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♪ do you believe you can walk on water ♪
♪ do you believe you can win this fight tonight ♪
Yes.
There he is, Oscar winner Jared Leto and his band, 30 seconds to Mars with their new song
"Walk on water," their first new song in 4 years.
The band is going to be performing this Sunday on the MTV Video Music Awards.
Welcome, Jared.
Thank you.
I love this song.
Thank you very much.
It's right here.
Yes, yes.
First time at the VMAs here in the U.S.?
It's -- I think our first time performing at the VMAs in the U.S., yes.
A long time coming.
We're psyched about it.
Cool.
Tell us about the video.
Because I love that you had fans or whoever send in certain clips.
You see people all across the country doing whatever originally they do.
We did.
We shot on a single day on July 4th, and all 50 states, Puerto Rico and D.C., and created
a portrait of America.
We had over 92 crews running around the states capturing anything and everything, and the
footage we got back was absolutely amazing.
Sounds somewhat political.
You know, it's social.
And it does talk about politics.
The film is a companion piece to the album.
And the film, called "The day in the life of America" is apolitical.
And I took that stance because I didn't think you could really make a portrait of our country
if you were leaning in any direction too heavily.
And I think it's an important time to take a look at ourselves, who and what we are.
And the footage we got back.
We had 92 crews, we also had over 10,000 submissions from people that just sent in footage.
And it's mind-blowing.
Did you get any naughty submissions?
Because Jared has this appeal on women.
One of our stylists came up and said don't look in his eyes.
So people are sending you tape.
Did you get any funny ones?
Sucking you in.
It's coming!
Jared, I'm coming in.
We --
Where are my eclipse glasses?
We actually had quite a bit of controversial material, and you know, we followed people.
We covered events.
We followed stories.
One of the stories we followed was a young woman who is in the adult film business, and
we follow her throughout the day on July 4th as she goes to work.
And does what she needs to do, you know, to get by.
That's not in the video.
I didn't see that.
It's not -- well, it's not in that video.
It is a companion film?
Yeah, there's a documentary film that goes along with the album.
And the songs from the album will be the sound track to the film.
Neat.
Yeah.
Well, I love that "Walk on water" is going to be ESPN's college football theme song.
Yes.
Are you a big college football fan?
Yes.
But I can't really pledge any allegiance now, because I'm --
"30 seconds to Mars" is the theme song.
I don't want to get booed at any stadiums.
Oh, you're going to go on college game -- you can be the guest picker.
Yes.
So I'm going to stay pretty neutral right now.
But I like to rock climb.
That's actually my sport, is rock climbing.
That's a tough sport.
Yeah.
Where have you climbed?
I was reading you have climbed all these incredible mountains.
A lot of really beautiful places.
My favorite is yosemite.
And I love Joshua tree, which isn't too far from here.
But, yeah, climbing is my thing.
Do you run still?
I was a dork and I showed him my poster.
We love Prefontaine.
We're both runners.
Do you still do that?
I feel like you're a good runner.
He was a huge impact.
One of the first films I ever made.
And I studied him.
I spent time with his family.
And I learned a lot from him.
I mean, he was one of a kind.
Yeah.
He's you.
He did everything all-out.
And I think -- I don't know you.
You seem to do everything all-out, whatever you're doing, in your own terms.
Is there a little pre inside of you?
I think so.
I like to work really hard.
And, you know what Steve used to say is, he used to say, "I'm not better than the other
runners.
But I'm willing to bleed for it."
And I definitely can relate.
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Now I'm just dorking out.
We can move on.
I got lost in the eyes.
Steve Prefontaine coming to you.
1997.
The re-release.
The VMAs.
I will say, whenever we cover red carpet or whatever, I never care.
Never care what the men wear, unless it's you.
Look at this!
With something great?
I don't think about it too much.
And as you can see.
But I just have fun with it.
I think that, you know, men often get -- often times get the short end of the stick because
they feel like I've got to put on the penguin suit and show up -- but it's nice to express
yourself and have a little fun with it.
And I have a great relationship with Gucci and their friends and family now and we do
a lot of fun stuff together.
I imagine you'll be wearing Gucci at the VMAs.
I probably will.
It's not so bad.
Yeah.
Who makes those?
This is -- Gucci.
Of course.
My socks, I think, are probably from Costco or something.
They are the best ones.
And vans shoes.
Where I get my underwear.
Costco.
12-pack.
A little personal, but okay.
She's lost it.
Forget it!
with Jared Leto.