AceShowBiz.com spoke with Joseph Gordon-Levitt about the upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of COBRA motion picture, particularly about the recently revealed look for COBRA Commander. The actor had some interesting things to say:
“That toy is not my face. It’s a mask. I like that I get to keep my face,” he insisted, explaining. “It has less to do with me and more to do with this character that I helped create. That’s more thrilling to me. It’s this thing that was born out of a creative, collaborative process between me and a bunch of other people that all worked on creating this character.”
He also mentions that COBRA Commander’s “look” was a big reason why he wanted the role to begin with:
“The way the character looks, that’s what ultimately convinced me to do the part,” he noted. “I saw the designs and drawings of the way they interpreted my character for this movie – the costume, the whole getup – and I was like, ‘Oh, wow. I get to be that guy? Fantastic. Sign me up. Please. Thank you.”
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Man, redaing this interview just makes it THAT much harder not to hate this movie going in.
Why re-design the look of such an iconic character? I mean, why stop there anyway? They ruined about everything that makes GIJoe…GIJoe. How come Snake Eyes isn’t wearing a pink tu-tu? It would fit with the rest of the re-designs. Quality-wise I mean.
I really want to go into this movie with an open mind, with the thought that okay, it won’t be real GIJoe, but another version of it, and it may be cool.
But it seems they are going out of their way to make comments like this, basically saying that the actors only wanted to do these roles after they saw that it wasn’t going to be anything like the GIJoe of the past 25 years.
Of course looking at the list of actors…..(besides Dennis Quaid) says a lot in itself doesn’t it?