Actors Talk Lord of the Rings, Kids on Set and Family Life

If they don't think I'm cool after Lord of the Rings, I'm done.

Like- ... like, if, if, if that's not good enough for my kids, then I don't know what else to tell them.

Fuck you, kid. Like, I'm like, "Hey, kids, this is as cool as Daddy's gonna get."

You know? Is it? Are they stoked? Are they, like, so excited?

Yeah. That was the, that was the first time that they've come to set.

Um, they were, you know, with me in New Zealand, not for the whole time.

They couldn't be for school, but they were out there for about half the time I was there.

Uh, it was the first time they've come to set where they were really...

Usually, they ask to leave. Like, they come to set- Mm-hmm ... and after half an hour, they're like, "You're just saying the same thing over and over. This is so boring. Can we go?"

Um, but they, yeah, they came to set one night when I was, like, fighting and beheading orcs and stuff, and they were like...

It was, it was cool. It was a good, it was a, a good to see Daddy all heroic like that, so.

Yeah, my boys could care less. I'm like, they come to the, they went to the premiere of, um, my movie, and they had never, you know, seen anything of, of that scale, like, of that magnitude.

But at the end of the day, I realized they just want me to be Dad. Like- Yeah ... they just wanna go in the yard.

They wanna, like, you know, barbecue and play in the pool.

Like, they, you know, they wanna play pickleball.

That's, that's all they want, you know, which I love.

I love the fact that all they want from me is me.

And I feel very blessed and fortunate that they get to see me go to work and what I do at work, but then when I come home, we get to be one big family.

Are, are they beating you at pickleball yet?

Dude, it's- Yeah, I, I can answer that. Yeah, they are.