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Jared Leto: 'My Oscar has more personality because it's so tatty'

30 Seconds To Mars hitmaker Jared Leto has revealed that the Oscar he won for his role in 'Dallas Buyers Club' is looking a bit worse for wear after getting passed around so much by friends and colleagues. 

Speaking to the Associated Press, Leto admitted that he was quite happy to let people take photographs with the Oscar he picked up, but the constant attention it receives has made it a little tatty:

"I wasn't shy with it. I let people kind of take pictures with it and have fun and I think that's what it's really about."

"It got some scuffs and bruises, but it's all the better for it, more personality."

The 'Closer To The Edge' superstar joked that he damaged it after absent-mindedly smacking it against a railing:

"True story, I was letting some of the people that I work with take a picture with the Oscar, and I was carrying it downstairs and boom - I hit the railing on the stairs and I put a little nick in the back of it. The Oscar is sitting in my kitchen guarded by some vegan butter and a bag of popcorn."

Watch a recent interview with Leto here: