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Appearing on Tuesday’s NBC Today, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt gushed over playing NSA leaker Edward Snowden in a new movie and even compared the fugitive former intelligence analyst to a civil rights icon: “...he did break the law and he admits that he broke the law, but then there’s examples of people who break the law who aren’t necessarily doing the wrong thing. Like one example I thought of is Rosa Parks.”
Gordon-Levitt continued: “You know, back in her day, it was illegal where she lived for a black person to sit on the front of the bus and she was told to go sit on the back of the bus and she refused. And at that time, that was breaking the law and half the country thought she was a criminal. But we look back and now we're grateful that she broke that law.”