This fall you'll see Joseph Gordon-Levitt as you've never seen him before: As Bruce Willis. In the sci-fi time-travel action pic Looper, from Brick director Rian Johnson, Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, an assassin who ties up loose ends for the mob by killing targets as they're sent back in time from the future -- until one day his own future self (played by Willis) comes through for extermination. Previewing a teaser for the September release at WonderCon, Johnson and Gordon-Levitt discussed the trickiness of transforming Gordon-Levitt into a young Willis, pulled off with the aid of prosthetics, and why it's particularly difficult to talk about their time travel thriller.
With Willis playing the older version of Gordon-Levitt, the younger actor had to transform in two ways to better resemble his onscreen future self. The first trick: Three hours of prosthetics each day, which lent Gordon-Levitt more of a physical likeness.
"We basically had to figure out a way to sell Joe as a young Bruce Willis," Johnson explained, giving much of the credit Gordon-Levitt's performance, which he described as "this incredible high wire act of acting, where Joe is doing Bruce but at the same time he?s creating a unique character who has the Bruce voice."
"It?s kind of amazing to watch. It?s his own character that he created but at the same time you see that character and you believe in the movie that could be a younger version of the Bruce you?re seeing onscreen."
Gordon-Levitt adopted Willis's mannerisms by studying how he delivered lines in previous films, and by observing the old-fashioned way: In the flesh. "I watched all of his movies and took the audio out of his movies and…
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