Ethan Hawke says there's "one thing" he thinks his daughters wish he hadn't done in his career.
The Blue Moon actor says his teenage girls, 17-year-old Clementine and 14-year-old Indiana, aren't too chuffed about his cameo in a Taylor Swift music video. Ethan said he was "flattered" when the pop sensation asked him to star in her 2024 promo for Fortnight alongside his Dead Poets Society co-star Josh Charles.
However, his teenage daughters weren't as thrilled about it as one might think. Chatting with Sunday Times Culture magazine, he said: "This is an example of things being not what they seem.
"Did I do it for my teenage daughters? No. I took them to a Taylor Swift concert for them.
"But I did it because Taylor asked and I was flattered that she knew what Dead Poets Society is. But strangely, it's the one thing that I think my kids wish I hadn't done."
When asked if it was because their mates would see the video, he responded: "No, because I took Taylor away from them! They had their own relationship with Taylor's music and now Dad got a Christmas card from her, or whatever.
"It was, like, 'Tchuh! What's Dua Lipa doing now?' You know?"
Ethan also made a candid confession about life after divorce, having separated from his first wife, actress Uma Thurman, back in 2005. The pair share two children, 27-year-old Stranger Things star Maya and 23-year-old Blink Twice actor Levon.
Ethan said that after his divorce from Uma, he had promised himself not to get involved in another relationship or have more children. However, he ended up marrying Ryan Shawhughes - who had previously been a babysitter for his older kids - in 2008.
The pair then had Clementine and Indiana together. He said: "When I split up I was hellbent on not having any more kids and I wanted to be single for the rest of my life.
"But then I made a best friend and I liked kissing her." The 55-year-old actor thinks keeping a marriage together is "tremendously" challenging, and whilst going through a divorce in the spotlight of Hollywood was difficult, he stressed the aspects that made it "hard" were identical to those faced by other former couples.
He said: "The public eye is like gasoline, but what makes divorce hard is the stuff that makes it hard for everyone - the family elements, how to help the kids through it. I'm so envious of people who have amicable splits.
"I can't really talk about this because I vowed to my kids so many times not to talk about the divorce in public.
"But one thing I will say is if you get the privilege of travelling the world, you realise that everywhere men and women have a tremendous amount of difficulty staying married."