{"id":208242,"date":"2025-10-08T04:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208242\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T04:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T04:37:09","slug":"jared-leto-praises-co-star-jodie-turner-smiths-performance-in-tron-ares-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/208242\/","title":{"rendered":"Jared Leto praises co-star Jodie Turner-Smith’s performance in ‘TRON: Ares’ and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jared Leto<\/a> is excited for fans to see “TRON: Ares.<\/a>”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Oscar winner, who stars as Ares in the upcoming new installment in the “TRON” franchise, spoke with “Good Morning America” at the film’s premiere in Los Angeles on Monday night and shared why he’s looking forward to fans seeing the movie.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I’m excited to be here celebrating — celebrating the movie, celebrating Jeff [Bridges<\/a>], listening to some music and celebrating movies that are in theaters the way they should be,” he said.<\/p>\n

Bridges reprises his role as Kevin Flynn from the previous “TRON” films for the new movie.<\/p>\n

Leto, who served as an executive producer on “TRON: Ares,” also shared that he saw the first “TRON” film in the theater in 1982.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leto stars in the new film alongside a star-studded cast, which includes Bridges, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Arturo Castro, Hasan Minhaj and Jodie Turner-Smith.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson, Jodie Turner-Smith, Jared Leto, Jeff Bridges, Greta Lee, Hasan Minhaj and Sarah Desjardins attend the World Premiere of Disney’s “Tron: Ares” at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, CA on October 06, 2025.<\/p>\n

Alberto E. Rodriguez\/Getty Images for Disney<\/p>\n

The actor had a sweet moment with Turner-Smith on Monday night’s red carpet and praised her performance in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She’s incredible in the movie,” Leto said.<\/p>\n

He added that he had to “talk her into doing the movie.”<\/p>\n

“She just kills it,” he said. “We have to find a way to do another one.”<\/p>\n

For her part, Turner-Smith said that she wouldn’t be in “TRON: Ares” if it hadn’t been for Leto.<\/p>\n

“He gave me such great advice in my audition and was so supportive,” she said. “It’s exciting to be a part of a film that he’s loved since he was a child.”<\/p>\n

According to a synopsis for the film, “‘TRON: Ares’ follows a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jared Leto arrives at the premiere of Disney’s “Tron: Ares” at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 06, 2025 in Hollywood, California.<\/p>\n

Maya Dehlin Spach\/WireImage<\/p>\n

The film is directed by Joachim R\u00f8nning.<\/p>\n

“TRON: Ares” arrives in theaters Oct. 10, 2025.<\/p>\n

Disney is the parent company of ABC, ABC News and “Good Morning America.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jared Leto is excited for fans to see “TRON: Ares.”\u00a0 The Oscar winner, who stars as Ares in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,3031,206],"class_list":["post-208242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-los-angeles","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}