Chris credited his change in priorities to an eye-opening moment he experienced while filming his National Geographic docu-series Limitless.
“Doing an episode on death and facing your own mortality made me go, ‘Oh God, I’m not ready to go yet,'” he told Vanity Fair in a November 2022.” And then you start talking about kids and family and going, ‘Oh my God, they’re getting older, they’re growing up and I keep slapping another movie on top of another movie.’ Before you know it, they’re 18 and they’ve moved out of house, and I missed the window.”
Chris added that the realization “really triggered something in me to want to take some time off.”
Keep reading to relive Chris and Elsa’s sweetest moments with their kids ahead of his Met Gala debut.
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