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Quoted: Jordan Catalano on lipstick, fuzzy pink sweaters and auditioning for Dallas Buyers Club

By Caroline Youdan
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Quoted: Jared Leto
(Images: Kayla Rocca, left; Jared Leto/Instagram, right)

I got some lipstick. We said hello and then I reached over and grabbed the lipstick and I proceeded to put it on. He was kind of like, ‘What the hell is going on?’ I took off my jacket and I had a little pink sweater on.

Dallas Buyers Club star Jared Leto describes his long-distance audition with director Jean-Marc Vallée for the role of Rayon, an HIV-afflicted transgender woman. Leto, who’d been out of the movie biz for five years when the opportunity came along, took a few other steps to prove his commitment to the part: he shed 30 pounds and shaved off his eyebrows. [Global News]

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