OWEN’S TEARS OVER SINGLE PARENT ROLE
CLIVE OWEN broke down in tears when he read the script for his latest rol= e as a single dad - because the thought of his own children losing their = mother devastated him.
The Brit actor stars in The Boys are Back, playing a sports writer forc= ed to raise his child alone after his wife dies.
But Owen struggled with the role, as it made him lament on how his youn= g daughters, Hannah and Eve, would cope without a parent.
He says, "I found it very upsetting when I read it. Every time I read t= he script I cried. In some scenes I was turning to a young boy and saying= , ‘Your mother might not be around for much longer.’ "I find this a devastating idea as a parent of two girls.The idea of th= at conversation upsets me, so I found it moving."
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