Joseph Gordon-Levitt walks the high wire for Robert Zemeckis’ new film, The Walk
Ever since he debuted as a child actor on the hit sitcom “3rd Rock from the Sun,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt has found a lot of interesting roles for himself, but in the next year, he’s going to be playing a couple real people.
First up, he’s starring in Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, playing French wirewalker Philippe Petit, who in 1974 came up with a master plan to walk across a wire strung between the newly-built towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.
ComingSoon.net talked with Gordon-Levitt at the New York junket for the movie, the day after the film’s world premiere at the 53rd New York Film Festival, which was a moving experience for anyone who was in town when the World Trade Center fell in 2001.
You can watch our interview with the actor below where we tried our best to find out anything we could about his adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s DC/Vertigo comic The Sandman.
The Walk will open in IMAX theaters on Wednesday, September 30, and then nationwide on Friday, October 9.
(As might be expected, Gordon-Levitt talks quite a bit about the real Philippe Petit in the interview below and as it happens, ComingSoon.net talked to the real man back in 2008 and you can read that interview here.)
