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"Jared Leto has revealed the extent of his extreme weight loss for his latest film role in a series of shirtless photographs taken by Terry Richardson.  The 40-year-old actor and 30 Seconds to Mars frontman can be seen lifting his T-shirt up in one of the black shots to expose his emaciated torso on photographer Richardson&amp;#039;s website.  Leto plays a HIV-positive transvestite in The Dallas Buyers Club and recently showed off his facial hair-free face at the 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards in New York.  The film also stars a skinny Matthew McConaughey, who&amp;#039;s shed a huge amount of weight to play Texan electrician Ron Woodroof who contracts AIDS through drug abuse in the late 1980s.  Speaking about losing weight, Leto told Vulture: &amp;quot;Your body goes through weird stages. Sometimes it&amp;#039;s hard to hold on to water. But for me, it&amp;#039;s not about the most weight I can lose, it&amp;#039;s more to represent the character. &amp;quot;Historically, people have done it for pursuit of self, to achieve a meditative state, so I&amp;#039;m hoping for that. It&amp;#039;s not necessarily a bad thing.&amp;quot;  See more stars who&amp;#039;ve lost weight for film roles:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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