Well, that’s one way to discover the novel coronavirus. Throughout an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night, Jared Leto remembered the surreal experience of emerging from a 12- day silent retreat to a world that had been completely closed down by COVID-19 “It was like coming out to the zombie apocalypse,” Leto informed Fallon. “It was stunning.”

Leto has actually been open about the unusual experience in the past– “Left the other day into a very different world,” the Oscar winner tweeted in March– however host Jimmy Fallon could not stop himself from inquiring about it throughout their Monday night interview. “I couldn’t imagine this happening to me, or to anybody,” stated Fallon. “But you didn’t even know that whatever had been closed down. You were on a retreat. Is this true?”

” Definitely real, yeah,” replied Leto. He discussed that he was one a “two-week silent meditation” that required him to eliminate his phone and any other distractions, so he had no concept that the COVID-19 case count in the United States was increasing tremendously. “Just in that short quantity of time, when I came out it was a shutdown, a state of emergency, the entire world had actually altered,” stated Leto. “However when we were in there, they didn’t inform us. We didn’t have our phones, there was no talking, of course, no eye contact, no TELEVISION. And the teachers, they made a decision: ‘Let’s not disrupt the individuals.'”

The Suicide Team star added that he “didn’t turn on [his] phone up until [he] went back to LA,” so he actually had a “serene” drive back from the retreat. Naturally, that didn’t last long. “I returned and I was sort of surprised. It resembled Rip Van Winkle,” he said, a reference to Washington Irving’s short story about a man who goes to sleep for 20 years and awakens in a post-Revolutionary America.

” I had this terrific tool to deal with ‘stress’ and things in life,” continued Leto, “But I do not think anything can quite prepare any of us for what all of us went through in the start.” Even 10 months later on, that could not be more real.

Watch Jared Leto state his “stunning” intro to a COVID-affected world above.

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