assume that they were in-character choices made to not only help Leto to find his version of the famous comic book and screen villain, but to ensure that the talk around his eventual performance would be positive enough to ensure it lasts opposite the character’s last live-action portrayal by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight, a performance which earned Ledger a posthumous acting Oscar (the first for any comic book movie in history).

The news is likely to add to the mystique surrounding the Oscar-winning actor’s apparent Method style of acting; a style that has previously seen him add vast amounts of weight for a role, and drop it again for another.

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