LOS ANGELES, March 18 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway said they hope audiences draw their own conclusions about their characters in WeCrashed<\/i>, premiering Friday on Apple TV+.<\/p>\n Leto and Hathaway play WeWork founders Adam and Rebekah Neumann.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n \u201cThese are people who had very sincere intentions,\u201d Hathaway said on a recent Television Critics Association Zoom panel. \u201cI really think they wanted to make the world a better place. How they executed that is a lot more complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n The hour-long drama, WeCrashed<\/i>, depicts how Adam developed the idea for WeWork shared work spaces, raised billions of dollars from investors and ultimately resigned when he was unable to launch an initial public offering of stock.<\/p>\n Leto said creators Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello\u2019s approach appealed to him because it was not \u201ca takedown piece.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAdam set out to build something that he was proud of, something that he believed in,\u201d Leto said. \u201cAnd I think that he set his sights on a pretty impossible goal and achieved something pretty remarkable.\u201d\n<\/p>\n WeCrashed<\/i> shows Adam claiming he had interest from more investors than he really did. In the show, Adam convinces Rebekah to invest a wedding gift of $1 million her father gave her in the company.<\/p>\n The show flashes back and forth between the company\u2019s failed IPO and the development of WeWork. The company faced a lawsuit in 2021 for defaulting on a Manhattan lease, according to NBC News.<\/p>\n Some WeWork locations are still in use since Neumann\u2019s departure. Leto said the show can only attempt to depict what made Adam charismatic enough to attract such high-profile investors as SoftBank.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a painting,\u201d Leto said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a photograph. It\u2019s not a documentary. So it\u2019s impressionistic.\u201d<\/p>\n In the show, Adam persuades employees to join WeWork for shares of stock instead of salaries. Those shares become worthless when the company fails to launch an IPO.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of his superpowers is his ability to use words,\u201d Leto said. \u201cI related to that quite a bit, as any artist probably would.\u201d<\/p>\n Leto said he had visited WeWorks. Hathaway said she was unfamiliar with the company before playing Rebekah.<\/p>\n Hathaway said Adam and Rebekah\u2019s love story attracted her to WeCrashed<\/i>. In the first episode, Rebekah is not impressed when Adam asks her out.\n<\/p>\n Adam ultimately endears himself to Rebekah when he stands up to her boss at a yoga studio and demands that he pay her more. In addition to investing her $1 million wedding gift, WeCrashed<\/i> shows Rebekah reassuring Adam when potential investors criticize his plans.<\/p>\n \u201cJust because people do things that we might disagree with doesn\u2019t automatically make them bad,\u201d Hathaway said. \u201cAt the end of the day, I\u2019m just playing a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n Crevello said he and Eisenberg did not want to reduce the Neumanns to caricatures. Crevello said he hopes WeCrashed<\/i> provokes viewers to debate the WeWork founders.<\/p>\n \u201cWere these idealistic visionaries or was there a cynicism there, an opportunism? Or both?\u201d Crevello asked.<\/p>\n In their individual portrayals of Adam and Rebekah, Leto and Hathaway tackled their speaking voices. Adam was born in Israel and moved to the United States with his mother after his parents divorced.<\/p>\n Leto said he surrounded himself with Israelis to learn the accent. However, Leto said studying video of Adam taught him idiosyncrasies unique to his character.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a series of habits,\u201d Leto said. \u201cIt\u2019s the way your mouth makes shapes, and everyone learns them differently.\u201d<\/p>\n Rebekah was an aspiring actor when she met Adam. On WeCrashed<\/i>, Rebekah does a poor Russian accent in a performance of Chekhov\u2019s Three Sisters<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n \u201cI realize there\u2019s a difference between an accent and a voice,\u201d Hathaway said.<\/p>\n While Hathaway also studied speeches that Rebekah gave over the history of WeWork, Hathaway followed Leto\u2019s lead in creating her character.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had found a voice and, all of a sudden, I opened my mouth and Rebekah\u2019s voice came out,\u201d Hathaway said. \u201cIn that moment, we found each other on some acting level and as the characters.\u201d<\/p>\n New episodes of WeCrashed<\/i> premiere Fridays on Apple TV+.<\/p>\n