Clive Owen Is a Disappearing Dad

Actor Clive Owen speaks onstage during a visit to the Apple Store Soho on March 17, 2009 in New York City. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Clive Owen (Getty Images)more pics »Clive Owen spends as much time as he can with his daughters Hannah and Eve, but he says they're still always upset by the irregularity of his work life. He said: “No matter how much time I spend at home, there’s always this thing underneath -- that there’s a possibility I might disappear again and do a movie. Whereas most fathers, even if they’re not around that much, there’s a regular routine.”

Clive and his wife Sarah-Jane Fenton.
In his latest role, Clive portrays a widower, Joe Warr, who has to raise his two sons alone after his wife dies of cancer, but the 45-year-old insists his parenting style doesn’t match Joe’s. Referring to his character, Clive, who raises his children with wife Sarah-Jane Fenton, said: “It was a radical approach. They were thrown in this awful situation and he has to come up with a way to get through it. But I’m not at all as crazy and loose as that. Although I think there is an element of that to most fathers."

He continued, "I’d say we sometimes are too structured in the way that we do things and that it is important to keep loose and go with the flow a bit with children.”

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