Why Kyle Chandler and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Didn't Consult Super Pumped's Real-Life Characters
It's this question that drew the actors to the Showtime's upcoming anthology seriesand explores the ride-share app's impact on society.
Gordon-Levitt—who plays the disgraced CEO—was fascinated by Kalanick's success, despite all his shortcomings. "He made billions of dollars," the actor explained in an interview with E! News. "Why is our system rewarding that? Why doesn't our system reward companies that are looking out for everybody's well-being?"specifically pertains to the tech world, but asserted, "This isn't just Silicon Valley, this is how our system works right now.
Going into the project, both Chandler and Gordon-Levitt decided not to reach out to their respective characters so as not to sway their depiction of these people. Chandler thought this was for the best, explaining to E! News in a separate interview, "Whatever I would have heard, I would have taken very seriously and it would have altered something. It would have became something that I'm not trying to do.
Gordon-Levitt went a different route, choosing to speak to those who knew Kalanick instead of the CEO himself. He felt this was "more informative" than reading articles or even the book the show is based on, saying, "What you see in the press is largely the questionable decisions he makes or has made and the questionable behavior that he's perhaps guilty of."
"What you don't get a sense of is what it actually feels like to have a conversation with him, to be close with him or be friends with him," he continued. "When I talked to people that were close to him, I got a much better sense of like, 'Oh, this is a big part of why he was so successful.' People actually really liked being around him. He's really convincing; he's really winning; like he's actually really inspiring in a lot of ways.
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