Joseph Gordon Leavitt On Why He’s A Feminist


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Don Jon is an homage to my mom … And she really loves the movie. She was one of the first ones to read the script and it’s been great getting to talk with her about it.””[HuffPo]

There are many reasons to admire Joseph Gordon Leavitt, not least among them the (somewhat) surprising revelation on ‘Ellen’ that he is a proud and fierce feminist. Per his own explanation:

“I do call myself a feminist. Absolutely! It’s worth paying attention to the roles that are sort of dictated to us and that we don’t have to fit into those roles. We can be anybody we wanna be.”

He attributes his stance to his pioneering feminist mother, to whom his film Don Jon is an homage. Check out the full interview and weigh in on the actor’s hard-hitting message.

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