The Privacy Debate is On

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT, set to star as Edward Snowden in a new biopic from director Oliver Stone, says it’s a good time to talk about what it means to live in a democracy. hen director Oliver Stone called and asked him to play the lead in a movie about Edward Snowden, who exposed massive government surveillance programs, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was excited and nervous.

Not because he was playing a man some have called a hero and others have labeled a traitor. He admits he didn’t really understand the controversy surrounding Snowden.