Jeff Goldblum calls fatherhood a ‘great task’ after refusing to leave money for his children
nypost.comthe Independent in an interview published Sunday. “Every emotion comes up, and you are forced to examine everything that you model and could be better at.
It’s a great task and opportunity.”Goldblum, 71, has sons Charlie, 9, and River, 7, with his wife, Emilie Livingston.The “Jurassic Park” actor told iNews in 2018 that it was the right time for him to have children.“I’m glad I waited.
It feels great to do it right now, because all the things I’m considering are perfectly suited to the big questions and challenges of having kids, and what you want to expose them to,” he said at the time. “What you want to leave them with, what life is, and what kind of life you contribute to them.”Goldblum and Livingston, 41, a former Olympic gymnast, met at an Equinox in California in 2011.“And I saw her from across the crowded room and I marched up to her in a trance and began some kind of conversation,” he said during a Wired interview in 2018.Goldblum and Livingston married in 2014.
They welcomed Charlie in 2015 and River in 2017.“The Fly” star told iHeartPodcast “Table for Two With Bruce Bozzi” that his children will have to support themselves when they get older.“Well, I keep doing the math, and keep extrapolating where they’re going to be, and where I’m going to be,” he said in May. “And when I buy a watch, I wonder who’s going to get it.”“Hey, you know, you’ve got to row your own boat,” he said. “It’s an important thing to teach kids.
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