Robin Williams: 30 years after Hook, what happened to Charlie Korsmo, his son in Spielberg’s film?

“For as long as I can remember, my main ambition was to not go to school and make enough money to buy a Nintendo. I never looked at acting with the ambition of making it my career.”

This is how Charlie Korsmo described his first steps in cinema, interviewed by the website two years ago Case Western Reserve University, in which he now teaches law. However, in the early 90’s, when young Charlie was barely ten years old, his early career in the Hollywood spotlight got off to a happy start.

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Like Macaulay Culkin or Edward Furlong (whom he almost replaced opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2), Charlie Korsmo was briefly among the movie’s child stars. Opposite Jessica Lange and Joan Cusack in the comedy-drama Men Don’t Leave, he was also seen opposite Warren Beatty in the cop comedy Dick Tracy, then as Richard Dreyfuss’ son in What’s Up, Bob? by Frank Oz.

But it was in 1992, when Steven Spielberg himself offered him a role in an adaptation of Peter Pan, that Charlie Korsmo experienced his most memorable shooting, playing the role of Robin Williams’ son kidnapped by Captain Hook in the fairy tale Hook.

However, aside from a final role in the 1998 teen comedy Big Party (with Jennifer Love Hewitt and Seth Green), Charlie Korsmo left filming entirely the moment he left Neverland at the end of Spielberg’s film. But why did he decide to end his career? And what happened to him all these years?

As he later stated in an interview, after earning enough money to finance his studies (and his Nintendo!), the young actor decided to go back to school. He also continued his studies for many years, going so far as to earn a physics degree at MIT before going on to study law and earn a doctorate at Yale University. Ironically, he ended up doing the same job as Robin Williams in Hook, as he later noted:

“I went to law school where I met my current wife. We decided to move to New York, where I worked as a lawyer.”Charlie Korsmo said In an interview given on Siena Bocchio channel.

“When we wanted to have kids, let’s say, working as a lawyer at a big firm wasn’t… Let’s say, if you’ve seen Hook, you know that my dad in the movie, Robin Williams, is a corporate lawyer. This is a pretty accurate representation of what the life of a corporate lawyer might be like. You never see your family, you work 3000 hours a year. I really didn’t want to do it.”

In order to prioritize family life, Charlie Korsmo decided to put his skills to work for a new generation and teach law at university. A job he is still doing today at the age of 45.

While she hasn’t really returned to TV or film, she did have one last small role in the 2019 Aaron Shimberg drama Clinging to Life, which centers on a meeting between a flirtatious actress and a disfigured actor on the set of an independent horror film. .

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