- 7/15/2025
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00:00Security had to pick us up and throw us into the car.
00:03They followed the car and then like we'd reach out the sunroof, sign a couple autographs
00:08and then boom, it'd go again.
00:10For like 20 blocks, some people kept up, which was pretty crazy.
00:17I want to start by talking about Freakier Friday.
00:19What was it like reuniting with the cast, you know, more than 20 years later?
00:23And like, what was the energy on set like?
00:25It's so trippy, for lack of a better word.
00:29You know, there's like this twilight zone aspect that you left that dimension and you
00:35came back 23 years later, right?
00:37Honestly, parts of it felt like no time had passed at all.
00:41You get back in and there's nerves and all those things because you don't know what to
00:45expect, but everybody's lovely.
00:47You get there and the camaraderie is still right there and you're seeing the producers and
00:52people that you worked with 23 years ago and your cast and everybody and you've had entire
00:58lives in between.
00:59A lot of us have kids now and just so many differences, but yet here we are and everything
01:05just still feels the same and the chemistry is still the way it was and it's pretty incredible.
01:10It really is.
01:11You catch up, you sit there, you talk, you hug it out and every day when you leave, there's
01:16this moment of you just want to hug them a little bit longer because you don't know when
01:21the next time you're going to see them is.
01:22Did you ever think that like a sequel would be made?
01:25You know, you never know, right?
01:27You always hear ramblings about anything, right?
01:30You hear ramblings about so many different projects that you've worked on over the course
01:34of a 26 year career for me.
01:36And you never know what's going to actually come to fruition or not.
01:4015 years ago, I never would have assumed it.
01:42That's for sure.
01:44If you were to switch bodies, let's say like your teen self or I feel like your son, you
01:48know, years from now and he's a teenager, what would be the first thing that you do?
01:51And like, what would your day look like?
01:53Oh my gosh.
01:54I mean, for sure there would be ice cream in there.
01:57There's no question.
01:59Do you know those like American Ninja courses, American Ninja Warrior things?
02:02I know now if I go do that, I'm probably going to walk out with some type of like soft tissue
02:07injury and go, oh, why did I do that?
02:09There's a part of me that would want to like have the age, but still have the kids so that
02:14I could roughhouse with my kids, right?
02:17So that would be fun to be able to roughhouse to a degree where I know that there's no risk
02:22tossing them in the pool without getting, you know, a shoulder impingement and all that
02:27good stuff.
02:28There's a part of me that's like, you know, if you had kids younger, you could have done
02:31A, B, C, and D.
02:32But at the same time, it's this part, right?
02:34But if you can take this part with a younger body, oh gosh, the things that you could do
02:38things I would do a pickup ball game.
02:41No question right away.
02:43You and your daughter and your wife watched the sequel.
02:47What did she think of it?
02:48What did your daughter think of it?
02:49Oh my gosh.
02:50My daughter loved it so much.
02:51She loved it so much.
02:52She wants to go to the premiere.
02:53So we might make that happen.
02:55And they've never been to anything like that with me.
02:57So this might be their first kind of foray into that world.
03:00They love it.
03:01The kids really adapt.
03:02I remember we sat down and we watched the first one right before I started filming so
03:07I could say, hey guys, so this is what daddy's going to do.
03:09This is a story that I'm going to go tell.
03:11And I just remember them laughing so hard to the movie and saying, daddy, what are you
03:15doing this?
03:15Why are you doing that?
03:16Why are you doing this?
03:17And it's funny because as a grown up now, like I think we see things differently.
03:21So you're watching the movie through the older people's eyes and more adults.
03:24And then when you were younger, you watched it through the kids' lens.
03:28It's really interesting.
03:30You've opened up about being raised by a single dad and some of the hardships that your family
03:35endured along the way.
03:36What is the greatest lesson that your dad taught you?
03:40And how has he influenced you as a father?
03:43There's so many things about my dad that just makes him a superhero.
03:46I'm so grateful because I wouldn't be here.
03:48I wouldn't have the life that I have right now and I wouldn't have the life of the kids
03:52I have right now if it weren't for my dad.
03:54He gave us the opportunity to have a chance in life to go get a job, to live out your dreams.
04:01And I'm so grateful that I mean, my dad raising five kids on his own.
04:03We have three and it's Sarah and I, and that's hard enough.
04:07I can't imagine the amount of stress and emotional battles that he had to keep inside.
04:12And he's doing that on his own.
04:14Do your children want to follow in your and Sarah's footsteps in the acting business at all?
04:20My boy, probably not.
04:22I don't foresee it, but I could be way off.
04:25Who knows?
04:26I could be totally off base.
04:28Our middle daughter, yes.
04:29No question.
04:31She's already done.
04:32She did a play here in LA for Encanto.
04:34They did it in Studio City.
04:36They did Encanto.
04:37And then she did a run of Cats.
04:40And she loved it.
04:41Oh my God.
04:42She's just a natural.
04:42So she's got more talent in her pinky than I do in my entire being.
04:45She's unreal.
04:47She's next level.
04:48And I'm super proud of her.
04:49And she's going to crush it.
04:50So I think she will definitely.
04:52And the youngest, she's one.
04:53She's currently keeping us on our toes.
04:55That's what I know.
04:56You've talked about taking your kids on set and traveling with your whole family.
05:00That's not like break up the pack.
05:02What are some of the positives that you see in your relationship and family dynamics by doing that?
05:07So that's everything to us.
05:08When Sarah and I got together, we made like a little pact.
05:12We would keep the pack together no matter what.
05:15Like that's what we're going to do.
05:16Like if she wants to go to work, great.
05:17I'll take off and I'll travel and I'll watch the kids and vice versa.
05:21My son and daughter are best friends in the whole wide world.
05:23They're so unbelievable with the baby.
05:25Like I can't even tell you.
05:26They're so nurturing and caring.
05:29Their responsibilities are off the chart.
05:30Like they're so capable.
05:31We took a family vote actually.
05:32Like we weren't going to have a third child unless everyone was on board, including the kids.
05:37Our son wasn't on board for pretty much the entire time until then finally when he goes, you know, I'd like to have a baby in the family.
05:44And we're like, wow, look at that.
05:45And he's the best with her.
05:47But he's so good all the time with her.
05:49So they love each other so much.
05:52We homeschooled for the first eight years.
05:54So Sarah was unreal.
05:56So good.
05:57Like she had those kids, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, which is fantastic because it's like an hour and a half of your day.
06:01And then you're free to be a kid.
06:03Then we started school in Halifax when we're up shooting Sullivan's Crossing.
06:07You first kind of started out in this business as a teen heartthrob in some of the most iconic shows and movies.
06:13We've got Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, A Cinderella Story, Freaky Friday.
06:17Do you have any memorable praised fan moments from the early days?
06:22Plenty.
06:23Off the wall.
06:25Fan encounter.
06:27For sure.
06:29Most are probably not appropriate.
06:31I remember we had this crazy experience when we were in like the Tree Hill Peak.
06:37And it was like the first and only Beatles moment.
06:40That's what it felt like.
06:41We were coming out of TRL and it was the streets were just, just packed.
06:47There's so many people.
06:48And there was an influx and they all pushed through, getting banged around.
06:52We had cast members pushed into phone booths.
06:54Security had to pick us up, open their shoulders, and throw us into the car to get us out of there.
07:01It got pretty here.
07:03It got pretty touch and go.
07:04And I'll never forget that.
07:06That was definitely one of those core memories of like, okay, what just happened?
07:10And then as we drove off, they followed the car.
07:13And every time you did a stoplight, because you're in New York, you get a stoplight like
07:16every block, they'd catch up.
07:18And then like we'd reach out the sunroof, sign a couple autographs, and then boom, it'd
07:22go again.
07:23For like 20 blocks, some people kept up, which was pretty crazy.
07:27What are your thoughts on the One Tree Hill reboot that was announced last year?
07:31Would you be up for it?
07:32If they do the show, it needs to be something that pays respect and service to what it was.
07:39One Tree Hill is fine.
07:41But if you're going to make the show, it can't really be about these main characters anymore.
07:46They can be there as kind of pin holders, right?
07:49Like placeholders.
07:50But I think it's about the kids, because that show was always about the identity of teens
07:55going through high school and the trials and tribulations of what it's like.
07:58And there's so many issues now that we could deal with that could be really grounded and
08:04put out there that I feel like if you were going to do a show, it'd be like Tree Hill
08:07Generations, right?
08:08And it'd be this new generation.
08:09And you could have the kids.
08:11You could have, you know, Lucas and Payton's kids.
08:13You could have everyone's kids in the show where they're dealing with life and the struggles
08:19and social media, trying to overcome all that stuff.
08:21I mean, you got to step it up every time, right?
08:23You got to make it a little bit bigger.
08:25You got to elevate.
08:25So to me, I can't help.
08:28That I lay in bed and things just my mind just runs and then it sits in my brain for
08:33a while.
08:34And that's what probably every project I've ever done.
08:37This is how my brain functions.
08:38So, yeah, I probably have a plot for almost everything.
08:41I have a plot for Tree Hill Reboot, Cinderella Story, you name it.
08:44It's there just because that's the way the head works.
08:47Are there any other reboots or sequels that you would be open to doing?
08:51But I had mentioned a Cinderella Story reboot.
08:52And I think the way that I would do it would be as Love does in high school.
08:56It doesn't work out most of the time.
08:58You know, they've gone separate ways.
09:00They've had their lives.
09:01You know, maybe my character would be a teacher at this point, an English teacher back at the
09:05school.
09:06And maybe Hillary's tough character got married, had kids.
09:09It didn't work out.
09:10And now her daughter happens to be in my class.
09:12And you do like a dual Cinderella Story where she's going to go and she's a little shy
09:16and she doesn't fit in.
09:17And he nurtures that and then comes across with her and blah, blah, blah.
09:21There's an audience for a lot of those movies that were out there.
09:25And Cinderella Story is the test of time.
09:28Still today, young girls are watching it all the time.
09:30And every time it's on, I'm sitting there going, you know what?
09:33They did a great job with this film.
09:34Hats off to everybody.
09:35Yeah.
09:40Hats off to everybody.
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