Joseph Gordon-Levitt has spoken to Newsweek concerning the amusing debate recap video he carried out for The New York Times after Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump went face to face on September 10.
The Hollywood star takes heart stage in Amazon's newest movie Killer Heat, based mostly on Jo Nesbø's quick story The Jealousy Man—a recent thriller in basic noir fashion. Set towards the sun-drenched backdrop of Crete, the movie follows non-public investigator Nick Bali (Gordon-Levitt), an American expatriate drawn into an online of intrigue surrounding the suspicious demise of younger delivery magnate Leo Vardakis (Richard Madden).
The official police report claims Leo's demise was unintentional, however his sister-in-law (Shailene Woodley) stays unconvinced. As Nick delves deeper, he finds darkness at each flip: the place the wealthy and highly effective Vardakis household guidelines like gods, jealousies run deep, and anybody could possibly be a suspect.
Throughout the movie, there are references to Icarus, who died after flying too near the solar with waxen wings. References to Greek mythology are used to critique the ruling lessons of in the present day, reflecting broader societal themes. Additionally, the theme of freedom within the movie echoes the Democratic Party's platform—Beyonce has given Harris the rights to make use of her music “Freedom” as a part of her marketing campaign—and displays the present U.S. political panorama.
Gordon-Levitt is an actor recognized for his political involvement and in September, The New York Times enlisted the musical abilities of the musical quartet the Gregory Brothers and the 10 Things I Hate About You actor to supply a recap of the talk—which concerned numerous singing and social commentary.
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“I'm good old friends with the Gregory brothers, the masterminds behind that video. We've done those debate videos—we did one in 2012, we did one in '20—I don't remember if we did one in 2016. We did one in 2020 and they're so brilliant,” Gordon-Levitt informed Newsweek.
“All of their videos are so brilliant and I was delighted that they asked me to do it. And by the way, that debate made it pretty easy to turn into a song because there's a lot of songifiable moments in that debate.”
Gordon-Levitt is in fact referring to Trump's false declare that Haitian migrants are stealing and consuming pets in Springfield, Ohio.
“I mean, as soon as you hear a presidential candidate saying ‘They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats,” it is arduous to not image like, ‘They're consuming the canines, they're consuming the cats.' It simply writes itself,” Gordon-Levitt added.
He demonstrated his singing talent by performing an impromptu rendition of his debate recap by singing the end of his sentence, giving Newsweek a unique glimpse into his versatility.
Gordon-Levitt mentioned he engages in politics “as much as I can” and inspired individuals to exit and vote come the election in 2024.
“I'm very grateful to live in a country that's a democracy where we get to vote and pick our leaders and I would just encourage anybody out there—here in the U .S., we're having our elections and I would just encourage everybody to go out and actually vote,” he mentioned.
“Look, there's a lot of people in the world, billions of people who don't get to pick their leaders, who don't live in a democracy and ours is far from perfect. Our government is dysfunctional and messed up in so many ways and yet, if you compare it to what real dictatorship looks like, it's a privilege to get to participate and vote. And I'm grateful for that privilege and I look forward to voting come November.”
During the dialog the actor additionally talked about synthetic intelligence. On September 18, he took to his Instagram account to ask Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, to signal SB1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act.
“AI can be awesome, but it needs rules and regulations. Please sign SB1047,” Gordon-Levitt captioned the video.
Gordon-Levitt informed Newsweek that journalists and actors have “every right to be concerned” about what the development of AI will appear to be for his or her professions however he believes that AI will in all probability “go way beyond that.”
“I think anybody that does work on a computer at all is likely going to have their job threatened by this technology,” he mentioned.
“And there are fair ways to go about it. We've talked to plenty of experts, technologists, entrepreneurs, politicians, lawyers who talk about, ‘Hey, these models, they don't work unless they're fed with huge reams of data.' But who produced that data? Humans did. Now, the big tech companies that build these products, they don't want to pay attention to all the humans who produced the data they're using.
“They would reasonably say like, ‘Oh no, we have simply invented synthetic intelligence. It's its personal factor.' Because what they actually must do is get consent from all these people whose knowledge is feeding into their fashions and they need to in all probability even pay all these people whose knowledge goes into their fashions.
“Of course, their business wouldn't be as profitable that way. So these are questions that are going to impact journalists and actors maybe earlier, but doctors, accountants, lawyers, salespeople, advertising, logistics, whoever you want to really bring up anybody whose work is interacting with data and computers is gonna be dealing with these same issues.”
The 500 Days of Summer actor emphasised that it is “really important” to remain forward of huge companies, technologists, entrepreneurs, and others who're leveraging AI.
He added: “I know it's not like the most salacious, entertaining stuff to talk about. I know this interview just got dense and maybe not pretty, but if we want to not end up in a new feudal society where the tech overlords just have all the money and everyone else is just serfs we need to start talking about this stuff now.”
Killer Heat will probably be launched on September 26, 2024, on Prime Video.
