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Penn Badgleyis sending a message to all fellow parents of pandemic babies: it gets better.
Appearing onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonon Tuesday, theYoustar, 36, talked about life at home with his 2½-year-old son, whom he shares with wifeDomino Kirke.
“Well, he’s a pandemic kid, so anybody who has kids, it’s a joy,” he said carefully. “It’s an immense — I mean, it’s wild. It’s lovely.”
Starting to laugh, he added, “It’s great. It’s a challenge.”
“Shout out to all the parents. It gets better,” Badgley — who is also stepdad to Kirke’s 13-year-old son — laughed.
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Fallon asked if the toddler “knows his daddy plays a serial killer,” which prompted theGossip Girlalum to recall a recent incident with his son.
“And he was like, ‘Daddy!’ while I started to race around because the next thing he was going to see was something really crazy.”
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The actor rushed and was able to prevent things from getting worse, while Fallon joked he should have yelled at Siri to playBluey.
Speaking with PEOPLE ahead of theNetflix hit’s fourth seasonlast month, British actor Ed Speleers said that there were plenty of similarities for him and Badgley to connect over from the very beginning.
“I can’t speak for Penn himself, but I absolutely loved working with him from start to finish,” theDownton Abbeyalum told PEOPLE. “I feel that we got on very well. We were a similar age. We’re both dads. We connected a lot over that and music and football. And I feel that we pushed each other and we respected each other.”
Speleers shares a daughter, born in 2018, and son Jude, 8, with wife Asia Macey.
source: people.com
