Sean Fennessey
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so this is happening at the same time.
He gets cast as this arch villain from the 1980s animated series.
And he also has never seen
because he is CGI'd with a skeleton face.
There's something magical about that.
But there's a specific reason for this.
The reason is that Jared Leto is always too much.
He has no ability to turn – and this didn't necessarily always used to be the case.
I would not describe his performance on My So-Called Life as overplayed.
And he has developed a lot of showy bad habits as a performer where he demands the gravity be operating around him in a movie at all times.
And if you look at the movies he's made since Dallas Buyers Club –
Suicide Squad, Blade Runner 2049, The Little Things, Zack Snyder's Justice League, House of Gucci, Morbius, Haunted Mansion, and Tron Ares.
All of those movies, it's about him all the time.
He's drawing all the attention to him.
And Skeletor kind of needs that.
He's a ridiculous, overplayed character.
And also it helps that you don't have to look at his face.
But he honestly just has the sense of humor in this performance that it needs and is working.
Yeah, I mean, just to put a button on it, because we have a bunch of other things to go through.
It feels like a movie almost entirely made for, like,