<P> After a five years hiatus from filming, Leto returned to act in the drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), directed by Jean - Marc Vallée and co-starring Matthew McConaughey . Leto portrayed Rayon, a drug - addicted transgender woman with AIDS who befriends McConaughey's character Ron Woodroof . In order to accurately portray his role, Leto lost 30 pounds, shaved his eyebrows and waxed his entire body . He stated the portrayal was grounded in his meeting transgender people while researching the role . During filming, Leto refused to break character . Dallas Buyers Club received widespread critical acclaim and became a financial success, resulting in various accolades for Leto, who was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor--Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role . </P> <P> In 2014, Leto premiered the documentary series Into the Wild, which tells the story behind the concert tour of the same name by Thirty Seconds to Mars that propelled the group into arenas around the world and was certified by the Guinness World Records as the longest running tour in the history of rock music . The series was produced by Leto and Emma Ludbrook and was released through the online platform VyRT . On November 3, 2015, it was announced that Thirty Seconds to Mars were working on their fifth studio album . </P> <P> In December of that year, Warner Bros. confirmed that Leto would play the role of the Joker in Suicide Squad (2016), a supervillain film based on the comic book series of the same name . The film opened to generally negative reviews from critics, but Leto's performance was praised despite his character's limited screen time . In April 2016, it was announced that Leto would appear in the film The Outsider (2018), directed by Martin Zandvliet . </P> <P> In August 2016, Thirty Seconds to Mars revealed they had signed to Interscope Records and confirmed that a new album will be released in 2017 . That same month Leto was cast as the villain Niander Wallace in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Blade Runner . Leto later also appeared in 2036: Nexus Dawn, a promotional short film that takes place before Blade Runner 2049 directed by Luke Scott and co-starring Benedict Wong . </P>

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