Joseph Gordon-Levitt on new film Snowden - BBC Newsnight

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Channel: BBC Politics · 2016 · News & Politics

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What's it like to play Edward Snowden? Hollywood actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt tells our culture correspondent Stephen Smith how he got into character for his new film Snowden by director Oliver Stone.

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