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"FacebookPinterest\n\nIn case you didn\u2019t realize it, women love a man in a tie\u2014whether it\u2019s with a sport coat, a suit, a leather jacket, or a cardigan. Here, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt heads to Paris and gets tangled up with the immortal Claudia Schiffer.\n\nThe Kid Stayed in the Picture\n\n Former child star Joseph Gordon-Levitt grows up in \u2018Stop-Loss\u2019\n\nAs a kid growing up in Los Angeles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt felt the weight of his parents\u2019 politics early on. \u201CI wasn\u2019t allowed to play with G.I. Joes,\u201D he says. \u201CMy parents drew the line at toys with guns.\u201D Which is ironic, considering the 27-year-old actor is now filming (yup) the bigscreen adaptation of G.I. Joe. Is Gordon-Levitt\u2019s stint in Hollywood ammo porn a slap in the face to Mom\u2014a woman who, it should be said, once ran for Congress on the leftwing Peace and Freedom ticket? Nah. \u201CThe G.I. Joe costumes and the effects are just so fucking cool,\u201D he says. \u201CAnd it looked like fun.\u201D\n\nFun isn\u2019t a word we\u2019d use to describe Gordon-Levitt\u2019s most recent projects, so we can understand the appeal. Since dropping out of Columbia University, the onetime child actor has embraced a string of wildly varied indie roles, including a turn as a gay hustler in Gregg Araki\u2019s Mysterious Skin and (equally disturbing) as Mo\u2019Nique\u2019s plaything in Shadowbor. \u201CI\u2019m losing parts left and right to the Rock,\u201D he jokes of his place in L.A., adding, \u201CI\u2019m just trying to do work that I believe in.\u201D Which, by the way, includes this shoot with the permahot Claudia Schiffer. \u201CI was joking with a buddy of mine,\u201D Gordon-Levitt says. \u201CAll my good luck is used up. I better just stay inside for the rest of the year, because I\u2019m gonna get hit by a bus.\u201D\n\nThe actor\u2019s do-right onscreen mission includes this month\u2019s Stop-Loss, Kimberly Peirce\u2019s follow-up to Boys Don\u2019t Cry; it\u2019s the story of an AWOL soldier (Ryan Phillippe) slapped with an unwanted return ticket to Iraq. Joe Gordon (that\u2019s what his friends call him), in a standout performance of complex rage, plays a soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, a condition he self-medicates by using his household appliances for target practice. The film may be a tough sell, what with Iraq-themed movies falling at the box office. But he\u2019s quick to point out that unlike some of those films, Stop-Loss isn\u2019t a polemic: \u201CThe movie isn\u2019t about geopolitics or oil. It\u2019s about staying alive and keeping your friends alive\u2014it\u2019s basic, and it\u2019s in a man\u2019s nature.\u201D Still, what would Mom make of all this gunplay? \u201CThe more guns you\u2019re around, the more likely you\u2019re gonna get shot,\u201D he says, pausing to smile: \u201CBut at the same time, they\u2019re fun as hell to shoot.\u201D"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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