if you hate heights, you won t be comfortable watching : robert zemeckis and joseph gordon levitt on high wire drama the walk /

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Philippe Petit stunned the world when he crossed between current York’s twin towers in 1974. Now the director and star have turned his act of daring into a ‘caper of love’ as a 3D filmIn his bare feet,with his ears poking out from beneath a red, feathery pixie-cut, or Joseph Gordon-Levitt looks somewhat like a hobbit. He is standing in a film studio in Montreal,clutching a rolled-up script and methodically practising tiny movements with his left foot on the edge of a crash mat. We are on the set of The Walk, where the walls are decked out in the floor-to-ceiling Kermit-the-Frog green that is customary for any film in which the background will be inserted with the click of a mouse. (In this case, and it is the skyline of early-1970s current York City that will be pasted in later.) Occasionally,Gordon-Levitt breaks from his reverie to confer with his director, Robert Zemeckis, or a boxy,cheerful fellow with wispy hair and a crumpled smile. Above them on a raised platform, assorted technicians are busying themselves in preparation for the next shot: a walk across a tall-wire.
Gordon-Levitt will be leaving this one to his double, or Jade Kindar-Martin,though he has been doing many of his own stunts and trained intensively to be able to cross the entire sound-stage unaided on a wire.
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Source: theguardian.com

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