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Jared Leto on 'Dallas Buyers Club' role: 'It has changed my outlook on life'

30 Seconds To Mars star Jared Leto has opened up about his part in the new movie 'Dallas Buyers Club', in which he plays transgender and HIV positive Rayon, and explained that it really affected him. 

Leto, who recently won a Golden Globe for his role in the film, told Access Hollywood that the character he portrayed has genuinely inspired his own take on life:

"Rayon was beautiful inside and I hope that if I was ever faced with the enormous challenges and the brutal circumstances that she was faced with, that I would have the grace and the levity and the kindness that she did. She's a real person, she's this living, breathing, beautiful creature and I'm really grateful that I had the chance to get to know her."

Leto added that the role was incredibly challenging because it was so different from anything familiar to him in his own world: "You're playing a character that's so far removed from parts of yourself that you normally inhabit."

"It's wild, even putting on lipstick is a very shocking thing, [and] putting on heels is a very shocking thing, putting on tights is a shocking thing. It's all very, very explosive in a way, but then you have to take all that stuff and make sure it doesn't get in the way."

 

 

Watch the trailer for 'Dallas Buyers Club' here: