New Looper poster:

Video interview under the link:

http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Joseph-Gordon-Levitt-talks-Looper--playing-younger-Bruce-Willis:-5-facts/8829810

The movie is set in 2042. Gordon-Lewitt's character, Joseph Simmons, is a Kansas City mafia member and an assassin known as a Looper, who is paid to kill agents sent back in time by their employers. He is shocked to discover that his newest target is his older self. The film also stars Emily Blunt and is directed by Rian Johnson. It hits theaters on September 28.

Check out 5 facts about Joseph Gordon-Levitt and "Looper."

1. Bruce Willis was a surprise addition to "Looper."

"We didn't know it was going to be Bruce," Gordon-Lewitt, 31, told OTRC.com host Rachel Smith. "I've been involved with 'Looper' for many years. Rian and I are dear friends and he showed me the script several years ago. It wasn't until later that Bruce got involved, which was a huge victory for us, big fist pump moment, which was followed shortly thereafter by me going like, 'Wow, how am I going to do this?'"

2. Joseph Gordon-Lewitt used his iPod to study Bruce Willis' voice.

"I would watch his movies," he said. "I would rip the audio off of his music and listen on my iPod. He even recorded some of the voiceover lines for me and sent those to me so I could hear how it would sound in his voice."

3. Joseph Gordon-Levitt says Bruce Willis gave him the thumbs up when it came to impersonating him.

"He doesn't give those lightly," Gordon-Levitt added about the 57-year-old actor. "He's a very understated guy. He's just really soft-spoken and just so honest. He's the kind of guy that doesn't have anything to prove, so he won't butter you up or just say things to make you feel good. If he compliments you, he really meant, 'Yeah.' And it really meant a lot when he was like, 'Wow, you sound like me.'"

4. Working on "Looper" brought back childhood memories for Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

"Looper" stars child actor Pierce Gagnon, who played Logan on the CW show "One Tree Hill."

Gordon-Levitt is also a former television actor. He made his on-screen debut in 1988 with a part in the TV movie "Stranger on My Land" and a recurring role on the Michael J. Fox comedy series "Family Ties." In the 1990s, Gordon-Lewitt played Daniel Collins on the show "Dark Shadows" and George on "Roseanne" before he was cast in what became his breakout role - alien teenager Tommy Solomon on the sitcom "Third Rock From The Sun."

"He's a fantastic actor," Gordon-Levitt told OTRC.com about Gagnon. "He was 5 when we were shooting. I was 6 when I started as an actor, so it brought back a lot of memories for me."

" I was so proud of him," he added. He just came in and killed it. Never made us treat him like a kid. He always just earned our respect as a peer and a colleague and he just did a great job."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has no plans to shake it on the big screen.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt showcased some sexy dance moves (and a killer body) during a recently "SNL" hosting stint when he participated in a sketch spoofing the male stripper film "Magic Mike." However, the actor has no plans to star in a sequel to the popular summer movie.

" I think I was just trying to make people laugh," he said.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt On The Rise As Leading Man In Hollywood After Great Reviews For ‘Loopers’

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is no longer the fresh-faced youngster from 3rd Rock from the Sun. Instead, the 31-year-old actor is becoming one of Hollywood’s hottest actors after a year in which he anchored some of the biggest movies.

Since breaking through in 2009′s 500 Days of Summer, Gordon-Levitt has been taking bigger roles and appearing in more blockbuster movies. This summer he was one of the pivotal characters in the summer blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises, establishing himself as a star in the action-adventure realm after making a splash in Inception.

Now Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks to continue that streak with Loopers, a science-fiction adventure movie out this week. In the movie he plays the younger version of Bruce Willis, sent through time to kill himself.

Gordon-Levitt really committed to the role, The Sacramento Bee reported. In order to make himself look more like a younger Bruce Willis, he sat in a makeup chair for three hours a day, having his lips thinned, nose altered, and makeup and prosthetics added.

The illusion entailed three hours a day in a makeup chair.

“It is me sitting across the table from my future self,” Gordon-Levitt said of a scene with Willis. “It required a transformation.”

That wasn’t the only preparation Joseph Gordon-Levitt did for the role.

“I studied him quite a bit and watched his movies, and I ripped the audio off his movies,” Gordon-Levitt told the Sacramento Bee.

Gordon-Levitt’s performance in Loopers is earning him great reviews, and the movie is being called the best science-fiction film of the year. His reputation has spread so far that Hollywood.com referred to Gordon-Levitt as “The King of Science Fiction.”

The site says of his prowess in the science-fiction genre:

Gordon-Levitt has played a part in just about

every conceivable facet of contemporary science-fiction and fantasy

in his twenty-odd years as an actor. He’s tackled the otherworldly, the superhuman, the technologically profound, the transcendence of human conscience. He was even on a show about vampires. Gordon-Levitt’s new release

Looper

affords the actor the frontier of time-travel, a sci-fi staple dating back to stories of ancient Hindu and Judaic mythologies.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s rising star goes beyond science-fiction and action-adventure movies. He hosted the season premiere of Saturday Night Live this year, and will appears as Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln.

As the Sacramento Bee points out, his success is all the more impressive because of his background, saying that Joseph Gordon- Levitt blows up the idea that all child stars end up in rehab or on reality shows.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr...u5IekVWE6PJv.99

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Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire lead a cast of stars in a new public service announcement urging young voters to use social media to express the issues most important to them in the upcoming election.

Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, Ellen DeGeneres, Jonah Hill and Joseph Gordon Levitt also appear in the Vote 4 Stuff video unveiled Monday, joining other stars in a call to voters to post tweets, photos and short videos about concerns they feel deserve presidential attention.

“This is one of the most important elections of our lifetime,” said DiCaprio, whose production company, Appian Way, is a sponsor of Vote 4 Stuff. “We are using the power of social media throughout the Vote 4 Stuff campaign to incite bipartisan conversation around real issues, encourage registration and voting in November.”

Edward Norton, Sarah Silverman, Benicio Del Toro and Amanda Seyfried are also featured in the 2 ½-minute video, which promises that content created in response to it will be incorporated into Vote 4 Stuff’s future online efforts.

Among the concerns these stars reveal in the video: Jobs, marriage equality, climate change, foreign policy, reproductive rights, immigration, worker’s rights, teacher salaries and education.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt's LA Story

Joe talks to LA Mag about growing up in LA and why he returned. It’s a fascinating read:

“I am a third-generation Angeleno. My grandpa grew up in South-Central, and my grandma grew up in Boyle Heights. When they were young, South-Central was a Jewish ghetto, and Western was the western edge of L.A. They had a soda pop wagon, but I think they made most of their money selling liquor during Prohibition. My grandpa started working when he was 12. He was a hustler. I get a lot of my work ethic from him. He used to take the Red Car, and he remembers when it got dismantled. It’s fascinating to me: How different would L.A. be if public transportation had been allowed to flourish? We’d probably be a more classically designed city, spend less time in cars, and all be happier. I love old Los Angeles. If you watch the brilliant Charlie Chaplin movie City Lights, you don’t think of it as L.A. because it looks so urbane and gorgeous and art deco, but it is. It’s downtown L.A. That’s sort of the neighborhood where we made a lot of (500) Days of Summer. We now have a plaque at that park near Angels Flight.

I grew up in Sherman Oaks, and I went to Van Nuys High. The Valley is a hybrid of two worlds. On the one hand, it’s a lot like every suburb everywhere in the country. But I also got the benefit of a huge metropolis with all that culture: music, food, movies, people. In New York the suburbs are distinct from the city, whereas L.A. is one big sprawling mess, so there’s not as big a separation between the Valley and more cool urban pockets.

I live in Silver Lake now. Looper’s director, Rian Johnson, and I are neighbors. We hang out at each other’s house or we go out to eat, although Rian can cook pretty well. Looper is the first time anyone has written a part for me. When Rian handed me a draft of the script, we were at Du-par’s eating steak and eggs. I waited until I got home to read it. When I did, I thought, “This is brilliant.”

I basically like to watch movies and eat. Of all the cities I’ve been to, Los Angeles has some of the best cinemas. You’ve got the New Beverly, the Nuart, and the Egyptian. It’s funny to have such a dignified cinematheque amid all the Hollywood mishegoss. Growing up, my cinema was Laemmle’s Sunset 5. When I was 16 and got my license, I would drive over Laurel Canyon to see anything that was playing there: Sling Blade, Big Night, Trees Lounge, Daytrippers. I sawSwingers there—twice. I went with my buddy from high school. We were so stoked about the movie, we went back in and saw it again immediately afterward. Spending time in the world of twentysomething guys who are on the prowl for chicks—that’s what you dream of doing when you’re 16. Plus it’s a great movie.

I lived in New York for nine years, and I decided to move back to L.A. because I like having a space where I can just freak out if I want to. I have a house where I can yell at the top of my lungs. In New York, if you start singing at the top of your lungs, no matter where you are on the island of Manhattan, someone’s going to hear you. Another virtue of Los Angeles is getting to sing in the car. I miss that when I’m out of town. Even though the traffic’s a bitch, it’s nice to have such a private environment to listen to music.

Los Angeles is a hard city to show to people because I think what’s charming about it are the people. It’s not like New York or Paris, where I’ll take you to this great neighborhood and we’ll walk around and it’s gorgeous. L.A. doesn’t really have that. When friends are in town, what I’m excited to do is introduce them to other friends of mine, and that usually happens at someone’s house. When you’re in New York City, you’re in New York City, and it defines a lot of your experience. But when you’re in L.A., you can make your own experience. There’s so much more space, you have the room to make your own world.

A video interview with @firstshowing

http://www.firstshowing.net/2012/video-interview-rian-johnson-in-depth-on-looper-with-spoilers/?uid=1084daf4b49ba475f20242c0e43ea3b6842a9a3a

LA Times portraits

Looper --> Ten plot points discussed with Germain Lussier from @slashfilm

http://www.slashfilm.com/ten-mysteries-in-looper-explained-by-director-rian-johnson/

A spoilery @5by5 audio interview with @moiseschiu

http://5by5.tv/afterdark/241

LA Magazine;

I am a third-generation Angeleno. My grandpa grew up in South-Central, and my grandma grew up in Boyle Heights. When they were young, South-Central was a Jewish ghetto, and Western was the western edge of L.A. They had a soda pop wagon, but I think they made most of their money selling liquor during Prohibition. My grandpa started working when he was 12. He was a hustler. I get a lot of my work ethic from him. He used to take the Red Car, and he remembers when it got dismantled. It’s fascinating to me: How different would L.A. be if public transportation had been allowed to flourish? We’d probably be a more classically designed city, spend less time in cars, and all be happier. I love old Los Angeles. If you watch the brilliant Charlie Chaplin movie City Lights, you don’t think of it as L.A. because it looks so urbane and gorgeous and art deco, but it is. It’s downtown L.A. That’s sort of the neighborhood where we made a lot of (500) Days of Summer. We now have a plaque at that park near Angels Flight.

I grew up in Sherman Oaks, and I went to Van Nuys High. The Valley is a hybrid of two worlds. On the one hand, it’s a lot like every suburb everywhere in the country. But I also got the benefit of a huge metropolis with all that culture: music, food, movies, people. In New York the suburbs are distinct from the city, whereas L.A. is one big sprawling mess, so there’s not as big a separation between the Valley and more cool urban pockets.

I live in Silver Lake now. Looper’s director, Rian Johnson, and I are neighbors. We hang out at each other’s house or we go out to eat, although Rian can cook pretty well. Looper is the first time anyone has written a part for me. When Rian handed me a draft of the script, we were at Du-par’s eating steak and eggs. I waited until I got home to read it. When I did, I thought, “This is brilliant.”

I basically like to watch movies and eat. Of all the cities I’ve been to, Los Angeles has some of the best cinemas. You’ve got the New Beverly, the Nuart, and the Egyptian. It’s funny to have such a dignified cinematheque amid all the Hollywood mishegoss. Growing up, my cinema was Laemmle’s Sunset 5. When I was 16 and got my license, I would drive over Laurel Canyon to see anything that was playing there: Sling Blade, Big Night, Trees Lounge, Daytrippers. I saw Swingers there—twice. I went with my buddy from high school. We were so stoked about the movie, we went back in and saw it again immediately afterward. Spending time in the world of twentysomething guys who are on the prowl for chicks—that’s what you dream of doing when you’re 16. Plus it’s a great movie.

I lived in New York for nine years, and I decided to move back to L.A. because I like having a space where I can just freak out if I want to. I have a house where I can yell at the top of my lungs. In New York, if you start singing at the top of your lungs, no matter where you are on the island of Manhattan, someone’s going to hear you. Another virtue of Los Angeles is getting to sing in the car. I miss that when I’m out of town. Even though the traffic’s a bitch, it’s nice to have such a private environment to listen to music.

Los Angeles is a hard city to show to people because I think what’s charming about it are the people. It’s not like New York or Paris, where I’ll take you to this great neighborhood and we’ll walk around and it’s gorgeous. L.A. doesn’t really have that. When friends are in town, what I’m excited to do is introduce them to other friends of mine, and that usually happens at someone’s house. When you’re in New York City, you’re in New York City, and it defines a lot of your experience. But when you’re in L.A., you can make your own experience. There’s so much more space, you have the room to make your own world.

HitRECord tour dates

Nerdist podcast

http://www.nerdist.com/2012/10/nerdist-podcast-joseph-gordon-levitt/

WIJN, saw these and immediately thought of you! Had to post.

WIJN, saw these and immediately thought of you! Had to post.

I think of you whenever I see Joseph in general, which is best of all no?! :)

but I found this to be pretty funny!

I think of you whenever I see Joseph in general, which is best of all no?! :)

but I found this to be pretty funny!

Gordon-Levitt stars as a looper on the hunt to kill himself, only 30 years older and played by—you guessed it!—Willis.

"Joe was such a saint," Johnson tells me. "He was in a chair for three hours every morning. That meant even for early mornings he was there three hours before anyone else."

To make matters worse, Gordon-Levitt wasn't allowed to eat much.

Take a look at Shia LaBeouf's Lawless gangster style & more of Hollywood's Prohibition fashions

"He only could drink these protein shakes during the day because oil from food would mess up his makeup," Johnson said, adding with a laugh, "He was tired, hungry and uncomfortable during the entire shoot. But he was a real trooper. I was very impressed."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, LA's Local Boy, Talks Favorite Theaters, Freaking Out And Singing In The Car

I am a third-generation Angeleno. My grandpa grew up in South-Central, and my grandma grew up in Boyle Heights. When they were young, South-Central was a Jewish ghetto, and Western was the western edge of L.A. They had a soda pop wagon, but I think they made most of their money selling liquor during Prohibition. My grandpa started working when he was 12. He was a hustler. I get a lot of my work ethic from him. He used to take the Red Car, and he remembers when it got dismantled. It’s fascinating to me: How different would L.A. be if public transportation had been allowed to flourish? We’d probably be a more classically designed city, spend less time in cars, and all be happier. I love old Los Angeles. If you watch the brilliant Charlie Chaplin movie City Lights, you don’t think of it as L.A. because it looks so urbane and gorgeous and art deco, but it is. It’s downtown L.A. That’s sort of the neighborhood where we made a lot of (500) Days of Summer. We now have a plaque at that park near Angels Flight.

I grew up in Sherman Oaks, and I went to Van Nuys High. The Valley is a hybrid of two worlds. On the one hand, it’s a lot like every suburb everywhere in the country. But I also got the benefit of a huge metropolis with all that culture: music, food, movies, people. In New York the suburbs are distinct from the city, whereas L.A. is one big sprawling mess, so there’s not as big a separation between the Valley and more cool urban pockets.

I live in Silver Lake now. Looper’s director, Rian Johnson, and I are neighbors. We hang out at each other’s house or we go out to eat, although Rian can cook pretty well. Looper is the first time anyone has written a part for me. When Rian handed me a draft of the script, we were at Du-par’s eating steak and eggs. I waited until I got home to read it. When I did, I thought, “This is brilliant.”

I basically like to watch movies and eat. Of all the cities I’ve been to, Los Angeles has some of the best cinemas. You’ve got the New Beverly, the Nuart, and the Egyptian. It’s funny to have such a dignified cinematheque amid all the Hollywood mishegoss. Growing up, my cinema was Laemmle’s Sunset 5. When I was 16 and got my license, I would drive over Laurel Canyon to see anything that was playing there: Sling Blade, Big Night, Trees Lounge, Daytrippers. I saw Swingers there—twice. I went with my buddy from high school. We were so stoked about the movie, we went back in and saw it again immediately afterward. Spending time in the world of twentysomething guys who are on the prowl for chicks—that’s what you dream of doing when you’re 16. Plus it’s a great movie.

I lived in New York for nine years, and I decided to move back to L.A. because I like having a space where I can just freak out if I want to. I have a house where I can yell at the top of my lungs. In New York, if you start singing at the top of your lungs, no matter where you are on the island of Manhattan, someone’s going to hear you. Another virtue of Los Angeles is getting to sing in the car. I miss that when I’m out of town. Even though the traffic’s a bitch, it’s nice to have such a private environment to listen to music.

Los Angeles is a hard city to show to people because I think what’s charming about it are the people. It’s not like New York or Paris, where I’ll take you to this great neighborhood and we’ll walk around and it’s gorgeous. L.A. doesn’t really have that. When friends are in town, what I’m excited to do is introduce them to other friends of mine, and that usually happens at someone’s house. When you’re in New York City, you’re in New York City, and it defines a lot of your experience. But when you’re in L.A., you can make your own experi