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Clive Owen is a dad to two girls, Hannah, 12 and Eve, 9. His most recent movie role is in The Boys Are Back where he takes on the portrayal of a grief-stricken dad trying to raise his two sons. Clive did an interview with SheKnows about the role and his real-life role as a father to his little girls. Here are the highlights:

On how the film affected him since he is a dad: Very personal in terms that parenting has always been a huge part of my life. I’ve always considered it to be very separate from making movies really. I go off and make movies, I go home and I hang with the girls. This was the first script that really explored a big part of my life in that way and from a guy’s perspective. I was very taken with it. I thought it was beautifully written, very accurate, very honest. It’s sort of the ups and downs of parenting.

On what attracted him to the movie since he has two daughters: Yeah. We’ve seen lots of films with a guy and a small boy or a guy and children but the equation of a teenaged boy from a previous marriage coming into it, I thought sort of took you somewhere else. The dynamics became much more interesting. Because, you’ve got everything that (the teen) is carrying coming out to see his father. And then, he’s got to connect with the little one. It’s a very good way to explore quite complicated relationships within a family.

On meeting with Nick (Nicholas McAnulty), the little actor playing your younger son, to get some bonding going on: Yeah. I made sure I got out to Australia nice and early. I took him out for days away from his parents, away from the film people. We went to wildlife parks. We went to Fun Faire. We went on our own and sort of said goodbye to everybody because I knew it was hugely important that he trusted me. The film had lots of fun times and some of the times were tough and I needed him to be able to trust me. When things were not very well (in the story) to not think ‘why is Clive acting strange?’ I needed him to always have faith that we’d always come back to the same place. The bond between us for the film was very important. You have to believe that we’re comfortable and I’m his dad. Otherwise, you have no film.

On his experiences of being a parent helped him in the movie: It played into lots in terms of the situations we found ourselves in in the film. You can’t help but pull on times that you’ve had with your kids. There was a lot of tweaking with ‘that doesn’t ring true’. Or ‘it’s not like that’. It didn’t worry me to push the tougher times. All parents can relate to when their kids go into a funk and they’ve got nowhere to go and where do they go from here? How do you deal with a 6-year-old who gets into his little corner and doesn’t want to come out? I really wanted to explore that because every parent will relate to that. We’ve all been in these situations so it did infuse quite a lot.

On his most important advice on being a parent: To love them

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