Known for playing an alien in 3rd Rock From The Sun, a mawkish navel-gazer in 500 Days of Summer, and a dream-hopping-yet-humourless agent in Inception, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has taken on a new role as a busker.

The actor, set to appear in the forthcoming fact based thriller, Snowdon dragged a drum kit down to the New York Subway to perform a set as part of his Everyday, Spectacular performance art project.

The diminutive star hammers at his drums largely unnoticed until an onlooker remarks that he bears a striking resemblance to children's entertainer and adult cinema enthusiast 'Pee-wee Herman'.

Snowdon, the story of Edward Snowdon's whilsteblowing controversy is in cinemas later this year.