Calling London: Josh Duhamel speaks paternity guilt and parented

Josh Duhamel He took home a new commitment to raise his sons after playing a dead beat father in his new film, London Calling.

“It was fun to look at some of the things I could even make them better as a father,” said Duhamel, 52, Weekly US Before the film Friday, September 19, theatrical release. “I work a lot, and I often have a lot of guilt about not being there as often as I can be. So I’m trying to over -mend or do things to be there often.”

He continued, “But at the same time, you want your child to look and see (that) This is what you have to do to accommodate your family. So on the one hand, you can’t be there all the time, because you have to be setting an example.

Fortunately for Duhamel, he has two amazing women on his team. The Ransom canyon A star credits his “amazing lady“ Airstrairand ex-wife Fergie – “Incredible Mum” – in helping him become a more present father despite his challenging work schedule. (Duhamel shares a shepherd, 20 months, with Mari, and Axel, 12, with Fergie.)

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“We all have to work together to make this thing work,” he told Us. Duhamel emphasized that when he is home, He’s “with” his children – But location shooting can be difficult. That’s especially true of a project like London Calling, filmed midway around the world in Cape Town, Australia.

“If you’re in Vancouver or New Mexico, it’s one thing. But when you’re in Cape Town, there’s no going back and forth on the weekends,” he explained. “You’re either there aren’t you. So it’s a battle.”

Learning how to balance career and personal life is certainly a running theme London calls. The actor stars as Tommy in the acting comedy, a murderer washed up for hire and a catastrophic father tasked with mentoring an 18 -year -old (Jeremy Ray Taylor) He doesn’t even want around. For Duhamel, the role is closely cut in more than one way.

“There are a lot of things I do and there are many things I need to work on. Us In the premiere of Los Angeles the film on Monday, September 15. “And I think Jeremy (Ray Taylor )’s character in the film makes him realize that.”

To be clear, Taylor’s character, Julian, is not a Tommy child – only a teenager is neglected by his own father (Rick Hoffman) and longing for some fatherly guidance. Despite Tommy’s initial scare for having to take on a mentorai while already struggling to keep himself alone above the water, the unexpected pairing “odd couple” turns out to be a blessing in disguise for both of them.

“It’s kind of age for both of us, in a strange way. (Tommy is a) a guy who has probably had some arrested development, and never completely measured,” Duhamel said of his character. “Definitely he did not step up as a father as he should be.

He continued, “I think that’s the beauty of this film. It’s packed. It’s (a) comedy. It’s shot beautifully, but at the end of the day it’s about fathers and sons and steps up as a parent.”

While Duhamel joked that being a “terrible father” is one thing he has in common with Tommy – surely his children would not disagree – the actor saw much more similarities between fact and fiction. Tommy is always pursuing the next big post, for example, something that someone with a decades career in Hollywood could get transferable.

“He is like an athlete at the end of his career, who knows that he thinks he is still getting, still having the fast ball, still getting all the speed, but now you’re starting to lose a step as you get older,” said Duhamel. “And I think anyone at my age is starting to feel that. You know, his look is not quite what he used to be. It’s not as good as he used to be.”

One big difference between the two? Tommy is evident at the end of his run, while in many ways, Duhamel begins. London calls Latest big screen feat, but also crushes it as the grieving heart and widow Stanton Kirkland on Netflix’s Ransom canyon. who was recently green for season 2.

For Duhamel, the “defective” characters who feel most interesting to undertake.

“I don’t want to play a man who is perfect. There’s no fun in that,” he told Us. “I want to play who is a man who has trouble finding him, a man who doesn’t always do the right thing, a man who makes mistakes and hopes to learn from or maybe nothing, and he has to keep a kind of lifting himself, dust himself away and get back in the game, back in the saddle, because that’s all we get his figure.”

London calls Hitting theaters on Friday, September 19.