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Jared Leto Admitted He Secretly Met WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Before Playing Him in ‘WeCrashed’ · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Oftentimes, when an actor
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Speaker 1: plays a real life character on a TV show or film,
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Speaker 1: they spend time with them to nail the nuances of
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Speaker 1: person and understand them, unless the portrayal is in a
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Speaker 1: less than flattering light, like Jared Leto's performance as Adam Newman,
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Speaker 1: the founder of We Work, in his show We Crashed.
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Speaker 1: But Jared shared with the Hollywood Reporter he actually did
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Speaker 1: meet Adam beforehand, even though he wasn't exactly supposed to,
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Speaker 1: saying I floated the question early on and didn't get
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Speaker 1: a definitive response. The approach producers were taking was that
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Speaker 1: the Newman's weren't involved with our project. It was a
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Speaker 1: piece that celebrated their success but also some of the
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Speaker 1: biggest failures. But I was too curious and I thought
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Speaker 1: I would regret it. We had a top secret meeting.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knew it was happening. I met him and his wife, Rebecca,
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Speaker 1: and they have a lovely family. It was a nice
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Speaker 1: experience on my end. We Crash streaming now Apple TV
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