Joseph Gordon Levitt on Making Mr. Corman and Casting Debra Winger

Joseph GordonLevitt s career has always involved work in both film and TV, but Mr. Corman represents his first major commitment to a show since 3rd Rock From the Sun. However, he s also bringing an auteur sensibility to the new Apple TV+ series premiering today, as not just the star but the creator, cowriter, and director of eight of the 10 episodes. Mr. Corman features GordonLevitt as a teacher living in Los Angeles, struggling to cope with anxiety and other issues with the help of his roommate Victor (Arturo Castro) and mother Ruth (Debra Winger). It s an intimate character study set in contemporary times so contemporary, in fact, that Season 1 was rewritten to accommodate the pandemic, which shut down the original production and shifted the story to some though, as GordonLevitt revealed during a oneonone interview, not as much as you might have expected. In the transcript below and the video above, GordonLevitt explains how the pandemic altered the series, why i