Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the titular character in Hesher, playing an eccentric drifter who hangs out with a family fraught with grief.  Rainn Wilson is Paul, a man who is too caught up in his own problems to kick Hesher out of his house, and newcomer Devon Brochu is Paul’s 13-year-old son, a youth who is being terrorized by the school bully.  Gordon-Levitt, last seen in Inception, talked about working with Natalie Portman, who produces and stars in the picture (she plays a supermarket cashier who befriends the teenager).

“It was really exciting to be working with Natalie,” said Gordon-Levitt.  “I’ve admired her since she was young.  In The Professional she inspired me because I was a young actor and then she’s done great movies since.  Closer and Black Swan was one of my favorite movies last year.  It’s easy to put a beautiful actress like that in a pigeonhole and I think a lot of people do but I think she shatters that box every time because she approaches her work with such dignity and such intelligence and it’s not about being a pretty young girl.  It’s about being an actor and an artist.  The fact that she was producing this movie definitely made it all the more interesting to me.”

Click on the media bar and listen to Gordon-Levitt discuss why Hesher was much more than a “homeless dirty bum” (the actor mentions director Spencer Susser in the clips).

Hesher opens in limited release Friday.

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posted by Greg Srisavasdi