Jared Leto quit acting to be a self-help rock messiah.

By: Lizzy Goodman

Jared Leto stands in front of a giant cross in the apse of St. Peter’s church on West 20th Street. Unusually, and perhaps out of respect for the setting, his shirt is on. Tonight is the second to last show of his band 30 Seconds to Mars’s two-year tour in support of its third album, This Is War. They’ve just played two nights at Hammerstein Ballroom before nearly 4,000 people to celebrate setting a Guinness World Record for most shows played to support a single album: 309. This is a more intimate gathering for 350 members of the ­"Echelon”—his superfans. They’re mostly female: freckled teenagers out with their mo ... Loe rohkem »