Jared leto joins ‘dallas buyers club’
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Jared Leto has been cast alongside Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner in the AIDS drug drama _Dallas Buyers Club_, which is starting production next week in New Orleans. It will be the
first feature film in five years for Leto, who has been concentrating on his band 30 Seconds To Mars and his documentary _Artifact_, which won the People’s Choice Award this year at Toronto.
_Dallas_ centers on Ron Woodruff (McConaughey), who was given six months to live after contracting AIDS in 1986 and spent the next six years smuggling medicine into the U.S. to help himself
and fellow sufferers. Leto will play Rayon, a cross-dressing fellow AIDS patient who meets Ron in the hospital. The role was considered a choice won and the producers were close to casting
it last week, when Garner came aboard. Leto, whose past credits include _Requiem For A Dream_, _Girl, Interrupted_ and _Lord Of War_, is repped by CAA and Untitled; CAA and Cassian Elwes rep
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