The movie JOBS is set for wide release on August 16 and Ashton Kutcher (who plays Steve Jobs in the movie) is now beginning to hit the publicity circuit to talk about the film. Last night he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and discussed how he missed a chance to meet Steve Jobs six months before Jobs’ death and his decision to play Jobs.

In an other interview with The Verge, Kutcher describes how he felt almost compelled to take on the role of Jobs out of love for the Apple co-founder.

To prepare for the role, Kutcher assembled a 15-hour SoundCloud compilation of Jobs’ speaking voice, including both public presentations and more candid recordings that captured his habits outside of public life. “There were two versions of him, and I got this from a lot of friends of his that I talked to,” Kutcher said. “There was the guy who went on stage and presented things, and then there was the guy who was in the boardroom, who was working on a product, who was having an intimate conversation. And I tried to find little snippets of stuff where he wasn’t aware that he was being recorded or speeches that he didn’t think anyone was going to hear, so I could get a little more of who he honestly was.”

 Source [MacRumors]