In 2015, he recalled telling Lively that he loved her more than anything, so much he would take a bullet for her. Once they got James, he told the reporter that if a bullet was needed to save her. The Late Show with David Letterman“The second I saw that child’s eyes I knew that I would protect the baby by using my wife to shield us if ever attacked.”
Even waking up in the middle of the night, the new dad rhapsodized to E! at the time, “you got a big stupid smile on your face. If you had to wake up every 45 mins, then you would kill that. When it is a baby it’s one of the greatest things that has ever happened.
And it’s in these quiet moments that he continued to have real epiphanies.
He told him: “You are worrying about stupid things.” TODAY‘s Willie GeistJames, who was then 3 months old, could become an actor someday. You sort of sit and think, “Oh my god, will she want to do that? “I like to whisper to her, ‘Really normal jobs …’You are going to be an airline attendant… a barista…Just wonderful, ordinary jobs where you can live a normal life.