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Clive Owen Opens Up About Playing a Dad Onscreen

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In his new film The Boys Are Back, Clive Owen — a father-of-two in real life — plays a parent onscreen, a role he says was long overdue.

“It felt like I was exploring a big part of my life that I haven’t explored in my work before,” the 44-year-old actor noted shortly before the film premiered this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. “I am a parent of two girls and I’ve always seen that as very separate. I go off and make movies and the rest of the time I’m a parent. And this was a script exploring all that world.”

Although the subject matter was at times dark — Clive portrays a widower raising his two sons — the contrasting parenting styles of moms and dads was nonetheless fun to explore. “A day with dad is inevitably different from a day with mom,” Clive notes. “It just is.”

“I think that the heavy, nurturing thing that a mother brings to a child is different from a guy. This is taken to the extreme, but there is almost an element of that with dad. I think it’s just an instinct thing. We’re not as overly protective as mothers are. Sometimes that’s not good, but I like that the film is about that, too.”

One thing Clive is clearly protective of with daughters Hannah, 12, and Eve, 10, is their movie viewing habits! Most of his films have been off-limits to the girls, prompting him to quip, “They’ll have a lot to catch up [on] when they’re 18.”

Hannah and Eve are Clive’s daughters with wife Sarah-Jane Fenton. The Boys Are Back hits theaters September 25th.

Source: Vancouver Sun

– Missy

Anne Heche Calls James Tupper 'A Wonderful Father'

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It’s two thumbs up for first-time father James Tupper, actress Anne Heche says. With the couple recently welcoming their first child together — son Atlas, 6 months — Anne has nothing but praise for her partner. “He’s a wonderful father,” the Hung star reveals in the September 21st issue of Us Weekly.

Her high marks may have something to do with the pair’s schedule. While Anne, 40, deals with Atlas’ midnight feedings, James happily takes the morning shift.

“I get up at night now with the baby, but when Atlas gets up at 8 for his morning I’m-ready-to-rock, it’s daddy time!” she laughs.

“He takes the baby for three hours and gives me a little break.”

In addition to Atlas, Anne is also mom to 7 ½-year-old Homer, her son with ex-husband Coley Laffoon.

Source: Us Weekly; September 21 issue

– Anya

David Boreanaz: Life is 'All Good' With New Baby

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It’s been two and a half weeks since David Boreanaz and wife Jaime Bergman welcomed their second child, daughter Bardot Vita, and everyone is “happy and healthy,” the Bones star tells PEOPLE’s Celebrity Baby Blog. “It’s all good.”

Enjoying a short break at FOX’s Eco-Casino party on Monday, David compared the transition into fatherhood to the situation his character of Seeley Booth is working through on Bones, calling it a “very interesting road … looking at love, finding it and trying to apply it to somebody who really is special.”

Costar Emily Deschanel added that the new dad was a little “nervous before the baby was born,” but is now “just so happy. He’s excited to be a daddy again!” Calling baby Bardot “adorable,” the actress reveals that the proud papa is “always showing pictures of her [on set].”

The chemistry may be palpable between David and Emily’s onscreen characters, but off camera, it’s David’s 7-year-old son, Jaden Rayne, with whom Emily has formed a tight bond.

“It sounds terrible,” jokes Emily, “but we play like stuntmen. Basically we pretend to beat each other up. It’s so much fun. We tackle each other and it’s fun. You can say we play football together!”

Bones airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. EST on FOX.

–- Jed Dreben