We spoke w/ hitRECordJoe about SuperPumpedTheBattleforUber, how he got ready to play Travis Kalanick, having so much of PearlJam’s music in the series, and what he hopes audiences take from watching this story.
From creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien and based on a true story, the Showtime series Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber follows Travis Kalanick , who started one of Silicon Valley’s most successful companies in Uber, but who was also ultimately kicked out of his own boardroom. The upstart transportation company rocked the business world as Travis’ win-at-all-costs approach fueled its meteoric rise into a multi-billion dollar machine while also being responsible for its downfall.
What does your relationship with Rian Johnson, on a professional and personal level, mean to you? You don’t get to have such a long-running relationship too often, as an actor with a filmmaker, so what’s it like to have someone like him to collaborate with? RELATED: 'Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber' Trailer Reveals Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the CEO of the Revolutionary App
GORDON-LEVITT: This is one of those ones that you hope for and wait for. These don’t come around all the time. These don’t just fall in your lap. Within the first few pages of reading this script, I was like, “Oh, this is gonna be so fun.” They took this guy who, on the one hand, is making highly questionable decisions and is guilty of highly questionable ethical behavior, and yet, at the same time, is talking in these rat-a-tat-tat fireworks that are just so much fun to play.
GORDON-LEVITT: I think there’s a lot to like about him, actually. I think there’s something basic and primal in all of us that wants to just take what we want, win at all costs, and fuck everybody else. We all have that inside ourselves. We don’t indulge it. At least, we don’t indulge it all the time. And Travis is an example of someone who just leaned as hard as he could into that beast inside. I think that’s really attractive, to do that.
Were there physical things, mannerisms, or things you wanted to do with your voice or your speech pattern when it came to portraying him?
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