In 2015, he recalls telling Lively that he loved her more than anything, so much so that he would take a bullet for her. And once they got James, he said above Late Show with David Letterman“The moment I looked that baby in the eye, I knew at that moment that if we were attacked, I would use my wife as a living shield to protect that baby.”
Even waking up in the middle of the night, new father rhapsodized to E! at the time, “you have a stupid grin on your face. Anything else that wakes you up every 45 minutes, you kill it. But when it’s a kid, it’s the best thing ever happened to you.”
And it is in these quiet moments that he continues to have real epiphanies.
“You worry about really stupid things,” he said speak TODAY‘S Willie Geist about the possibility James was 3 months old at the time become an actor someday. “And you just sit there and say, ‘Oh my gosh, does she want to do this?’ I like to whisper in her ear, like really normal daily chores…’You’re going to be a flight attendant…a bartender…Just jobs. normal, wonderful that you can have a normal, good life.'”
