Ryan Reynolds announced in December in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he was taking some time off from work to stay home with his three daughters—James, 6, Inez, 5, and Betty, 2—with wife Blake Lively. He said that he wanted to create some space for his family during this busy season of life before his kids are “teenagers who loathe me.”
Well he’s changed his tune… a little. He joked on TODAY that he would be “taking the first movie that I can find” to get back to work.
Reynolds said in a video interview with LinkedIn‘s News Senior Editor at Large Jessi Hempel “The biggest thing for me… is that I don’t want to miss this time with my kids.” Parents of young kids everywhere know that staying home with them isn’t all sunshine and butterflies. But we also know that they don’t stay little forever, and Reynolds decided to opt-in on the privilege of being able to put work on the back burner to spend more time at home.
He also explained that he wants his kids to have some normalcy, too– including in their schedules. “For many years when my wife Blake would shoot a film, I would not shoot a film and I would be with the kids and vice versa,” he said. “So we would sort of trade-off. We never really worked at the same time. But always we were away. So the kids were away, too.”
And it appears it’s gone exactly how those of us in the know would expect. “Morning routine is just so unpredictable, there’s anxiety” he explained Monday on TODAY. “I lay awake at night and think ‘what’s going to happen to me in the morning, how’s this going to go down, are one of these children going to strike me?'”
Reynolds also addressed another phenomenon of staying-at-home. “I’m no less busy, I’m just home more.” Are we the only ones imagining Reynolds in yoga pants and a man bun, chasing a goal all day and instead just keeping the kids fed? And even though he jokes “It’s been hell, I’m going right back,” he also tapped into the universal truth that all parents know.
“It’s been great. I’m still busy but I get to be there for my kids in the morning and at night I get to put everyone to bed, so I love that.”
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