Claire Danes he is seven years younger than her My so-called life love interest Jared Leto — Nevertheless, he handled his romantic scenes with professionalism.
“A little (discomfort), but it was fine,” Danes, 46, said the guardian on a Friday, October 31, the profile of his kisses on the screen. “I had barely kissed a guy and here I was kissing this Adonis, and I didn’t even know how to interpret the stage directions.”
Danes landed the role of Angela Chase My so-called life when he was only 14 years old. Leto, now 53, was 21 when he played his on-screen love, Jordan Catalano.
“Like (the script) said I had to kiss his face, and I didn’t know what that meant,” Danes told the British newspaper. “I didn’t know there was any other ground that could be explored.”
In August 1994, the world was introduced to the short but timeless romance of Angela Chase and Jordan Catalano on the ABC classic My So-Called Life. Although it only lasted one season, the beloved ’90s drama starring Claire Danes, Jared Leto and others, made a lasting impression. See where the stars of My So-Called Life are now!
She continued: “(Being a teenager) is very Kafkaesque. It’s a really wild ride, and there I was, having a parallel one as a fictional me.”
Despite Danes and Leto’s questionable on-screen age difference, the actress said she never felt exploited.
“(The crew were) benevolent, bona fide adults, so it was a very solid, sane environment,” Danes said. “That was lucky. Not all environments are.”
Danes, however, is unsure whether casting actors with the same age gap would yield the same results in today’s film industry.
Claire Danes and Jared Leto filming ‘My So-Called Life’ in 1994.
ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)“I really don’t know. Could we? I honestly don’t know what my moral position is on that. Maybe because it was just my experience and I felt safe,” Danes said, explaining how the on-set intimacy coordinators have set a new standard for romantic scenes. “How come we didn’t have it before? I’m all for it. But it’s funny to work with an intimacy coordinator for the first time when I was 45. Like, it’s a little late.”
Danes attributes her perspective to the adults she looked up to at the time.
“My parents were always very present when I was growing up on set, making sure I was protected and that my needs were met,” he said. beast in me said the star. “(They made sure) he had a good tutor and enough rest, that kind of thing.”
Danes also revealed this acting icon Jodie Foster he also dished out pearls of wisdom.
“He said a lot of things, but he always urged me to stand up for myself,” Danes said of Foster, 62, who directed her in 1995. Home for the Holidays. “And also to relax.”
In the subsequent years My so-called life finishedLeto has spoken about what it was like to be objectified in the teen drama.
“Oh yeah, about time,” Leto said Rolling Stone in 2016. “I’m glad I picked up that, uh, baton or whatever.”
Despite playing a TV hottie, the Oscar winner admitted that his love life wasn’t as smooth as TV made it seem.
“You know what I learned about women? he knows absolutely nothing about women,” he joked at the time. “The older I get, they’re just people. I just see people.”