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Part 1 of GQ interview: This is what it's like, getting lost with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. "Oh boy. Dude," he mutters to himself as he steers his gray 2005 Honda Accord hybrid around a flat, arid stretch of the San Fernando Valley, the place where he grew up. We're trying—and failing—to find his alma mater, Van Nuys High School. "This is funny. It's been a long time," he says, laughing as he turns right, then left, then right again. Because Joe (as he likes to be called) is focusing on the road, it's easy for me to appraise his otherworldly features without seeming like a letch. The planes of his face, the pale skin, the gymnast's build. Dressed in a white T-shirt with a red circle on it, gray chinos, and a dusty pair of Vans, a slight stubble scruffing up his square chin and a red plastic watch cinched to his left wrist, the actor who's appeared in films as varied as 50/50, Inception, and this summer's Batman sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, doesn't look his age, which is 31. We pull up to a nondescript campus dotted with the beige double-wide trailers that are synonymous with California's overcrowded public-education system. "Here it is," Joe says triumphantly. But it isn't. This is an elementary school, not a high school, I say. "Interesting," Joe replies, which is what I'm thinking, too. A street sign—Ranchito Avenue—sparks a memory: One of Joe's best friends in high school lived on this street. Worth a try. But when we turn a corner, we come up empty. "Fucking hell," Joe says, laughing again. "I have a really terrible sense of direction." Maybe it's farther west, I suggest gently. "Yeah, maybe," he says, turning the car around. "I'm starting to think I'm maybe on the right track now," he says, his brown eyes twinkly. Already he's shown me a park where the 10-year-old Joe played flag football. He's taken me over Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the route he and his mom traveled every day to auditions, beginning when he was 6. After asking me to hold his sunglasses, he's even summoned the graceful physicality he often displays in his work to do some tumbling, springing backward into the air. Then, having slightly bobbled that first backflip, he's grinned and tried again. And the second time, he stuck the landing. Now, as we drive past a black-clad skateboarder with a Mohawk so spiky it could draw blood, Joe tells me there was a time when he disdained sidewalk surfers "because I grew up here, where skating started, and most of those guys were dicks." But that guy, the one we just passed? "That guy looks pretty cool," he says. When I ask if he went to his prom at the high school we're having trouble locating, he sheepishly says no. "I was a sort of serious little dude—snobby. I thought girls my age were very frustrating. They were, like, looking in their compact mirrors and shit, and I thought that was evil," he says, adding that he was in danger of becoming "a hopeless ivory-tower douchebag. I'm a little more forgiving now. I've grown to laugh at myself a little bit more than I did." When we finally come upon Van Nuys High, a security guard at the front door sends us to the main office. "We have lots of liability issues," the guy says, explaining why we must get permission to wander around. Joe thanks the guy, but as we head down a hallway, he whispers: "We're not going to go to the main office." Left, then right, and we find ourselves in a sunny courtyard teeming with hundreds of teenagers. They're hurrying to class, trying to beat the bell, and I can't help but notice that many are wearing T-shirts and chinos and Vans. "This is pretty fucking awesome, dude," Joe says, grinning. "We came at just the right time." ··· Our adventure began at the Chateau Marmont hotel on the Sunset Strip, where Joe was greeted warmly by employees in crisp outfits who knew him by name. This made him uncomfortable. "I've been here a lot recently," he was quick to explain, "because it's a good place to have meetings. I'm directing this movie"—it's a coming-of-age story he wrote—"and that means lots of meetings." We didn't stay. Instead, we got in his aging vehicle, whose enviro-conscious reputation he calls "a sham" and whose make and model he asked me not to mention. "Don't put this in the story," he said, even as I told him I was going to. "It's so boring. I hate cars. Let's say it's a magic carpet!" His career, certainly, is flying high and steady: He's about to be in four movies. In addition to The Dark Knight, he's got Premium Rush, a bike-messenger-under-siege action flick due out in August, followed by Looper, a sci-fi adventure, in September. In December's Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic, Joe depicts the son of the sixteenth president, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who suggested Joe for the part. Directors who've worked with Joe laud his collaborative spirit and uncommon versatility. No slouch in the serious-drama department (2008's Stop-Loss), he brings an arch intelligence to comedy that has made headbanging hilarious (last year's Hesher) and, yes, even cancer funny (50/50, also from last year). He can do noir (2005's Brick) and popcorn fare (2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra). Add to all that his eagerness to sing and dance ("What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"—an impromptu and slightly twee YouTube duet with Zooey Deschanel) and Joe emerges as a sort of old-timey showman. Imagine Fred Astaire hiding in the body of an edgy intellectual who's as likely to quote Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig as RZA, a founder of the Wu-Tang Clan. Read More http://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201208/joseph-gordon-levitt-interview-gq-august-2012#ixzz20srUtQEF

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I was wondering about that too, thanks Kerri! Various pics of Bar and friends at Eyal Golan's show: http://www.ynet.co.i...4256686,00.html Translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=iw&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mako.co.il%2Fentertainment-celebs%2Flocal%2FArticle-834af6e67249831006.htm%26sCh%3D46bbe76404864110%26pId%3D976147211

Exclusive: 'Looper' Director Rian Johnson On Transforming Joseph Gordon-Levitt & The Hour Of Deleted Scenes On The DVD Fortunately, transformation is something that Gordon-Levitt loves, and he rose to the challenge. As the director told us, "Joe really loves transforming himself into the part. Working with him on 'Brick,' one of the first things we found was the voice, this really flat accent, listening to a lot of Tom Waits. Joe really finds his foothole into characters by finding these exterior things. The jacket he wore in 'Brick,' stuffing his hands into the pockets to create this shell. So doing a physical transformation is, in my experience, part of how he works. And this was the opportunity to do that on a grand scale. But in addition to the mimicry involved, he's giving a real performance, and creating a real character, who isn't young Bruce Willis, it's a character believable as a young Bruce Willis. But it's completely Joe's character, and I'm really excited for people to see the movie as a whole." Unusual for a film of its profile, "Looper" was made and financed independently, with Sony and FilmDistrict acquiring the film for the U.S. a year ago. As Johnson explains, his existing relationship with the financiers gives him a good deal of freedom. "Endgame Entertainment financed it, and the way they work is that we pre-sell the foreign, based on the cast and the script, and then they cover the gap in financing. Sony are putting it out, but they picked it up after it was done. So we were just dealing with Endgame, and the guy who runs Endgame, Jim Stern, is a filmmaker himself, we have a great collaborative relationship with him, and it's not at all like we're approaching a board of directors or something." What this did mean, however, is something that's likely to become more common over time; the film was partially shot in Shanghai to help attract Chinese financing and distribution, and Johnson confirmed reports from a while back that the country will get a slightly different version of the film. "There's a scene in the film that takes place in China, that we actually went over to Shanghai for. It's a sort of montage sequence, a sequence unto itself. We went over there and shot for two weeks and cut this sequence, and then during the normal course of cutting, everything gets trimmed down. So in the finished film, the final sequence is about half of what we originally had in there in the original cut, and it works best as the shortest version. But our Chinese distributor asked if we'd be cool having an earlier version of that sequence in the film, which is a little longer and you see a little bit more of China, just for a Chinese audience. It was still my cut of the sequence, it was just an earlier cut, which had a little bit more in there. And just that specific sequence. And I didn't see any harm in it, but the American [cut] is in my mind the stronger one." And while that scene probably won't be seen on the DVD, there'll be plenty of material for the home video relase: "There's a lot of deleted scenes on the DVD, nearly an hour's worth of stuff, stuff I was really proud of, that we cut just in trying to get the movie as tight as possible. I don't think the original China montage is there, though." The film's finally hitting theaters at the end of September, although it's been virtually completed since the start of the year. We asked Johnson if the distributors had hung on to the film to capitalize on Gordon-Levitt's role in "The Dark Knight Rises," but the director suggested that wasn't the major reason: "There's that, but more so than that, we wanted to avoid summer, 'cause there's all these huge movies. It made sense for a lot of reasons." As for what's next (you can read more about that here), Johnson did helm another episode of "Breaking Bad" for the fifth season that got underway last night. Don't go to him for spoilers on how it might end, though: "One of my favorite memories of this episode I did," Johnson told us, laughing "was sitting around the monitor with Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, arguing with them about how we thought the show was going to end." That episode will be on in a few weeks, and you can catch "Looper" in theaters on Friday, September 28th.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's summer secret Joseph Gordon-Levitt has 500 things to fill his days this summer — including filming his directorial debut (which stars Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore), tending to his record label and ramping up for the release of several new films with August’s bike-messenger thriller “Premium Rush” and September’s promising sci-fi film “Looper,” in which he and Bruce Willis play the same contract killer at different ends of a time-travel adventure. And then there’s the topic that everyone wants to hear about the most but Gordon-Levitt wants to talk about the least: “The Dark Knight Rises,” the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which arrives July 20 with Gordon-Levitt as one of the stealth weapons in its all-star ensemble. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John Blake, left, and Gary Oldman as Commissioner Gordon in “The Dark Knight Rises.” (Ron Phillips / Warner Bros. Pictures) If you approach Gordon-Levitt now you’ll get the same answer he offered last year during an on-the-set interview between scenes filmed at the University of London. “I’ve been asked not to say anything,” said Gordon-Levitt who (according to a Warner Bros. press release) plays John Blake, a Gotham City beat cop assigned to special duty under the command of Commissioner Gordon. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe in “Looper.” (TriStar Pictures) The Internet rumor mill nearly burned out its bolts and belts with speculation that the “Inception” costar was playing the role of the Joker, the Holiday Killer, the Riddler, Robin the Boy Wonder, Azrael or pretty much any other comic book character who has passed through Gotham City other than Batgirl and Clark Kent. Hmm, wait … he could play Kent if he put on some glasses. Nolan is notoriously protective of his plots and plans, but Gordon-Levitt said that shows a deep understanding that modern mythology films rely on tension and revelation, which can be easily undermined in this era of information saturation. “Chris is very savvy in the way that he knows the story begins before you reach the theater,” Gordon-Levitt said. “What you know and don’t know, what you expect and the way a story unfolds … I will say this movie is very much a conclusion. This feels like a final chapter, it’s not just another one in a series. This is a final statement.” Nolan is also savvy enough to let fans spin their wheels. In addition to bats and cats, a wild goose might be chased across Gotham City every now and then, Time will tell — and that could also be the motto of “Looper,” which reunites Gordon-Levitt with “Brick” director Rian Johnson. Gordon-Levitt plays a mob hit man who specializes in killing people in the future but problems arise when his next assignment is the incarnation of himself 30 years from now. Gordon-Levitt studied Willis to find his rhythms as a speaker and in his body language. For director Johnson, watching his two stars morph into different versions of the same man was startling. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Sony’s “Looper” panel at Comic-Con International. (Credit: Kevin Winter / Getty Images) “Once we cast Bruce we knew that we would be taking the cues from him, and Joe started working on this transformation, and it was strange for people,” the filmmaker said. “Joe’s an incredible actor, so I never worried that it would be just imitation. I knew it would go deeper. But it was still shocking to watch it happen.” Gordon-Levitt also will be seen later this year in Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” (he plays Robert, the son of the 16th president) and beyond that, in “Don Jon’s Addiction” (on-screen he’s a porn addict, off-screen he’s the writer-director of the indie film). These are chameleon seasons for the former child star who has covered a lot of ground since his breakthrough role in the TV comedy “3rd Rock from the Sun.” “On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be,” Gordon-Levitt said. “Our identity and our nature can be in our control. I don’t just mean the presentation of our identity. Look at Gary Oldman — look at his characters in ‘True Romance’ or the ‘Harry Potter’ films or in the Batman movies — you can’t be as good as he is by doing it just on the surface. We have the power to be who we want to be, whoever that is

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What I can clear up? I'm ok for to do that But I'm sorry I was absent since 3-4 days so I'm lost LOL Hehe sorry Amandine, what I ment is: since you translated the dog part, maybe you could specify which dog Or someone else who speaks French could explain what was said about Leo/the dog? Didn't mean the whole subject to blow up But indeed, I don't think Bar has Django too, maybe another dog? Bari, you never fail to dissapoint me edit: Nevermind, the dog is Pucci, thanks to Kerri

I'm not sure too... If she was ever papped with Django I'm sure I would have recognized. Does anyone else remember some pics of Leo and Lukas with Django? Those are the most recent that come to my mind, but I'm not sure if those were before or after the breakup. Maybe Amandine could clear this up?

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Siggy: http://imgur.com/CrTOn Avi: http://imgur.com/pP2Cf Akdkgotjdjshfifod just browsed some videos of Cintia, she's so adorable!! Coming up later

bar stalking leo? whaaaaat? i figured i'd post this response here seeing as it could spark a discussion that would clutter the other thread. i highly doubt she's "stalking" him, that's absurd +1 JustJared? And another question, Ox you said Leo got Django from Gisele, now he has given him to Bar? At least that's what seems from Amandines generous translation Or has/had Leo more dogs?

Thank you Ox Welcome to the board, Spanishlover!

'Have you ever seen anything as cute as these puppies? ' upload pictures

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I'll try that, thanks a bunch!

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Look at Django!! His name is actually Django, right? What an coincidence!

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