Jared Leto Touts ‘Secret Project’ With Gucci’s Alessandro Michele

WHAT YA GOT COOKIN’?: Not content with being a poster boy for Alessandro Michele’s designs, Jared Leto hopes to soon have a collaboration cooking with the Gucci creative director. The American actor and musician, who is the face of the Gucci Guilty fragrance and often wears the label on the red carpet, is directing his first feature film, set in the Seventies. Has he considered bringing Michele on board as costume designer? “Yeah, right — wouldn’t that be incredible? I have a secret project that I’m talking to him about doing, which would be incredible to be able to work with him in that way,” Leto said after Gucci’s coed show in Milan on Wednesday, though that’s as much as he was willing to divulge. The Thirty Seconds to Mars singer has previously directed videos under the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins, which is lifted from a Dr. Seuss book. He recently signed on to helm the thriller “77” for Paramount Pictures, set at the time of heiress Patty Hearst’s kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army. “It’s about a police precinct in 1974 in Los Angeles called the 77th. The backdrop, the time period has to do with the SLA, the Black Panthers — just post-riots

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