These 10 Celebs Admitted Their Kids Don't Like Their Movies, And I Can't Believe They Hate The Classics
Whether they admit it or not, the adults out here raising children just want their kids' approval.
Imagine spending your entire career making families laugh and creating core childhood memories through your movies, only to have your children never watch them.
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Here are 10 actors whose children are just not that into their parents' movies.
1.Alexa PenaVega told E! News that her three children don't like her breakout hit Spy Kids. Her children are instead big fans of one of movie creator Robert Rodriguez's other kid-favorite films, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. "Everybody thinks I was Lavagirl. I was not Lavagirl, but my kids only watch Sharkboy and Lavagirl," Alexa said. "They don't like Spy Kids."
Alexa even said her son, Kingston, wishes she was in his favorite movie. "Kingston keeps telling me that I should have been Lavagirl." (It's actually actor Taylor Dooley who plays the character.) When you think about it, Carmen and her husband, Carlos PenaVega (of Big Time Rush), could pull off a great Sharkboy and Lavagirl Halloween costume.
2.In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Ben Affleck confessed to his bestie Matt Damon that his kids don't watch any of his movies except for Armageddon. "It's funny because that's the one movie of mine that my kids have watched and they'll kind of all admit to liking, even though they relentlessly mock it and me. 'What are you, driving a tank on the moon?' But they had fun, you know what I mean? They won't even watch The Town. So there you have it."
Matt responded, "My kids won't watch my stuff, either."
Ben and Jennifer Garner's kids must be MCU fans. Nobody saw Gigli, so there is no shame there. But Joseph: King of Dreams is a classic and does not deserve the disrespect.
3.Speaking of Matt Damon, he told CBS Sunday Morning that his teenage daughter likes to keep him humble. “You know, my 15-year-old refuses to see [Good Will Hunting],” Matt said. “She doesn’t want to see any movies that I’m in that she thinks might be good.”
Well, Matt's good in pretty much all of his movies. I'm trying to think of a bad Matt Damon movie, and I'm seriously drawing a blank. Am I low-key a Matty D stan? I just hope his kids watched Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, or my heart will break into a million pieces.
4.Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter "thinks it's weird" to see her on screen. In an interview with People, Gwyneth admitted, "My kids have never seen me in a movie," she said. "I mean, I think my son has seen the Iron Man things, but I don't think my daughter has ever seen me in a movie."
I get not watching their mom in Seven because I could barely sit through that movie. But how could they avoid watching teenage Wendy in Hook or the cleverly quirky classic, The Royal Tenenbaums?
5.Adam Sandler told Ellen DeGeneres his kids begged to watch his movies so they could understand all the inside jokes people shouted at him, but quickly changed their tune once they saw them. “I’d say about 20 minutes in, I see them tuning out, and then I hear them,” Adam said. “They’re nervous to say it, but [they’re] like, ‘Can we watch something else?’”
Wow. Times have changed. I was well-versed in Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and The Waterboy as a kid. Wait, there's no way they don't like Hotel Transylvania. That is probably one of the funniest animated series in this generation.
6.When Good Morning America asked which of his movies is his kids' favorite, Ben Stiller honestly replied, "They've seen one of my movies, Night at the Museum." He has a handful of great family comedies but said, "You don't want to be the parent begging your kids to watch your movies. But I think they'll come to it when they come to it."
Ok, now this one hurts. Ben Stiller is the master of family-friendly comedies. Condolences to all three of the Madagascar films his kids never watched and the underrated Megamind. But no Heavyweights too? To that, I must say — I'm shooketh.
7.At a premiere of Divergent, Kate Winslet admitted to BBC News her previous films were not her children's cup of tea. “They haven’t actually seen anything really that I’ve done, to be honest, before. They saw half of Titanic, but that was about it."
To be honest, I can barely stay awake long enough to watch half of Titanic, and I love that movie. Kate does have sophisticated filmography, but A Kid in King Arthur's Court is a deep-cut classic her kids need to jump on quickly.
8.On an episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen, a viewer asked Reese Witherspoon if she would ever let her kids watch Cruel Intentions. She responded, “They don’t have any interest in seeing me in a movie, it’s weird. It’s weird for them — they’re like, this is weird. And especially like, seeing me and their dad having sex in the movie…”
I'll give the kids a pass on this one. Cruel Intentions is not a suitable family home video. However, they should be grounded with no dessert if they haven't seen Legally Blonde at least 10 times.
9.During an interview for Jungle Cruise on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Emily Blunt talked about how it was the first time her daughters looked forward to one of her movies. “This interestingly has been the only trailer that they have watched multiple times — they are usually disinterested in seeing me on screen — they’re really into Jungle Cruise."
Emily and John Krasinki's kids are fairly young, so I'll give them some grace. A Quiet Place is still too much for me. However, mum does have Into The Woods and the Mary Poppins sequel on her roster — so Jungle Cruise can't be their only favorite.
10.Co-parents Courteney Cox and David Arquette's told Extra their daughter Coco couldn't care less about their films. “She’s seen part of Scream 1… She doesn’t like to watch anything we do…I’m gonna make her watch this with her eyes open….”
It's a horror flick. It's tough for anybody to watch. But knowing my mom and dad are in the fifth Scream film would excite me. It means they at least survived. The real question we should be asking is, does their daughter watch Friends?