00:00Do they ever think about following in dad's footsteps at all?
00:03Or are they kind of like focused on soccer and anime and not really like worried about the future?
00:06You know, it's interesting. I've got two older kids as well.
00:08And my oldest is here and she graduated from Carnegie Mellon.
00:12She's doing drama and she's being an actress.
00:17I think it's really interesting because we're talking about personality, aren't we?
00:20There was absolutely no way you were going to stop that kid from doing that.
00:24She was absolutely propelled that way.
00:27And so all you can do is go, here we go, baby girl.
00:31I can't get you into a drama school.
00:34I can help you audition.
00:36And it's like I always say to friends who go, or the Nepo baby thing.
00:42You think a big studio is going to employ somebody's kid because it's somebody's kid?
00:47They're not. It's a business.
00:49They're going to employ somebody because they're good at what they do.
00:52And so my son is a photographer, the eldest son.
00:56And, you know, he's kind of very analog and he really wants to shoot film.
01:01But he's also in that world where we're in AI and, you know, is there going to be photographers?
01:06So he's looking at like, is this what I want to do?
01:08But as far as the younger kids are concerned, they are running as far and as quickly,
01:16like, throwing women and babies behind them going, please keep me away from acting.
01:20Well, especially them because they have mom and dad on both sides of the acting chops.
01:24And Anna as well, because she was a child actress, is like, nah-ah.
01:27I know they have, well, I mean, they said that now studios are a little bit better with kids.
01:33Like, they realize like, oh, wait, to have a four-year-old act, we probably should have the parents.
01:36Like, we should, like, let them be a kid.
01:38But I'm sure she probably is like, do not go f***ing near us, dude.
01:41Like, have a childhood.
01:42Do you know what I mean?
01:42Or something like that.
01:43She, you know, her first experience on set, Anna, Anna Paquin is my wife,
01:46who played Sookie in True Blood.
01:47And that's how we met.
01:48Sookie, I think so.
01:49Sookie.
01:52Anna had the great sort of fortune of having Holly Hunter play her mom in the first job she did.
01:58And Holly just put Anna under her wing.
02:03And then Jane Campion, who was directing that movie, was the other wing.
02:07And so she grew up in this kind of extraordinarily nurtured environment on set.
02:12And was very lucky, you know, to have that as a first gig.
02:16And as we all know, there's many stories where people didn't get that opportunity.
02:20Don't have that, yeah.
02:21So she's got this sort of extraordinary work ethic that came from that,
02:24but also a familial tie to those two ladies.
02:29So, you know, I think that I wouldn't stop them if that's what they wanted to do.
02:34But if they want to do something else, we'll kind of very gently poke them with a stick
02:38and push them in that direction.
02:40Right.
02:40Go.
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