Jared Leto ‘Stayed in Touch’ with Real-Life Elizabeth Holmes: ‘Not Everyone Is One Thing’

Jared Leto may have played WeWork founder Adam Neumann for AppleTV+’s “WeCrashed,” but the Oscar winner has a surprising real-world connection to another Silicon Valley tech titan: Elizabeth Holmes.During a Variety Actors on Actors roundtable with “The Dropout” star Amanda Seyfried, who portrayed Holmes on the Hulu series, Leto revealed he formerly “stayed in touch” with Holmes after presenting her with a Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year Award in 2015.“I had heard her speak in Palo Alto.

She was great onstage.

She was incredibly smart, funny — and then I met her after that, and I liked her a lot,” Leto said.

“But no indication that things weren’t great in her life and at the company.

And then I gave her an award.”Leto added, “We stayed in touch after that and talked a few times, but my experience with her was always quite lovely.

Not everyone is one thing.

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