Joseph Gordon Levitt Lets His Hair And Tattoos Do The Talking In This Clip From HESHER

Comic-con is a strange place sometimes, a place where - increasingly - PR people flood en masse not because they have something comic themed or even particularly appropriate to the crowds there but simply because there are lots of people all whipped up into a buying frenzy.

So if you're wondering why a Sundance-playing drama like Hesher is at Comic-Con, well, that's why. That and the Natalie Portman factor.

But put aside questions of appropriateness for now because, to go along with the Con appearance, they have also just released the first extensive clip from the film, one in which a very hairy Joseph Gordon Levitt - looking WORLDS away from his character in Inception - becomes an unlikely savior to Natalie Portman. Check it below!