Jason Sudeikis’ Rare Quotes About Fatherhood While Coparenting With Ex Olivia Wilde: ‘Being Present Is a Good Quality’
15.09.2022 - 18:47
/ usmagazine.com
His greatest role! Over the years, Jason Sudeikis has offered glimpses at his life as a father of two kids.
The former Saturday Night Live cast member expanded his family when then-fiancée Olivia Wilde welcomed their son, Otis, in April 2014. The actress later gave birth to their daughter, Daisy, in October 2016.
Sudeikis and Wilde, who announced their engagement in 2013, remained tight-lipped about their little ones during their relationship. In November 2020, Us Weekly confirmed that the pair called it quits after a seven-year engagement. Their split continued to make headlines when Wilde started dating Harry Styles, shortly after they met on the set of her film Don’t Worry Darling.
“I’ll have a better understanding of why [the split happened] in a year,” Sudeikis told GQ in July 2021. “And an even better one in two, and an even greater one in five, and it’ll go from being, you know, a book of my life to becoming a chapter to a paragraph to a line to a word to a doodle.”
He added: “That’s an experience that you either learn from or make excuses about. You take some responsibility for it, hold yourself accountable for what you do, but then also endeavor to learn something beyond the obvious from it.”
Following the major life change, the Horrible Bosses star shifted his focus to his professional career amid his show Ted Lasso‘s worldwide success. As the hit show continued to win awards, Sudeikis used the opportunity to praise his kids publicly.
The writer, who developed and starred in Ted Lasso as the lead, mentioned his children at the Golden Globes, the Emmys and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. In February 2021, Sudeikis joked about how Otis and Daisy would respond after he won his first Golden Globe.
“Their reaction is