Joseph Gordon-Levitt Was Nearly Mugged In Paris

I'm actually headed to Paris soon open ceremony and it's like one of your favorites so what's something you love there why do you love it so much I mean the movies is really what France is all about for me you know the motion picture technology was invented in France I did not know this yeah it's the most Cinema loving place you'll ever be people go to the movies alone I don't know if any of you guys like doing this I like going to the cinema by myself I don't do this anymore cuz I'm a dad but like when I was younger yeah you know I would I would go to the movies alone and you'll you'll see other people who like on a Wednesday at 5:00 p.m. are going to some some obscure movie you've never heard of this is like love for movies before they were just you know like ah movies like moviesa like you know what I mean I love are people are parisians like do you pull it off to where it because you sound very Parisian like when you speak French it sounds really good I Haven I surpr right so I can speak well enough that sometimes people think I know how to talk I don't really know how to talk that well you can get by I can get by yeah okay so I once I once this reminds me this is my favorite Paris story do you want to hear it is it good or will it scare me or will I love it go ahead just say it it might scare you okay it'll it'll thrill you okay thrill that's a good word that's a good word okay so I was I was on the subway there they call lro the Subway yeah and this is a long time ago so I'm still carrying a portable CD players before everyone a disman was it anti skip anti oh you got to have the anti skip if you're riding there's strategies before everyone listen to music on your phone you have a dis man yeah all right so I'm standing there on the platform in my like you know I'm a 21-year-old skinny little dude okay wearing my like you know Euro spectacles yeah and these two kids walk up to me they're probably like 15 16 and they come talk to me in French and they're like What's that you have there I'm like this is this is my music I speak back to them in French and they're like let me see it like no no it's just my music I you don't need to see it and they start saying like yeah yeah I'm going to take it they finally they put their hands on my disc man and I switch from French to English yeah and I said what do you want to see it for in English yeah and as soon as he hears me speak English American English his whole demeanor changes you threw him off he makes a fist like this and he goes it's like Samuel Jackson in French I laughed in his face right oh my God it sounds kind that is not scary and then he just lost all of his confidence and he walked away he couldn't do [Applause] anything oh my God I love that story we're so different though I'm like have it sure I'm like I'm yeah sure I mean I would have gotten there I would have gotten there I didn't mean to scare him off it just funny the way he said an American curse word in a French oh my God you were trying to like intimidate me that's exactly did you just hit puberty yeah it's like okay did you watch Pulp Fiction good for you you feeling confident yes yes [Music] thank you guys so much

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