Jared Leto appears on the cover of Candy magazine dressed in drag. In the photo, the musician and actor wears a light pink wig, fake eyelashes and red lipstick. Photogapher Terry Richardson shot the July cover.
Leto, the frontman for 30 Seconds to Mars, will be featured in the upcoming The Dallas Buyers Club, also starring Matthew McConaughey.
In it, he plays a transsexual with AIDS, which required him to lose a drastic amount of weight, NY Daily News reports. He also dressed his drag for the movie.
For the magazine, Leto posed in multiple different women’s outfits and wigs. He sported blonde hair and frizzy dark brown hair inside the issue’s pages.
Other celebrities who have posed in drag for the magazine are Chloe Sevigny and James Franco , Daily Mail reports.
While shooting the film, Leto wrote to his Twitter followers that he understands what women go through to look good. “Ladies, I feel your pain. What I have learned today: Beauty is pain. Wax on wax off,” he wrote.
image: Candy magazine