28-year-old Joseph Gordon-Levitt will play Duke, Channing Tatum’s best friend in the forthcoming blockbuster G.I Joe. Come July he will also star in Sundance favorite 500 Days of Summer, a bittersweet and darkly funny romantic comedy about the rise and fall of a young couple, told in non-linear fashion. That’s enough for Esquire to redefine Joe — that’s how he wants to be called — as a champion of the ‘Hollywood Third Way’, in between mainstream and indie, and transpose the whole maverick attitude in the above edit shot by Francesco Carrozzini, with that cute half dressy, half sporty style.

In the interview, Gordon-Levitt also points to a possible ‘Fourth Way’: “Today’s a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we’re the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don’t have to listen to anyone.”

And for all of you fans of Whichever-Way Joe, we added the series that David Sims shot for Vman — styled by the always impeccable Nicola Formichetti, with quite the Gothic mindset this time.

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