Watch Jared Leto CLIMB UP the Empire State Building
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00:00 ♪ One truth that I know ♪
00:03 ♪ Is that life's beautiful ♪
00:06 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
00:09 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
00:12 - Jared Leto gets about 30 seconds closer to Mars
00:15 climbing up the Empire State Building.
00:17 - You know, I just like to climb.
00:19 It's something I've always loved to do.
00:21 - The actor kept his love for it going,
00:23 this time on the iconic New York City skyscraper.
00:27 Jared's starting his climb at the observation deck
00:29 on the 86th floor.
00:31 ♪ One truth that I know ♪
00:34 ♪ Is that life's beautiful ♪
00:38 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
00:40 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
00:43 - The musician scaled 1,200 feet to reach the top
00:46 and made history as the first person to climb to the top.
00:49 Fresh off his latest adventure,
00:51 Jared talked all about it on the Today Show.
00:54 - I made it, I'm alive.
00:55 - All right, so you made it to the top.
00:57 - Yes, yes, I made it to the top.
00:58 I was just saying I saw my mother
01:00 in the window of the 80th floor,
01:02 and that was a nice surprise.
01:03 - What is it like at the top to look out at New York?
01:05 - It's incredible, it's incredible.
01:07 To watch the sunrise overlooking this city,
01:10 it's meant so much to me.
01:12 Ever since I was a kid, you know,
01:13 New York stood for the place
01:16 that you went to make your dreams come true.
01:18 - But scaling the Empire State Building was no easy task.
01:22 - I have to be honest, it was very, very hard.
01:24 - Yeah, I bet.
01:25 - It was very hard.
01:26 It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.
01:28 - In what way?
01:29 - You know, just the endurance that it took,
01:32 the stamina that it took.
01:35 And it was very sharp, actually.
01:37 Yeah, you can see a clip of me climbing there.
01:40 - What makes for the perfect building to climb?
01:42 - You know, one that you think you might not fall off of
01:46 is a good one.
01:47 - I'd say so.
01:48 - Yeah, Jared's no stranger to daring stunts.
01:51 Back in August, he bungee jumped off the top of the stage
01:54 during his band, 30 Seconds to Mars' set at Lollapalooza.
01:58 ♪ This got me stuck ♪
02:03 ♪ Stuck ♪
02:05 - It was really fun.
02:06 It was a good excuse to do something different
02:09 that we hadn't done before.
02:11 And that was our first show back in a really long time.
02:13 So, but generally the shows are pretty physical.
02:18 - Yeah.
02:19 - And we like that.
02:20 - Oh, and Jared did it again
02:22 at the band's Austin City Limits Music Festival appearance.
02:25 (crowd cheering)
02:28 Well, Jared's latest action-packed task
02:36 had a special connection to 30 Seconds to Mars.
02:39 It was to announce their upcoming Seasons World Tour.
02:42 We are going on tour.
02:44 (crowd cheering)
02:45 ♪ Stuck ♪
02:46 - I love making things and sharing things with the world.
02:51 And you wanna connect with people, you know,
02:53 but it's more important to connect with 10 people
02:55 in a very deep and meaningful way
02:56 than it is a thousand people
02:58 in a way that's not deep and meaningful.
03:01 - Safe to say Jared's on a high doing what he loves.
03:05 ♪ One truth that I know ♪
03:08 ♪ Is that life's beautiful ♪
03:11 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
03:14 ♪ Life is beautiful ♪
03:18 (upbeat music)
03:20 (dramatic music)
03:23 [BLANK_AUDIO]