He recently talked about not being aware of the beginning of the raging COVID-19 pandemic in the US due to being away at a silent meditation retreat.
But missing things doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary for Jared Leto.
The 49-year-old actor reveled that he hasn’t seen the Oscar that he had won for the Dallas Buyers Club in 2014 for three years.
Interesting: Jared Leto reveled that he hasn’t seen the Oscar that he had won for the Dallas Buyers Club in 2014 for three years
Big night: Leto seen in March 2014 as he earned the Actor in a Supporting Role award at the Academy Awards
Leto appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night as he explained: ‘You know, I found out that it’s been missing for, like three years, and I didn’t know that.
‘I don’t think anyone wanted to tell me. But I had moved houses in L.A. and then when we moved, it somehow just magically kind of disappeared.’
The 30 Seconds To Mars frontman added that it could be somewhere in that new home but everyone had been looking ‘high and low’ for it to no success.
Leto appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night as he explained: ‘You know, I found out that it’s been missing for, like three years, and I didn’t know that’
Shocked: Corden, 42, laughed as he asked if Leto actually believes someone else has it
The actor responded: ‘I think it’s a possibility. It’s not the sort of thing someone accidentally throws in the trash. I hope someone is caring for it’
Signature role: Leto starred alongside Matthew McConaughey in the Dallas Buyers Club
He did have a positive outlook regardless of its whereabouts as he said: ‘I hope it’s in good hands wherever it is, but, you know, we haven’t seen it for quite some time.’
Corden, 42, laughed as he asked if Leto actually believes someone else has it.
The actor responded: ‘I think it’s a possibility. It’s not the sort of thing someone accidentally throws in the trash. I hope someone is caring for it.’
‘I remember the night I got it’ The Suicide Squad actor went on to reminisce about the March 2014 night where he took home the top honor in acting
The Suicide Squad actor went on to reminisce about the March 2014 night where he took home the top honor in actingas said: ‘I remember the night I got it.
‘I passed it around to so many people. I didn’t see it half the night, but things beat up scratched up but people had fun taking pictures with it, and it’s nice to share it. So hopefully someone’s taking good care of.’
Leto has been making the media rounds to promote upcoming crime drama The Little Things as he recalled leaving a silent retreat not knowing how much the COVID-19 pandemic had surged around the world.
He explained: ‘I passed it around to so many people. I didn’t see it half the night, but things beat up scratched up but people had fun taking pictures with it, and it’s nice to share it. So hopefully someone’s taking good care of’
Golden: Jared seen with the trophy at the Vanity Fair post Oscar Party in March 2014
He was asked about the jarring experience during an appearance Monday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon .
‘The idea is that you go away. You get rid of your phone, you get rid of distractions, you get rid of everything, and you just meditate,’ Jared said.
‘And when I went away, there were about 150 cases. And just in that short amount of time, when I came out there was a shutdown, a state of emergency, and the whole world had changed. But when we were in there, they didn’t tell us. We didn’t have our phones, there was no talking, no eye contact, …no TV,’ he added.
Silent retreat: Leto has been making the media rounds to promote upcoming crime drama The Little Things as he recalled leaving a silent retreat not knowing how much the COVID-19 pandemic had surged around the world
Talk show: He was asked about the jarring experience during an appearance Monday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jarring experience: Jared told Jimmy, 46, that he was on a two-week silent retreat at the onset of the ongoing pandemic and came back to a full lockdown
Jared said the teachers made a decision to not disturb the participants.
‘I didn’t turn on my phone until I went back to L.A. So I drove the whole way trying to be peaceful and zen, keep the feeling going. I got back and I was kind of shocked. It was like Rip Van Winkle,’ Jared said.
Jimmy said it sounded like something out of ‘The Twilight Zone’ and Jared noted that he left the retreat with a ‘great tool to deal with stress and things in life’.
See no evil: Jared explained in March that he hadn’t had a phone or technology during his retreat, so he didn’t know about the coronavirus or the wave of self-quarantining across the US and other countries
‘I don’t think anything can quite prepare any of us to what we all went through in the beginning,’ Jared said.
He added: ‘It was like coming out to the zombie apocalypse’.
The Little Things – also starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek – will be released by Warner Bros Pictures in theaters Friday and also will be available on HBO Max for a month.
Psychological thriller: Jared has been promoting his new movie The Little Things co-starring Denzel Washington, 66, and Rami Malek, 39