Joseph Gordon-Levitt Sorry For Claiming “Most Pretty Girls Aren’t Funny”

July 20, 2012 by Hollywoodite

Earlier this week, Joseph Gordon-Levitt appeared at Comic-Con to promote Looper in which he plays a young Bruce Willis with a nightmarish prosthetic-laden face. The 31-year-old was asked by a journalist about his co-star Emily Blunt and what it was like to work with her. He responded, in part, some variation of “She’s funny… and let’s face it, most pretty girls aren’t funny,” to which a Variety reporter claims Blunt “visibly bristled.”

Gordon-Levitt’s getting a lot of heat for what’s being taken as a misogynistic comment about how women can be attractive or smart/ funny but not both which is page one of the Misogynist Handbook.

Asked on the red carpet for The Dark Knight Rises London movie premiere, Gordon-Levitt denies using that wording and tries to explain himself as shown in this video. He tells the OMG Yahoo reporter: “Well, I didn’t quite say THAT, but I did misspeak and… uh… I’m actually glad you asked me about that ‘cause I was embarrassed uh sometimes the words come out really wrong and um… sometimes the words come out really wrong in front of thousands of people and it’s embarrassing and I do apologize. I think what I was trying to get at was that in our culture girls do get pigeonholed and I was talking about um my co-star in the movie Looper, Emily Blunt, and… um… I was trying, and failing, to pay her a complement and the fact that she really uh succeeded in avoiding those traps in not getting pigeonholed, even though she is a very good looking young woman, she is so funny and plays such a badass and a strong uh woman in Looper and… uh… so thanks for asking me about that.”