Joseph Gordon-Levitt Reveals He and Wife Tasha Welcomed Baby No. 3

Joseph Gordon-Levitt just might be the ultimate secret keeper.

After two years of keeping his baby girl’s arrival under wraps, the Don Jon actor casually shared a little bit about his 2-year-old’s vivid imagination on a recent episode of the PBS podcast American Masters: Creative Spark. “I’m a dad. You know, one of the best parts I think about playing with kids is their lack of inhibition, willingness to just, like, pretend that something else is happening,” Gordon-Levitt said. “Pretend that reality is, is completely something else.”

“My daughter’s almost 2. She’ll just be perfectly happy to pretend to make eggs. And there are no eggs. She doesn’t care. She doesn’t need convincing VFX,” he continued. “All you have to do is go ‘shhhh’ and a pretend faucet is turned on. It’s water. That I think is a lot of acting and you can just make reality whatever you want to. It’s magic.”

Along with his daughter, Gordon-Levitt shares two sons that they welcomed in August 2015 and June 2017 with his wife Tasha McCauley. Generally tight-lipped about his family life in 2020, Gordon-Levitt opened up about his favorite daily routine with his boys. “I dance every day with my kids," he told People. “Right now, they’re really into Gene Kelly and Gregory Hines, two of the all-time greats.”

“What’s fantastic is my boys can’t tell how mediocre a dancer I really am,” he joked. “They think I’m just another one of those legends. Soon enough, they’ll learn the truth, but for now, it’s pure glory.”

Our congratulations to Gordon-Levitt and McCauley on their lovely family of five!