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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( born Joseph Gordon-Levitt ; born 1981 ) is an American actor who works mainly in a low-budget, independent cinema . Often called in the media one of the most gifted actors of the young generation.
Early years
Joseph Gogdon-Levitt, the youngest of two sons, was born on February 17, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 4, he entered the group of musical theater and played the horror story in the production of a “wizard from the country of Oz”. Soon, an agent for actors drew attention to him, and Joseph starred in television advertising of peanut oil, chocolate flakes, cookies and shoes.
Career start (1988-2002)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt began his acting career at the age of 6, appearing in the late 80s in several television films and in 2 episodes of the series Family Takes. After the main role in the short -lived remake of the series “Dark Shadows” in 1991, he debuted a small role in the feature film “Beethoven” in 1992. Later in the same year he played the children's version of the Greg Sheffer character in “Where the River flows”. At the age of 12, Joseph played the main role of Gregory in the film “Change Parents”, based on the real story of a boy who won the right to divorce his parents in court. In 1994, he played a boy from the Hutterite community in the comedy “Holy Takes of Marriage” and appeared in the main role in the successful Disney film “Angels at the edge of the field”
In 1996, he began to star in the series “The Third Planet from the Sun” in the role of Tommy Solomon, this role brought him fame. In the late 90s, Joseph starred in several films, including the Jurisdiction (1996), in the role of the son of the heroine Demi Moore, in Halloween Halloween Horror: 20 years later, as a victim, as well as in the Shakespeare of the youth comedy “10 reasons for my hatred” in one of the main roles. He also acted as an invited star in the first season of the series “Show of the 70s” in the episode “Friend of Eric” in the role of “Blue” school comrade Erica Forman, and voiced the protagonist Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated film “Planet of Treasures” (2002).
In the 90s, they often wrote about him in magazines for adolescents, sometimes he was outraged. He said that at that time he did not enjoy the fact that he was recognized in public places, noting that he "hates fame." Joseph left the “Third Planet from the Sun” on time of the last season, asking to terminate the contract. For the next 2 years, he did not star and entered the University of Colombia (the only one where he submitted the documents). There he studied French poetry, history and literature. After studying at the university, he became an ardent and convinced francophile. He said that moving to New York from his hometown forced him to grow as a person. Joseph threw the university in 2004 to concentrate on an acting career again.
Career (2003-back)
Joseph said that after returning to the filming, he made a conscious decision to "act in good cinema." Since the beginning of the 2000s, he appeared in films that Boston Herald described as a series of “enthusiastically met by critics, but little known to the wide audience of independent films”, which “secured the status of an ascending star in the orbit of independent cinema”. This is the drama of 2001 “Manic”, which was filmed in an institution for the mentally ill, “mysterious leather” of 2004, where he played a gay prostitute, a victim of sexual violence in childhood. And the “brick” of 2005, a modern nuar film shot in high school (San Clemente High School), in a clover, he played the protagonist of Brandon Fry, a teenager who was forced to introduce into the underground gang of drug traders to investigate the murder. Brick received positive reviews, The minnesota daily wrote in her recall that Gordon-Levitt played his hero “beautifully”, “in conjunction with the style of the film”, “deprived of feelings, but not devoid of illusions”, “sexual in the most ambiguous way”, and another review describing his game as “amazing”.
The next work of Joseph was the “Deception”, where he played Chris Pratt, a cleaner involved in the robbery of the bank. The film was released on March 30, 2007. In a review of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Joseph gave a characteristic “an amazingly amazing and amazingly amazing protagon”, while the New York Magazine claimed that he was “the main actor of the“ pure leaf ”(“ Tabula rasa ”) ... The minimum” and that his hero “triggers” because he is not “triggering captures the space by the fact that the beret of his hero ”; San Francisco Chronicle indicates that he "is more worried than plays the hero’s inner life." Some critics suggest that the role in “Deception” will turn Joseph into an actor of mainstream cinema. His next films “Killer”, where he plays the killer with Diane Lane and Mickey Rurkom, and “War of forced”, telling about American soldiers who returned from the war in Iraq.
Joseph has an apartment in Nizhny East Side in New York City.
Joseph leads his own Hitrecord website, where he uploads various video tolls that he creates himself.
§ 1992 - And the river rolled the river / Ariver Runs Through It - Young Norman
§ 1994 - Road killers / The Road Killers - Rich
§ 1998 - Dear Jane / Sweetjane - Tony
§ 1998 - Halloween: 20 years later / Halloween H20: 20 Years Later - Jimmihawell
§ 1999 - 10 reasons for my hatred / 10THings I HATE ABOUT YOU - Cameron James
§ 2000 - collecting pieces / picking up the pieces - flask
§ 2000 - Lulu forever / Foreverlulu - Martin Ell.
§ 2001 - Maniac / Manic - Lyle
§ 2002 - Planetacorovisch / Treasure Planet - Jim Hawkins
§ 2003 - Last Nedni / Latter Days - matured Paul Ryder
§ 2004 - Mysterious leather / Mysteriusskin - Neil
§ 2005 - Brick / Brick - Brendan
§ 2005 - War of shadows / Shadowboxer - Doctoron
§ 2007 - Deception / Thelookout - Chris Pratt
§ 2007 - Killeler / Killshot - Richie NIX
8 § 2008 - War of Rubbound / Stop Loss - Tommy Bergeses
Director 2009
Plays well on the guitar
He entered the University of Columbia in 2000
Selected by one of the list “21 The Sexy Star up to 21 years” according to Teen People Magazine in 1999
I tried to the role of Aaron Davis in the Last Days (2003), but got the role of Paul Ryder
His mother’s grandfather - Michael Gordon made the films “Sirano de Bergerak (1950) and“ Intimate conversation ”(1959)
Gordon’s career was destroyed when his name was included in the “black list” during the fight against the “red threat” in the mid -twentieth century.
He visited, but did not graduate from the University of Colombia in New York, where he studied French. Colombia was the only university where he submitted documents.
His parents, Jane Gordon and Dannis Levitt, met in California, where both were activists of a public organization.
Among his favorite actors Gina Rowlands (1930) and Warren Outs (1928)
He played a horror story in a preschool production of "Wizard from Oz Country"
Among his favorite films “Dambo” (1941) and “Like Fake” (1974)
Joseph is friends with actress Michelle Trakhtenberg, with whom he starred in “mysterious skin” (2004)
He took the 6th place in the list of “30 to 30 years” actors according to Entertainment Weekly magazine (2008)
Joseph has an older brother Daniel (1974)
Constantly lives in New York
Quotes!
The whole concept of "celebrities" annoys me. I am not a celebrity, this is such a strange concept that society invented for us. Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.
I read a lot of scripts, and most of them are bad. The Brick was such a good script that it was just interesting to read it. It was like: “Oh, God, how pleasant it is to feel these words in your mouth.” They try to create a world with the help of cool decorations, costumes, and operator work. In the "brick" the world was born from words.
For me, sexual scenes in the film, by and large, are scenes without a reason that do not serve the story told, but are a kind of excuse: we got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's turn on the music and muffle the light.
The actors were not always celebrities. Hundreds of years ago, theaters were placed next to brothels. The actors were poor. Celebrities were kings and queens. Then the United States abolished the monarchy, and now show business and celebrities go hand in hand. I don't think it's sensibly. I do not want to make it important, but all these shows and magazines about celebrities - it all comes from us, from Hollywood, from our country. We created them. And I think that this is one of many other bad things that take place in the world. This encourages greed, encourages to be egoists and it supports such a staircase when you are considered better than others if you have more money. This does not apply to the work itself. Do not understand me wrong. I love cinema. But this myth of celebrities is not related to cinema.
In the center of the film, for me, two characters, who had one common terrifying, traumatic experience, but its impact on them was the opposite; And this shows how different people see things differently. Today, the president of my country does not understand this, he thinks that if you do not look at things with his eyes, then you are wrong and evil. But the world works differently. One event can occur, but everyone who sees it will see it a little differently or sees it in a completely different way, and our film is about that, and this is what the stupid dB-ml needs to understand. Or let him not understand this, go his own way and returns to his ranch and never bothers us again. (about "mysterious skin").
My father never exploded anything, but he might have friends who did this. He and his mother always preached that the pen had more power than the Molotov cocktail (about the participation of his parents in the youth public movement).
I do not blame people for the fact that there are so many bad films. I think that this is a spoiled, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that penetrated everywhere in the film business. The whole business of entertainment seems to be crumbling around us.
Success is not important to me, power or money is not important. If the script seems good to me, I'm in business. So simple.
My advantage is that I know the system. Great budgets do not make impressions of me. Maybe they made it when I was 13, but I work with 6.
One of the most difficult things when you play a soldier is the consciousness that I have never done and, perhaps, I will never do something as bold.
The “deception” was the most difficult thing that I still did. Partly because the “brick” and “mysterious leather” were removed for 4-5 weeks, and the shooting of “deception” took 9-10. So there was also an aspect of the marathon, along with the fact that Chris Pratt is much more complicated than two other characters. You see, it’s hard for him to just wake up in the morning. It is difficult for him to make an offer. Correctly dress, drive a car, all these things. He copes well, but it is simply much more difficult for him than for a normal person, so I had to try to do it difficult for myself. So it was a test
(about cruelty in “mysterious skin”) All this cruelty is here only to tell a story that comes from an honest and genuine source, and this is what is important.
I played the role of smart, funny, cute, even angry, but sexual - never
