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Originally posted by: Shin Densetsu @ Hisstank.com

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Recently, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who we'll see next month in G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra as The Doctor then as Cobra Commander, participated as a guest DJ at KCRW. He picked five songs that he used for inspiration to prepare for five specific roles, including Cobra Commander:

JGL: So the next song is one I would listen to when I was hyping myself up to do G.I. Joe and I play this kind of hyper-villainous – I hesitate to even call him a guy. He’s an archetype, he’s a legend. He’s a bad guy.

Song: Jay-Z’s “Say Hello”

JGL: It’s a Jay-Z song. Jay-Z has the perfect grandeur and bravado for this character. Jay-Z literally calls himself “J Hova” after God. He calls himself God MC, me, J Hova. And the character that I play in G.I. Joe certainly fancies himself a kind of God. I tend to usually like to play characters that are not black or white but some shade of gray and so it was kind of interesting to play character that was absolutely the bad guy, he’s the villain. When you play with G.I. Joe toys, that’s the phrase you use when you’re playing when you’re 5 – ‘are you a good guy or a bad guy?’ ‘Oh here come the bad guys!’ ‘How many bad guys did you shoot?’ And that’s what I was doing, getting to be the bad guy. Say hello.

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