“I was a little shocked. It was like ‘Rip Van Winkle’.”
Jared Leto will never forget the day he learned about the coronavirus pandemic. After leaving a 12-day silent meditation retreat, he realized that the world had changed forever.
“In that short time, when I left, there was a shutdown, a state of emergency and the whole world changed,” he reminded Jimmy Fallon in The Tonight Show.
At the retreat, Leto explained that none of the participants received their phones because it was against the rules.
“There was no conversation, of course, no eye contact, no TV. And the teachers [made] a decision: ‘We are not going to disturb the participants,’ “he said.
But as soon as he left the retreat and called the phone again, the Suicide squad The actor was “a little shocked” to learn about the state of emergency the world was in.
“I drove all the way trying to be at peace and zen, to keep feeling. I came back and was a little shocked. Rip Van Winkle“, he said.” It was like reaching the zombie apocalypse. “
To stay calm, Leto tried to remember what he learned at the retreat. “[I] had this great tool to deal with stress and things in life, “he explained.”[But] I don’t think anything can prepare any [of] us what we all went through in the beginning. “
Leto has faced the rest of the quarantined coronavirus pandemic and is always up to date.
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