Over his long career, Jared Leto has made a name ... Playing a heroin addict in “Requiem for a Dream” caused Leto to drop weight and hang out with downtown drug users as research.

Jared Leto starved himself for two months to play emaciated heroin addict Harry Goldfarb in Darren Aronofsky's harrowing Requiem for ... His extreme weight loss was documented by fashion ...

Why couldn’t Jared Leto cry in ... “Maybe I shed them all in Requiem for a Dream.” The 2000 addiction drama, directed by Darren Aronofsky, left scars. Leto played Harry Goldfarb, a heroin ...

Jared Leto has admitted that losing lots of weight for movie roles is "a crazy thing to do". The actor has previously gained and lost weight for parts in films like Requiem For A Dream and Chapter ...

He added, however, that it wasn’t losing the weight but gaining it back that was the challenge. “I’d done it before for Requiem for a Dream, so I had some experience,” Leto says.

Set in New York City and based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby Jr, Requiem for a Dream stars Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn ... in an attempt to lose weight before a TV appearance.