Did they make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like Bruce Willis in Looper?

Did they make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like Bruce Willis in Looper?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in Sony’s sci-fi thriller Looper, but his face is almost unrecognizable. Thanks to three hours in the makeup chair each morning, the actor transformed into a younger version of Bruce Willis for the role – in which the duo plays the same character at different ages.

Why is Gordon-Levitt CGI in Looper?

Although Rian Johnson briefly considered digital effects to make Joseph Gordon-Levitt look like Bruce Willis, the decision to go practical was swiftly made. This involved attaching prosthetic pieces made by make up guru Kazu Tsuji to Gordon-Levitt’s face in a 3-hour daily process.

Who is Rainmaker in Looper?

Cid (also known by his nickname “The Rainmaker”) is the tritagonist and overarching antagonist of the 2012 film Looper. Cid becomes a mob boss in the future with a prosthetic jaw and telekinetic abilities, or loosely referred to throughout the film as a “TK” or telekinetically-able person.

How did they make Joseph look like Bruce?

Fake nose, fake lips: Joseph was physically transformed to look like Bruce Willis. Each morning before the cameras started rolling, Joseph would be in the make-up chair for hours as experts applied prosthetics to his nose and lips to make him look a little more like Willis.

Was Joe actually CID in Looper?

The film surmises Old Joe killing Sarah eventually made Cid become the Rainmaker. But Old Joe can’t become Old Joe without first being killed and letting Young Joe grow up to meet his wife. In that timeline though, Cid would grow up normal because Sarah wasn’t killed by Joe.

Is Joe the kid in Looper?

Young Joe is a Looper. He’s had a messed up past, no real parents, and had his lessons on life given to him by a man from the future who gave him a gun and taught him to kill. Needless to say, Joe has issues.

Did they use makeup in Looper?

“After I took life casts of Joe and Bruce, I started to sculpt and design the makeup, and what I made was a nose piece, an upper lip and lower lip, a vacuum foam plastic piece to pull back Joe’s ears, a small hairpiece on the eyebrows to change Joe’s eyebrows and contact lenses to change Joe’s eye color.

Is CID Joe in the Looper?

At the end of Looper, Young Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) realizes that Cid (Pierce Gagnon) only becomes the evil known as The Rainmaker after Old Joe (Bruce Willis) kills Cid’s mother, Sara (Emily Blunt).