“She is not in show business,” doesn’t want to be, actor-director explains

Sep 26, 2013 08:20 GMT  ·  By
Joseph Gordon-Levitt breaks his own golden rule, tells Howard Stern he has a girlfriend
   Joseph Gordon-Levitt breaks his own golden rule, tells Howard Stern he has a girlfriend

Sad news for female fans of Joseph Gordon-Levitt: he’s spoken for, at least for the time being. In a new radio interview with Howard Stern, meant to promote his most recent film “Don Jon,” the actor reveals that he’s seeing someone.

You can always count on Howard to get the juiciest details from his fans.

He refuses to offer more info on the identity of the lucky gal, and stresses that the only reason he never talks about these things is because they tend to make it harder for him to make whatever character he’s playing more believable.

“I have a girlfriend, but I tend not to really like to talk about it in public. She is not in show business,” Joe tells Howard.

He explains that they met through mutual friends but, pressed for more details, he backs out.

“This is getting private! I don't want to — why should we talk about the personal details?” Joe continues.

Having people know every intimate detail about your personal life means that, as an actor, it’s increasingly difficult to become someone else in front of the camera and, more importantly, to do it in such a way as to be believable.

This is why Gordon-Levitt rarely talks about the women in his life and why he’ll probably continue doing the same.

Still, he says, “The girl that I'm with, she really doesn't want to be a part of that. You can imagine not wanting to have that scrutiny.”

She isn’t with him for fame, to launch her own career by first getting attention for being his girlfriend.

“Getting attention from girls for [being famous], I've always had a bit of a phobia about it in a way,” Joe says.

In the same interview, the star talks about “Don Jon,” which he wrote and directed, and stars in opposite Scarlett Johansson, smoking weed, doing drugs, and wanting to break out of the proverbial box the industry tends to put people in.