Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one actor who doesn’t have to worry about his girlfriend using him for the fame after she begged him to keep her secret.
The 32-year-old Don Jon actor refuses to reveal the identity of his mystery lover on her request.
‘I have a girlfriend but I tend not to really like to talk about it in public. She is not in show business,’ he confessed. ‘The girl that I’m with, she really doesn’t want to be a part of it. You can imagine not wanting to have that kind of scrutiny.’
The brooding star said it will only make his screen characters weaker if people buy into his love life.
‘I get up in movies and I play other people, so when the audience is watching me in movies, I don’t want them thinking about me and who I’m dating, and blah blah blah. I want them to see the character, the story that I’m telling.’
Pressed to reveal his girl’s name by US’shock jock’ Howard Stern, he resisted: ‘Oh, jeez, man! Come on! This is getting private.’
Gordon-Levitt stars with Scarlett Johansson in Don Jon, the new flick about porn and sex addictions.
