Jeff Goldblum doesn’t want his children to rely on his estimated $40 million fortune once they become adults
The Jurassic Park star, 71, hopes his sons Charlie, eight, and six, five, will be able to earn their own living – without depending on his bank account.
During an appearance on the Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi podcast, Goldblum said he wanted his kids to be able to find their own jobs.
‘Now that I’m raising kids, I’m no conventionalist, but I know the system that we’re in, and I think sooner than later, I don’t want to scare them, they should figure out… but hey, you know, you’ve got to row your own boat,’ Goldblum, who shares his children with wife Emilie Livingston, explained.
‘It’s an important thing to teach kids,’ Bozzi said, before Goldblum added: ‘I’m not going to do it for you. And you’re not going to want me to do it for you.’
‘You’ve got to figure out how to find out what’s wanted and needed and where that intersects with your love and passion and what you can do. And even it if doesn’t, you might have to do that anyway,’ he said.
Indeed, Goldblum was able to build a career doing what he loves – and it’s his hope his children are able to do the same.
Goldblum described how he dreamed of being actor before he found fame.
‘I would write on the steamy glass shower door every morning, when I was taking a shower before school, “Please God let me be an actor.” And then it was a secret, I didn’t even tell my parents and I’d wipe it off before I left,’ he told Bozzi.
‘So nobody would know. It was like secret fries,’ he said.
