Jared Leto, the Oscar-winning actor known for transforming himself for roles — including the wild Joker in Suicide Squad, hefty John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27 and the emaciated HIV-positive Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club — now has yet another look.
This time it’s for House of Gucci, director Ridley Scott’s telling of how Patrizia Reggiani (played by Lady Gaga) plotted to kill her ex-husband, Maurizio Gucci (played by Adam Driver), the grandson of fashion designer Guccio Gucci. Leto plays Paolo Gucci, the cousin of Maurizio. Salma Hayek, Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons co-star in the crime drama.
In an October 1995 obituary for the man Leto portrays, the Washington Post called him “a key player in the struggle for control of the fashion dynasty started in Florence in 1906 by his grandfather.” By the time he died of chronic hepatitis, Paolo Gucci had been fired from his family empire and had attempted to go out on his own as a designer.
