Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks adorably quirky and makes quite a preppy spalsh as the latest cover boy for BlackBook magazines latest issue.
On fame and Hollywood... “When I go to the grocery store, I’ll look at the covers of tabloid magazines - they fascinate me - but I don’t bring that sh– into my house because I think it’s evil and poisonous. It’s easy to dismiss it as harmless entertainment, but I don’t think it is. We’re very influenced by the stories we choose to fill our days with.”
The idea for an online community that razes the hierarchy between artists from Hollywood and, say, Hoboken came to the Golden Globe nominee when he started using Final Cut editing software to make his own short movies, something he began dabbling in shortly after his sixth and final season on 3rd Rock... “I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to be an actor anymore because the only jobs anybody wanted to give me were more TV parts,” he says. “It’s not that I was averse to TV; it’s just that the work didn’t inspire me. Saying ‘hit record’ was, for me, an imperative sentence. I no longer wanted anyone to tell me how I was allowed to express myself.” He wears the mantra on his sleeve—and, today, on his T-shirt, which is emblazoned with a bright red “O,” the company’s logo.
On seeing himself on film... “When I was younger, I couldn’t watch anything I was in. Then I started making and editing my own little videos for fun, and that’s when I started watching myself, although seeing myself act in a Hollywood-scale production is different from watching something I shot on my video camera.”
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