A while back we brought you the first pictures of Jared Leto playing an HIV-positive transvestite on the set of Dallas Buyer’s Club. After he ruined his kidneys gaining weight for that Mark David Chapman movie almost no one saw and the ones that did hated a few years back, I guess he figured he’d give this whole method acting thing another go. And now here he is posing for photographer to the stars.

Things required to do Terry Richardson’s job:

• A camera

• A klieg light

• A prisony-looking rape wall

• Largely inexplicable fame

Nothing against the guy, he’s obviously living the life, I just don’t get it. Did he get famous for other kinds of pictures before he started taking harshly-lit photographs of people standing in front of brick walls? I know I’m in front of a computer right now, but I refuse to look up this fact.

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Here’s Jared Leto in drag on the set of of Dallas Buyer’s Club, in which he stars opposite an equally-freaky looking Matthew McConaughey. Scroll down to see the full picture, which includes Leto’s sparkly heels. I guess Leto’s director Jean-Marc Valée (Young Victoria) wanted to destroy something beautiful. Or at least, make something beautiful look like your mom (he’s even opening the door to a trailer, perfection!).

If this doesn’t work out for Jared Leto, he should get some kind of award for method-acting the sh*t out of roles no one will see. You may remember that back in 2007, he gained 60 pounds and almost ruined his kidneys to play Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27, a brutally-panned indie co-starring Lindsay Lohan that went on to earn less than $200,000 at the box office worldwide. He could be a totem, a martyr for the entire acting profession, the patron saint of down-on-their-luck actors. “Jared Leto nearly kills himself for tiny films no one sees or likes so that you and I may win fame and fortune playing ourselves in a TV movie set in Tahiti, forever and ever unique New York amen.”

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Don't worry, y'all. I found this T cell.

Professional shirtless bongo player Matthew McConaughey is the latest Hollywood leading man attached to Dallas Buyer’s Club, a drama centering around a protagonist with AIDS. Make me a batch of frownies, LA Times:

The movie tells of Ron Woodroof, a heterosexual Dallas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, during some of the darkest days of the disease. Doctors gave him just a few months to live, but he refused to accept their prognosis. Instead, Woodroof created a smuggling operation for alternative treatments, then illegal, and got them into the hands of as many AIDS patients as he could. He wound up living six more years and saved or prolonged the lives of countless others.

Jesus, that guy sounds awesome. He was dying of AIDS and was STILL smuggling illegal drugs across the border and getting them to other patients like some sort of modern day, sickly Robin Hood? Yeesh. In a related story, one time I wrote a paper when I had a sinus infection. WHERE’S MY BIOPIC, TINSELTOWN?!

Here’s my favorite part about this movie: Someone somewhere thinks it’s plausible for Matthew McConaughey to play an AIDS patient. The six-foot tall, bronze Adonis with the flowing hair and perfect pecs. As an AIDS patient. Riiiiiiiiight. In the history of civilization, no one has ever looked less like an AIDS patient than Matthew McConaughey. There had to be other actors considered, right?

In 2008, the project seemed to get new life when reports had Ryan Gosling coming on to star, with his “Lars & the Real Girl” director, Craig Gillespie, behind the camera.

“Hey girl, I only got into smuggling because I thought they said ‘snuggling.’”

via Screen Junkies