Looper Stuff

It’s better than anything I’ve ever done. … [director] Rian [Johnson] did an amazing thing. He conceived an original story. He wrote it, sold it, stuck with it, directed it, and finished it. That’s just tough to do in this town. Someone always weasels into the process. That didn’t happen here. And if he never did anything else except that Herculean effort, he’d have made it in the business. Amazing…

It’s more than an original story. It’s a story people are going to talk about, and see twice. And argue about. I was arguing with myself about the story when I read it the first time. That’s all Rian Johnson, beginning to end. Great, great director.

Bruce Willis on Looper via Screen Crush

“It’s an amazing thriller, so fast-paced, and always three steps ahead of you,” she enthuses. “I begged to sit down with [writer/director Rian Johnson] and basically ambushed him, saying ‘you’ve got to let me do it’.”

- Emily Blunt on Looper via Melbourne Times Weekly

Insider: In addition to those films, you also have a role in Looper which looks to be, pardon my french, a massive mindf*ck.
Garret: [laughs] I hope it is a mindf*ck – I loved this experience a lot. I’m incredibly jealous of Joseph Gordon-Levitt – he’s just so cool and together. I wish I was as cool and together at that age. Plus, he looks incredible in the makeup — but he had to drink shakes all the time because he couldn’t eat with the makeup on. But he’s so good and Emily Blunt is amazing. I mention them because those are the two I worked with.

Insider: Who do you play in the movie?
Garret: I play Jesse, who is one of the “Gatmen” – they’re the dudes in the long black coats that are the enforcers for the bad guys. I’m hunting Joseph’s character when he messes up and breaks the rules, which allows me to the baddest of the “Gatmen.” I had the real leather coat, just so you know – which was not the best in New Orleans heat [laughs], What I like about the characters in this film is that there’s no white hats. I’m just a guy with a family trying to do his job. I don’t want to get hurt, I just want to find him and go home.

Garret Dillahunt on Looper, via TheInsider.com

“From that little trailer, you can hardly get it. They wanted to make a big, banging action movie trailer, which is accurate because it is a big, banging action movie. But when you actually see the movie and you really get a sense of what those prosthetics look like, I’m really excited for people to see this character because it’s just nothing like me. That’s my favorite thing as an actor, to create a character that’s other than myself.”

Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Looper

via MTV

Looper is, to be honest, some of the best work I’ve ever done as an actor. I really transformed myself. Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed Brick is - I think - one of the greatest filmmakers going.

[Johnson] actually has a lot in common with Chris Nolan and Steven Spielberg. He’s a brilliant, brilliant guy. I cannot wait for people to see that movie.

When you actually see the movie and you really get a sense of what those prosthetics look like, I’m really excited for people to see this character because it’s just nothing like me.

That’s my favorite thing as an actor, to create a character that’s other than myself.

via DigitalSpy