Joseph Gordon-Levitt Reveals His Favorite Film Role He’s Ever Played
Joseph Gordon-Levitt reveals his favorite film role he's ever played is the hitman Joe in Rian Johnson's Looper and explains why he loves it. Johnson and Gordon-Levitt have worked well together for the better part of 15 years, having first collaborated on the filmmaker's feature directorial debut Brick while Gordon-Levitt would provide cameos in The Brothers Bloom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out. Alongside Gordon-Levitt, the cast for Looper included Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, Piper Perabo, Paul Dano, Pierce Gagnon and Garret Dillahunt.
Looper is set in a near-future in which time travel hasn't been invented yet, but further in the future it has and is utilized by the Kansas City crime syndicate to send targets back to be executed in a time in which they don't exist. The sci-fi thriller revolves around Gordon-Levitt's Joe, a contract killer who is confronted with the older version of himself and accidentally lets him escape, putting him in the crosshairs of the mob and in a race against time to find his future self before it's too late. Gordon-Levitt shared the role of Joe with Bruce Willis in a mind-bending blend of prosthetics and time jumps and now the star is opening up about how it came to be.
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In honor of his work on Showtime's Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber, Joseph Gordon-Levitt sat down with Vanity Fair to reflect on some of his most iconic scenes in his career. When looking at Rian Johnson's Looper, the star recalled the lengths went to make him look like his co-star Bruce Willis and why his work as a younger version of the Golden Globe winner was his favorite film role he's ever played. See what
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