Wyatt Russell is fully understanding what it means to be a parent.
While speaking at a recent press junket for his latest action film, Thunderbolts*, the 22 Jump Street alum, 38, opens up about how becoming a parent helped him relate more to his superstar parents, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. Russell, who shares two boys with his wife Meredith Hagner, says that he’s come to realize “what your parents feel about you” and their ultimate goal above all else.
“When you become a parent, you realize what your parents feel about you,” he tells PEOPLE. “And so you realize that all they want you to be is happy. They want you to live a fulfilled life, and that’s all you care about for your kids. And so I’m imagining that’s all my parents care about.”
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Meredith Hagner and Wyatt Russell
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After the Falcon and the Winter Soldier actor and his wife welcomed their first baby together, son Buddy Prine, in March 2021, the proud dad described fatherhood as simply “incredible” and “can’t be better.”
“It’s everything you didn’t know it was going to be,” he told Entertainment Tonight at the time. “I think everything you hope it’s gonna be is like a mish-mash in your mind before it really happens and then after it happens, whatever happened before is almost like [it never happened].”
Russell added, “Biologically, I think it does something to your brain where you just erase half your life before you’ve lived there. And now it’s about him and your family and trying to balance everything, and time, and new, amazing problems, amazing issues to have.”
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Wyatt Russell, Meredith Hagner and their son Boone
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In February 2024, the Night Swim actor and Hagner welcomed their second baby boy, Boone Joseph. Hagner shared the happy news of Boone’s arrival on Instagram alongside a photo of the newborn cradled on his mom’s chest as she kissed her husband.
“Boone Joseph Russell. Born Feb 13, a week before his due date. 8 pounds 3 oz of heaven. Hearts overflowing.❤️,” she captioned the post.
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