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"Joseph Gordon-Levitt has discussed playing a young version of Bruce Willis&amp;#039;s character in the new time-bending thriller Looper. The actor explained that he thoroughly researched Willis while preparing for Looper in order to accurately replicate the Die Hard star&amp;#039;s distinct speaking style.  &amp;quot;I studied Bruce Willis&amp;#039;s movies, and I would take the audio from some of his movies and put them on my iPod so that I could listen to him,&amp;quot; Gordon-Levitt said, according to Flicks and Bits. He further explained: &amp;quot;Bruce actually recorded himself doing some of my monologues and sent me the tapes so that I could listen to that, and that was all really useful.  &amp;quot;But I think the most important thing for me was just getting to know him, hanging out having dinner, talking about whatever, that was where I think I really learned what I wanted to do with the character.&amp;quot;  Willis previously claimed that he was very impressed with Gordon-Levitt&amp;#039;s performance in the sci-fi film. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s a great actor, I love his work and I just love what he did in this film, Looper,&amp;quot; Willis commented. &amp;quot;He picked up some of my cadence of speaking, which was odd, and yet, really cool at the same time.&amp;quot; Looper opens on Friday in the US and the UK. Watch a trailer below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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