Jared Leto skipped the Masters of the Universe premiere and has no interviews booked for the film

Jared Leto did not attend the Monday, May 18 world premiere of Masters of the Universe at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, and was not part of the Amazon MGM Studios presentation at CinemaCon earlier this spring. According to a Friday post by Jordan Ruimy at World of Reel, Leto also has no interviews booked to promote the film, and has not posted about Masters of the Universe to his 11.4 million Instagram followers.

The World of Reel post cites a Puck News source who said Leto “wasn’t thrilled” with the film. World of Reel separately speculates that Amazon may be downplaying Leto’s involvement, though Amazon MGM Studios has not commented publicly on the actor’s absence from the press push.

Leto plays Skeletor in the Travis Knight-directed Masters of the Universe, opposite Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam / He-Man, Camila Mendes as Teela, Idris Elba as Man-At-Arms, Kristen Wiig as the voice of Roboto, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Morena Baccarin, and Johannes Haukur Johannesson. Dolph Lundgren, who played He-Man in the 1987 Cannon Films adaptation, has a cameo and attended the Monday premiere, where he and Galitzine posed for photographers together on the purple carpet.

Photos and quotes from the premiere distributed by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and other outlets across the past week feature Galitzine, Mendes, Elba, Lundgren, Knight, and Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz, but no images of Leto in or out of costume from the event have surfaced in mainstream coverage. The film opens in U.S. theaters on June 5, 2026, with the review embargo still in place until June 2.

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Jared Leto skipped the Masters of the Universe premiere and has no interviews booked for the film

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