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Connecting Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Hartnett
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In 2013, Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed, and starred in his screenwriting and directorial debut, ''Don Jon''. The film also stars Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Tony Danza and it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
In ''Premium Rush'', he played the starring role of a fixie-riding, brash bicycle messenger; he portrayed the younger version of Bruce Willis' character, in a shared role for the time-travel thriller '' Looper''; and the supporting role of Robert Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic ''Lincoln''.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and screenwriter
His 1997 feature, ''Amistad'', his first released under DreamWorks, was based on the true story of the events in 1839 aboard the slave ship '' La Amistad''. Producer Debbie Allen, who had read the book ''Amistad I'' in 1978, thought Spielberg would be perfect to direct.{{Sfn|Jackson|2007|p=68}} Spielberg was hesitant taking on the project, afraid that it would be compared to ''Schindler's List'', but he said, "I've never planned my career [...] In the end I do what I think I gotta do. "{{Sfn|Jackson|2007|p=68}} Starring Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou and Matthew McConaughey, the director used Allen's ten years worth of research to reenact the difficult historical scenes.{{Sfn|Jackson|2007|p=67}}{{Sfn|Freer|2001|p=252}} The film struggled to find an audience, and underperformed at the box office;{{Sfn|Jackson|2007|p=69}} Spielberg admitted that "[''Amistad''] became too much of a history lesson. "{{Sfn|Freer|2001|p=258}}
Morgan Freeman
Starring a principle cast of Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci, and Ben Kingsley, the film garnered mixed reception.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Gordon-Levitt's first film as director, the 24-minute-long ''Sparks'' was an adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard starring Carla Gugino and Eric Stoltz. '' Sparks'' was selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to be shown as part of a new program for short films.
Uma Thurman
In 2011, Thurman was one of several celebrities associated with the USAID and Ad Council's FWD campaign, an awareness initiative tied to that year's East Africa drought. She joined Geena Davis, Chanel Iman and Josh Hartnett in TV and internet ads to "forward the facts" about the crisis.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
He became an avid Francophile and a French speaker. He also dated actress Julia Stiles and the two lived in John Jay Hall.
Julia Stiles
American actress
MTV profiled her in its ''Diary'' series in 2003, and she was '' Punk'd'' by Ashton Kutcher at a Washington, D.C., museum in the spring of 2004.
Ashton Kutcher
American actor, model, and entrepreneur
Kutcher was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast for the role of Danny Walker in '' Pearl Harbor'' (2001) (replaced by Josh Hartnett) , he starred in several comedy films, including ''Dude, Where's My Car?'' (2000), ''Just Married'' (2003), and ''Guess Who'' (2005).
