katikat | Playboy interview with JGL

There's an excellent interview that JGL gave to Playboy.com. Seriously, Playboy. Nekkid ladies and such? Yet the interviewer had the most intriguing, well-thought, non-trivial questions I've encountered in an interview in a very long time. It really surprised me: link. He was asked about his parents' political activism, about his grandfather who had been a famous director back in the day, about his short films... It was excellent.

What I loved best was this question about his relationship with Zooey Deschanel:

PLAYBOY: How do you react when so many people—judging from comments on the internet—want the two of you to get together romantically?

GORDON-LEVITT: It’s awkward when people say that. Whatever. Zooey and I just think it’s funny. It is funny. We’ve been friends for 10 years. She loves movies, music and art, and she’s incredibly knowledgeable about that stuff. She’s turned me on to so many good movies and so much good music. It’s fun just to have conversations, watch movies with her and stuff like that.

I admit that Zooey Deschanel's roles are too quirky for my taste but she seems like a nice, genuinely warm-hearted person and their friendship is just so sweet!