--- description: Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives one of the most gloriously physical performances of the year in Robert Zemeckis' The Walk. title: Joseph Gordon-Levitt: The Walk Interview, Favorite Film image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf73f717c2846000b/6988746be20a87734ca8e8a9/joseph-gordon-levitt.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Joseph Gordon-Levitt on His Surprising Favorite Film of the Year by [Salima Koroma](/author/salima-koroma/), [Adam Perez](/author/adam-perez/) and [Stephanie Zacharek](/author/stephanie-zacharek/) Dec 11, 2015 12:00 PM CUT  Erik Madigan Heck for TIME Erik Madigan Heck for TIMEJoseph Gordon-Levitt, November 2015. by [Salima Koroma](/author/salima-koroma/), [Adam Perez](/author/adam-perez/) and [Stephanie Zacharek](/author/stephanie-zacharek/) Dec 11, 2015 12:00 PM CUT Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives one of the most gloriously physical performances of the year in Robert Zemeckis’ _The Walk,_ which tells the story of high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s extraordinary stroll between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in 1974\. Gordon-Levitt trained with Petit for eight days to learn the basics of wirewalking, so it’s no surprise that the actor—who is, among other things, a gifted song-and-dance man—makes every step look effortless. Yet his favorite film of the year was one that featured no physical performances at all: _Inside Out_. “_Inside Out_ took such a nuanced and complicated part of being a human being and made it visual, and made it visceral, and made it emotional,” Gordon-Levitt says. Yet if he admires that film’s ambition, he brings the same go-for-broke spirit to _The Walk_. As Gordon-Levitt told TIME during our Best of Culture photo shoot, “Petit had this crazy idea, and even though every voice in his head must have said, ‘That’s impossible…you should give up now,’ he went ahead and did it anyway.”  Erik Madigan Heck for TIME Joseph Gordon-Levitt, November 2015. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4141705/joseph-gordon-levitt-favorite-film-of-2015-the-walk/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4141705/joseph-gordon-levitt-favorite-film-of-2015-the-walk/"},"headline":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt on His Surprising Favorite Film of the Year","datePublished":"2015-12-11T12:00:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:50:34.038Z","description":"The actor, who earned raves for his performance in Robert Zemeckis' The Walk, talks about the movie that inspired him the most in 2015","url":"https://time.com/4141705/joseph-gordon-levitt-favorite-film-of-2015-the-walk/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf73f717c2846000b/6988746be20a87734ca8e8a9/joseph-gordon-levitt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Salima Koroma","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/salima-koroma/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam Perez","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/adam-perez/"},{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Zacharek","jobTitle":"Film Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf73f717c2846000b/6988746be20a87734ca8e8a9/joseph-gordon-levitt.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"joseph-gordon-levitt","caption":"Erik Madigan Heck for TIME","creditText":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt, November 2015.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4141705/joseph-gordon-levitt-favorite-film-of-2015-the-walk/","name":"Joseph Gordon-Levitt on His Surprising Favorite Film of the Year"}}]}] ```