Clive Owen on life with his daughters and how he quit smoking for his family
Actor Clive Owen, 42, opened up to Details about the acting, life with his two daughters; Hannah, 10 and Eva, 8, and how having a baby is what finally got him to quit smoking. On bringing a baby into the world and what made him stop lighting up, Clive said,
I talked about it all through the pregnancy, but I didn’t do anything about it. I had smoked since I was f—in’ 14. I always used to say to myself, I’m going to die of lung cancer. That’s the choice I’m making.
And then when [my wife] Sarah-Jane was pregnant, I couldn’t think about anything else. I just had this image in my head of breathing smoke in a baby’s face. You just think about it going into their little lungs. And when Hannah was born, I stopped. Hard. Dead.
On life with his wife and kids he said,
I have to drag Sarah-Jane to a premiere. Her ultimate present, which I bought her a few years ago, was a Volkswagen Caravan van. She’s into arts and crafts, and hanging with the kids, and going camping. She’s very unimpressed by what I do. The girls have very high status in my house. I’m the git in the family.
Hannah is equally unimpressed. ‘Every time I go away, Hannah gives me what I call her Roger Moore face,’ Clive says, folding his arms and pulling a face that looks exactly like one a disapproving 10-year-old would make.
