Snowden movie billboard along Sunset Strip 

No stranger to playing notable people from history after bringing legendary tightrope walker

Philippe Petit to life in The Walk movie, Joseph Gordon-Levitt turns his attention to a more recent controversial figure in the form of NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden.

In 2013 he infamously leaked classified documents detailing several secret surveillance programs around the globe, which proved that

\'Big Brother\' really was watching (and listening) and led many to regard him as a traitor to his country, but to others he was hailed a hero for exposing the U.S. and other governments spying on their citizens, calling into question the right the use of this mass surveillance and our rights to information privacy.

The actor really does resemble the film\'s namesake in this ad creative, and this

Snowden movie billboard was first snapped along West Hollywood\'s Sunset Strip on August 22, 2016.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, be sure to also check out these Looper movie billboards, these 50/50 movie billboards and these billboards for The Night Before movie.

Let\'s hope this biopic is good enough that the actor doesn\'t have to seek asylum in

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