It's a very precise application of these things," Kelman explained, adding that it requires a committed and tolerant actor who has to want to wear the makeup or it doesn't work. You have to give this what it takes.
It's kind of like baking: You can't take the bread out before it's done, and if you do, it's half-baked. You can't really sleep, because I have to ask him to turn his chin or his head. It's a tiring process, because you're sitting there for three hours expending energy, you're not unconscious. He was totally into the process, and because he was so into it is why it worked so well.
Joe was very respectful of the makeup, but at the same time, he didn't cease being a comfortable human being and resorting to Jamba Juice liquid diets or something. And Bruce was great to work with and he really enjoyed it. 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.
The make-up artist is Kazuhiro Tsuji, and he is a magician. If you ask any make-up artist in the business about Kazu they will know who he is. He's a brilliant, brilliant guy. But really, more helpful than anything else was getting to know him and hanging out with him. Joseph and Bruce, sans prosthetics.
Image: Getty. Looper also marks the third creative outing between Joseph and director Rian Johnson , after Joseph starred in Rian's thriller Brick and made a cameo in the comedy The Brothers Bloom. I studied him, and watched his movies, and ripped the audio off of his movies, so I could listen to them on repeat. He even recorded some of my voice-over monologues [from Looper ] and sent me that recording, so I could hear what it would sound like in his voice.
And then just getting to know him and spending time with him and letting it seep in. It's a really, really fascinating way to become a character. That's always my favorite thing, is to transform, become somebody else. If I see a moment that reminds me of myself I always feel like I messed that up. The transformation process was "pretty one-sided," added Rian Johnson. There wasn't a lot that went the other day.
Joe could start getting to work pretty early, before he even met Bruce. He didn't look at Bruce when he was Joe's age, he looked at him today. He watched Sin City quite a bit. He watched his recent films.
That seems like a slight distinction, but I think that was really critical. Because he was basing his performance on Bruce today, instead of imitating Bruce as a young man. He was creating a new a new character, whom you could buy as the Bruce that's on the screen, instead of doing an imitation of what Bruce was actually like when he was younger. Also, Johnson said that working with Bruce Willis was exactly like your dream of what working with Bruce Willis would be like.
He was cool, but totally focused and committed to working on the part. You've probably heard that Looper is a U. A similar deal was struck for Iron Man 3 , though it's run into trouble. And in fact, Looper seems to hint that in the future where time travel has been invented, China is an ascendant superpower.
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