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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Age: 43
Born: 1981
Born: February 17
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
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