Disney, we have a problem. Five months out from the release of Tron: Ares, the studio’s $200 million sequel to the beloved Eighties sci-fi movie, one of the project’s stars, Jared Leto, has been engulfed in a #MeToo scandal. An Oscar-winning actor and frontman of the band 30 Seconds To Mars, Leto, has been accused by nine women of inappropriate behaviour – including claims his conduct was “predatory, terrifying and unacceptable”.
Leto has “expressly denied” the accusations reported by Air Mail. They include an assertion by one woman that Leto approached her in 2006 when she was 16 and he was 35. She says Leto, who was seated in an LA cafe with then-19-year-old actor Ashley Olsen, grabbed the woman by the arm. “I looked down, and it was Jared Leto,” she said, adding: “We had a quick conver