Jared Leto, 'Free Solo's' Alex Honnold and Co-Director Jimmy Chin Rock Climb in Los Angeles

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Climber and subject of Oscar-nominated documentary 'Free Solo,' Alex Honnold and Oscar winner Jared Leto climb with the film's co-director Jimmy Chin at Sender One gym in Los Angeles.

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00:00My name is Jimmy Chin and we are here in Los Angeles to get ready to shoot with Alex Honnold and Jared Leto who are coming here to climb.

00:08Oh yeah, that looks pretty good.

00:27I've climbed and filmed and shot with Jared and Alex a few times, mainly in Yosemite.

00:33Jared likes to come out and you know, often times when we're out in the valley, he'll check in and be like, hey, are you guys out there?

00:40And we end up climbing with him a fair amount at this point, actually.

00:45Have you climbed here before? No. Look at this place, it's sick.

00:48Do you have any 5-2s here? Whatever, you're fine. 5-3?

00:52I think Jared and Alex have a really good climbing relationship. They kind of get each other.

00:57How are you feeling? Oh, you look muscular. I know, doesn't he look jacked?

01:02And I think Jared loves climbing and we all love climbing, so it's pretty easy.

01:09Dude, are you kidding me? Look at this. So what are you doing here?

01:13I'm going to do this yellow 13A. You got me? Okay. Let's see how this goes.

01:17I didn't really look at it. I got no plan. I'm just going to charge and see how it feels.

01:22Time to crush. All right, here we go.

01:24Nice. The thing about shooting climbing is that your ropes can't be in the frame.

01:38So once you've rigged the ropes and you get up there, you have to coil them up and sling them off of your harness.

01:45And it's actually a pretty good simulation of what we're doing on El Cap when we were shooting with Alex for Free Solo.

01:53You hear it a lot in the film where I say I'm going to go jog up the lines.

01:59This is jogging. It's basically these ascenders on the fixed line that we put up.

02:04These have seen a lot of mileage, huh?

02:06Yeah, those are the jugs from the movie. Are they? Yeah.

02:21Jimmy, they got you working today, huh?

02:23I know.

02:25Okay, I think we're good.

02:27Okay, now it's real. I gotta do it.

02:28Okay, you're good, Jared.

02:30Yes! Come on!

02:36Wait, I'm back-clipped.

02:38You're back-clipped. Classic. Don't worry, Jared. It's called Z-clipping.

02:41Z-clipped.

02:47Actually, I'm getting a little swing. Do you mind hanging there?

02:51Hang?

02:52Yeah.

02:53Take?

02:54I gotcha.

02:55He wants me to wait, which I was happy to do.

02:57Yeah, you just gotta do what the director tells you.

03:00It's called a technical take.

03:01No, no, don't worry. We don't count this.

03:03I was feeling pretty good, though.

03:04Yeah, you look good.

03:06Can you down-climb that move?

03:08Hold that right there.

03:12I think that's pretty good.

03:14Let's do one more like that.

03:17Okay, go for it.

03:18Okay.

03:19Maybe redo those moves again.

03:21Okay, I got it.

03:22Just that same move. Back again, if you can.

03:26Sorry.

03:27Ready?

03:28Yup.

03:30And then back.

03:32Hold on right there.

03:33Woo!

03:34Yeah.

03:37Getting the pump.

03:39Jeez, Luis.

03:40Man, it's hard work being a rock climber.

03:42I know. I know.

03:43Holy guacamole.

03:44Welcome to Pro Climbing Life.

03:46Okay, we got it.

03:47Thanks, Jared.

03:48Looking tight.

03:49Oh, man.

03:50I need to put that into my training regime.

03:51Photo shoots on the wall.

03:52No.

03:53Bro, that was hard.

03:54That was really fucking hard.

03:55I said to him, who knew that modeling and rock climbing together were like this brutal sport.

03:56Dude, imagine doing that stuff on our cap, you know?

03:58Like, hanging and taking pictures, like, yeah, looking beautiful.

03:59And you're like, oh my God, I'm so pumped.

04:00Just sitting up there.

04:01And you're like, oh my God, I'm so pumped.

04:03Just sitting up there.

04:04Yeah.

04:05Oh my God.

04:06I'm so pumped.

04:07I'm so pumped.

04:08Yeah.

04:09Just sitting up there.

04:10I'm so pumped.

04:11In the back of the day, you're like, oh my God, I'm so pumped.

04:12I need to put that into my training regime.

04:14Photo shoots on the wall.

04:15No.

04:16Bro, that was hard.

04:17That was really fucking hard.

04:18I said to him, who knew that modeling and rock climbing together were like this brutal

04:20sport.

04:21Dude, imagine doing that stuff on our cap, you know?

04:23Like hanging and taking pictures, like, yeah, looking beautiful.

04:26and you're like, oh my god, I'm so pumped.

04:27Just sitting up there.

04:35OK.

04:36And then a couple with.

04:37Don't act awkward.

04:38With me.

04:40And then you go in for the end chain.

04:41Oh, yeah.

04:42Yeah, that's what you did.

04:44Hey, no, it's really weird.

04:45Careful shit.

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