Jeff Goldblum became a first-time dad at age 62. Nearly a decade later, he’s looking back at the “great task” and what it’s taught him.
“It’s amazing,” the actor told The Independent in an interview published on 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, shares 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 explained 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 recently 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 continued at the time. “It’s an important thing to teach kids. I’m not going to do it for you. And you’re not going to want me to do it for you.”
“You’ve got to figure out how to find out what’s wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what you can do. And even if it doesn’t, you might have to do that anyway.”
Goldblum currently stars as Zeus in Netflix’s upcoming series “Kaos.” The darkly comedic and contemporary Greek mythology series explores the war between the Greek Gods and humans, gender politics, power and life in the underworld.
“My character is complicated and charismatic, not to mention cruel,” the actor told Tudum earlier this month. “Charlie Covell’s [writer] writing leapt off the page and struck my gizzard like a lightning bolt as something spectacularly smart, surprising, unexpected, profound, and deeply moving.”
Goldblum will star alongside Janet McTeer, David Thewlis, Cliff Curtis, Debi Mazar and Billie Piper in the eight-part episodic series.
“Kaos” premieres on Netflix on Aug. 29.
