“I never saw acting as a lifelong career ambition.”
He would eventually return, but it wouldn’t stick.
Here’s what he’s been up to since you last saw him on the silver screen.
“But I hadn’t been in school for a few years.
I suddenly found I didn’t really have friends my own age anymore.”
“I was tired of the grind and wanted to go back to school,” he said.
Evidently, Hollywood wasn’t as eager to part ways with the young star.
“I still had a lot of offers at that point to keep doing things,” he said.
Clearly, he took to academia like a duck to water.
After he graduated from high school, Korsmo headed to college.
In a separate interview with The Plain Dealer, the “What About Bob?”
actor also quipped that the science degree gave him “credibility.”
And by all accounts, he didn’t regret this brief return to Hollywood.
“It’s more fun to make movies when you’re 19 than when you’re 10.”
He graduated in 2006.
After law school, he spent time working for a 2nd Circuit Court judge.
That, and gouts of cash, which hasn’t worked out as well."
That is an accurate depiction of what a corporate lawyer’s life is.
The professor sings and plays keyboard for a faculty-student band that’s fittingly named Raising the Bar.
In addition to being a well-respected law professor, Korsmo also a published law scholar.
With such an impressive resume, it is no wonder many aspiring lawyers look to Korsmo as a guide.
The “Can’t Hardly Wait” actor’s advice to his students is pretty plain and simple.
Always surprisingly sound advice."
“I don’t see myself giving up anything to do it,” Korsmo said to The Daily.
“I’m happy with the way things turned out.
I quit at the right time.
So yeah, I was very fortunate,” Korsmo told WKYC in 2019.
According to Korsmo, working as a professor at Case Western Reserve University is his favorite job ever.
“I also have the freedom to work on and delve into topics that I’m interested in.”
“I still exchange Christmas cards with Steven Spielberg,” Korsmo told People.
“I never had a bad experience on a movie,” he told The Plain Dealer in 2014.
“You hear stories about Warren Beatty or Bill Murray.
But everyone was very nice to me.”
A savvy guy, to say the least.
