It's hard to believe that it was only one year and 21 days ago that the first trailer for Suicide Squad was revealed during the 2015 Comic-Con. What a long year and 21 days it has been! There have been at least four dozen trailers for Suicide Squad—each one revealed with a considerable amount of hype, and each one consisting of the same two-minutes of footage, slightly reorganized and repackaged to make it seem like a dark brooding anti-hero flick, a Deadpool-esque self-aware comedy, and an emotional action-drama! This is pretty much the norm in trailer-obsessed Hollywood. And since DC really needs to have a box office hit after the less-than-spectacular performance of its garbage Batman v Superman movie, the aggressive marketing campaign makes sense.

But, holy hell, it was around that time when we first heard about Jared Leto's goddamn gifts. Excitable news outlets reported that Method Actor Jared Leto sent co-star Margot Robbie a live rat. OMG! In October Will Smith claimed he never actually met Method Actor Jared Leto—only the Joker. Then, in November we heard about Method Actor Jared Leto sending bullets to Adam Beach and forcing the cast to call him Mr. J. Wow, guy.

Okay. It wasn't done there. The gifts have kept popping up in interviews with various cast members for more than a year: love letters, a dead hog, used condoms, etc., etc. We get it. The guy considers himself a "method actor," which, as I've said, is irritating if you're anyone except for maybe Daniel Day-Lewis. But you know what Daniel Day-Lewis doesn't do? Walk around telling everyone he meets that he's a method actor as if he's some sort of proud vegan.

And good lord, Method Actor Jared Leto still isn't done. Last night on The Tonight Show, Method Actor Jared Leto gave Jimmy Fallon a gift. Surprise! It's a fucking snake. Obviously, it's harmless, and in this situation, Method Actor Jared Leto isn't doing "really good homework" for his character by giving Fallon a live snake. No, this is basically him again using the whole method thing as an advertising campaign, which, again, isn't unusual. It's just really annoying.

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The absolute worst part about all of this is if you've seen the few moments of Leto's Joker in the trailer, he sounds and behaves exactly like Heath Ledger's Joker in The Dark Knight. (This, of course, is based solely off the trailers, I may have a different opinion after the movie is out. But I'm not the only one who thinks that.) Yes, he looks totally different, but that's thanks to the makeup and the costume crew. If you're going to go through all the trouble to tout your groundbreaking, serious actor process for a comic book movie, couldn't you at least make sure the performance is fundamentally unique and somewhat different from the guy who played the same character eight years ago?

Matt Miller Culture Editor Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.

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