Jared Leto is Anne Hathaway’s “supernova” in the trailer for Apple TV Plus’ WeCrashed
The series follows the rise and fall of co-working space WeWork
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“Cubicles, ugly furniture, bad fluorescent lighting, death.”
That’s a pretty accurate description of office spaces across America, and it’s a problem WeWork founder Adam Neumann sought out to solve. The new Apple TV+ series, WeCrashed, charts the epic rise of the co-working business, its inevitable fall, and the whirlwind romance at the center of it.
It’s hard to tell if this is another great Jared Leto transformation or if it’s just difficult to tell what he really looks like anymore, but the flowing locks are working as he stars in the series as Neumann. Anne Hathaway takes on the role of WeWork’s chief brand and impact officer and Adam’s wife, Rebekah Neumann.
Kyle Marvin (The Climb), America Ferrera (Superstore), and O-T Fagbenle (The Handmaid’s Tale) star alongside Leto and Hathaway in WeCrashed.
The trailer opens with WeWork’s conception, and all of the ecstasy and partying that comes with establishing a viral business model. Under Adam’s kooky leadership, Rebekah and Miguel (played by Marvin) rise to the top of the business world with him. However, things begin to crumble as the losses begin to pile up—until they reach into the billions—and Rebekah tires of being a muse. She wishes to become a maverick and snag a Vanity Fair interview, and she refuses to be outshined by her husband, or anyone else.
Tension also begins to bubble up between Adam and Miguel, and the underlying question of the series becomes, “Does talent topple insanity?”
The series is created by Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello, who serve as writers, executive producers, and showrunners. WeCrashed is directed by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra (This is Us, Crazy, Stupid, Love), who serve as executive producers alongside Leto, Hathaway, Charles Gogolak, Natalie Sandy, Emma Ludbrook, Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy, and Aaron Hart.
The first three episodes of WeCrashed will premiere on Apple TV+ on March 18, after that, new episodes will air weekly on Fridays.
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I feel that, whatever your walk of life, everyone universally agrees that the world would be a marginally better place if Jared Leto were ritualistically sacrificed Wicker Man style.
I was absolutely psyched to see this until I saw he was starring. He’s the lone person in Hollywood who can make me not want to see a movie/show. Neumann was already an oddball, so I’m worried what Leto will want to do with the performance.
His continued employment is baffling. He’s annoying on screen and off, his performances scream “try hard as fuck,” and the method bullshit he pulls never translates to authentic emotion on screen.He should go back to whatever he was doing in Switchback, or, failing that, just take parts as small and unintelligible as Fight Club.
2 for 1: do that to Neumann and tell Leto to be more method
Did Tommy Wiseau get a new stylist?
You’re tearing me apart, Rebekah!
So anyway, how’s your sex life?
Man, Apple TV+ has been getting more and more of my attention.
That’s what I keep on telling my Netflix account
I worked for a company that had rented a WeWork office for about six months (late 2016-early 2017). It’s hard to say if it was an improvement over the cubicle-and-fluorescents office we’d been in before, because the Glass-Walled Nightmare (as I called it) was very visually confusing and kind of painful to look at, not to mention navigating around. Like being in a funhouse maze.At least there was unlimited free beer and coffee in the lobby, but the place was mentally oppressive in ways that the old-fashioned office hadn’t been.
I’m surprised your experience was so nightmarish, but I suppose it depends on your previous office, and which WW office you were put up in. I bounced around a few locations in Manhattan that were all vastly superior to the beige, claustrophobic midtown office I had been working out of prior. Open and airy, with a pleasant enough vibe. Obviously the company was/is a dumpster fire, but my experience was generally very positive. I suppose you could say that for a lot of startups.
The office we’d been in before was a typical open-plan office, but for complicated reasons there were only about 10 of us in an office sized for about 50 people (they’d had a 5-year lease, and then a corporate restructuring got rid of most of the employees). It wasn’t terrible, by modern standards; offices along the edge with lots of windows and light coming in, and a very chill company overall (amusingly, run by a bunch of efficient Germans).So when the lease ran out, they decided to move us to the WeWork location in Pasadena. I don’t know if it was better or worse than any other WeWork location, but while part of me said “whoa this is cool” another part of me said “Jesus Christ, I feel like I’m trapped in the cube from Cube.” At least we were in a sizable corner unit with a nice view, and my cow-orkers didn’t get any less chill, but every time I looked up from my computer, it was an endless, visually-confusing maze of lines and glass. I got used to it but it still bugged me even by the time I left six months later.On the bright side there were a shit-ton of EV chargers in the parking lot, and due to the inept way the company that owned the chargers set things up, I was able to get free charging all day every day. (Not to mention the free beer and coffee.) I mean, it wasn’t the worst experience I’ve ever had, not by a long shot, but the “layers of glass” effect isn’t something that everyone likes looking at, despite how cool it might sound.
offices along the edge with lots of windows and light coming in, and a very chill company overall (amusingly, run by a bunch of efficient Germans). I’m 95% sure that by German law, every office worker is required to have direct access to sunlight at their work station. My last job in the army was working in a clinic at one of the US bases in Germany. The building was specifically designed with several courtyards to meet the sunlight requirement for the German nationals who worked there. Me being American, though, and not subject to German labor laws, I got put in a converted broom closet for the 6 months I worked there.So, it’s nice that your German overlords applied their working standards when they didn’t strictly need to.
I have a client who was in one of their early spaces in DFW on six months free rent, and just as that was running out WW offered them another free space, plus moving expenses, to their newly built location in a recently-renovated square in downtown Ft. Worth. They didn’t pay a penny for occupancy for more than a year. So the business model seemed to be to provide as much free rent as possible to as many tenants as possible in order to fill up the locations. A bold strategy, Cotton, etc. But as least the space itself was a VAST improvement over every other co-working office I’d seen, which were mostly class B and C office building floors cut up into single offices or small suites, sharing a receptionist, conference room, printer and bathroom. No decor, no amenities, depressing as shit. So there was certainly a market for what WW was offering. But more interesting about the podcast that I wasn’t aware of is that they wanted peoples’ entire lives to revolve around WW. Schools, gyms, health and wellness, plus they managed to convince investors that their property management software somehow made them a tech company as well. They ended up valued like a combination of growth-stage tech, education and branded product companies, instead of a real estate business. Which ultimately is all they were.
Between this and the JGL Uber series on Showtime, tech limited series are having a boom.
will watch because I find Hathaway one of the more magnetic actresses out there, wish it wasn’t Leto but I guess he seems an appropriate choice here.
Leto feels like an actually inspirsed choice as Adam Neumann cannot feel like a normal person and I don’t mean that in a praising way.I also really dig that they seem to be featuring the initial business partner in this as his role in the story and how prominent he was in the company at different stages is such a crucial component. It would have been easy to just make it about Adam and Rebekah, but that would have also robbed an important perspective.
The Joker and Catwoman, together at last.
“You’re tearing me apart Hathaway!” -Leto.
Just reading Jared Leto’s name makes me feel exhausted.
I still can’t believe the final draft is that terrible title.
I have to disagree with the consensus here, I think Leto can kill this. The role requires a slimy, culty, superficially charismatic personality. Leto can knock that out of the park.