Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
August 22 - 28, 2021 l 3
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
OF ‘MR. CORMAN’ ON APPLE TV+
How did you like filming “Mr. Corman”
in New Zealand after production in
Los Angeles was shut down due to the
pandemic?
It’s funny because I wrote the show about where
I’m from, which is a relatively mundane place,
the San Fernando Valley. It’s the suburbs of Los
Angeles. But the truth is anyplace in the world
has a unique flavor, and part of what I was really
excited about doing was leaning into the unique
flavor even of a mundane place like the suburbs
where I grew up. And so we thought it would
be pretty easy to capture that flavor because we
were going to be shooting it there.
And then when we came here, we had to use all
kinds of movie magic to capture the unique flavor
of Van Nuys, California. But I think we’ve been
successful. Even though a part of the show is shot
in L.A. and part of it is shot in New Zealand, I
think it still really feels like the place where I grew
up.
How has building a series from the ground up been for you?
I actually love the serial storytelling. I’ve haven’t been on a series like this since “Third Rock From
the Sun,” which is a very different style of television. “Third Rock” was a classic sitcom in that we
would basically put on a play and then they would have four cameras there. We would do it in
front of an audience. They shot it in the classic sitcom style. You know, Jim Burrows, who directed
our pilot – you know, Jim Burrows directed “Cheers” and a million other classic TV shows like that.
And so “Third Rock” was a blast but “Mr. Corman” is much more like making movies than making
that kind of TV. It’s just like it’s a movie that’s broken up into sort of 10 short films, and I love the
medium of short films. And I really love getting to dive that deeply into a character.
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