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\n Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos; Getty Images\/Netflix\/Disney\n <\/p>\n

Utkarsh Ambudkar is a man in demand. Not just on TV \u2014 though he is there, with his roles on hit shows like Never Have I Ever and Running Point \u2014 but in real life, where he\u2019s a father of three<\/a>. While chatting for this interview, we were interrupted twice by his kids: first by his 10-year-old daughter, who wanted to talk about her run for school president, and second by his toddler, who wanted to get some cuddles in before Ambudkar jets back off to Montreal to film the latest season of his CBS series, Ghosts.<\/p>\n

Family-friendly fare like Ghosts calls to Ambudkar, particularly now that he\u2019s a father to three. He\u2019s about to play a villain in the new season of Disney\u2019s SuperKitties alongside Ginnifer Goodwin, and he says one of the reasons Ghosts has made it to its fifth (and already green-lit sixth!<\/a>) season is because it\u2019s so universally accessible. \u201cIt\u2019s actually the one show that my 10-year-old and wife make everyone in the family watch together, too, which is a little embarrassing,\u201d he adds. \u201cLike, it has to be the one I\u2019m on?\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what else Ambudkar watches and listens to with his family when he\u2019s not onscreen.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Netflix\n <\/p>\n

My 5-year-old went through a Transformers phase, but then he found this show Kipo on Netflix, and that\u2019s his main bag. I\u2019m not really sure what it\u2019s about. I know that there are some burrows and there\u2019s a baddie who gave into the darkness, and I think there\u2019s a big ol\u2019 leopard or tiger, but don\u2019t quote me on that.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Disney Channel\/Everett Collection\n <\/p>\n

My 10-year-old has been watching reruns of That\u2019s So Raven. I think she found it by watching other shows on Disney+, like High School Musical: The Musical or whatever, and then it must have said, \u201cIf you liked that, try this,\u201d and she did. She\u2019s been on that kick for a little while.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Disney\n <\/p>\n

I just started introducing my 2-year-old to a Disney show that I was on called Mira, Royal Detective. I\u2019m trying to get her into it, like, \u201cDoesn\u2019t this look fun?\u201d She can\u2019t really understand that I\u2019m in it, though \u2014 like, she can\u2019t compute that when she hears a voice attached to a cartoon mongoose that it\u2019s the same guy sitting next to her. I haven\u2019t really mentioned it, because I\u2019m not trying to break her brain.<\/p>\n

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Photo: 20th Century Fox \/Buena Vista Pictures\/ Courtesy Everett Collection\n <\/p>\n

We have family movie day every weekend. We\u2019ve watched Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, Three Ninjas, The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Short Circuit 1 and 2 \u2026 they\u2019ve pretty much seen it all.\u00a0It\u2019s all stuff we loved growing up, but we do have to talk about some of the content on a case-by-case basis. Like, all the movies are very fun for the 5- and 2-year old because they\u2019re so far removed from stuff, but telling my 10-year-old that the Indian guy in Short Circuit wasn\u2019t actually an Indian guy wasn\u2019t really a fun conversation, to be sure.<\/p>\n

I did a Disney movie called World\u2019s Best and my 5-year-old loves the music from that. He\u2019s been listening to that for a long time. Beyond that, though, he\u2019s a full-blown metalhead. Metallica\u2019s Master of Puppets. Rage Against the Machine. Judas Priest. He wants fully crazy heavy metal on all the time. My daughter listens to more Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan, but he just likes, as he calls it, \u201cangry music.\u201d<\/p>\n

I have no idea how he got into it, either. I tried playing him my style of music, which is old-school hip-hop, like Naughty by Nature, Tupac, and Biggie, and he was having none of it. He only wants music I\u2019ve never heard and never wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Netflix\n <\/p>\n

We went through a big Is It Cake?<\/a> phase in our house. Mikey Day does a great job of pretending that he\u2019s interested in whatever\u2019s going on there, too. I think watching season after season, you can tell that he\u2019s gotten more into it. Like season one, it was like, \u201cWhat am I doing here?\u201d but by season two, you can see he\u2019s fully invested.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Netflix\n <\/p>\n

The tried-and-true thing right now in our house is KPop Demon Hunters. I think we\u2019re sort of phasing out of it a bit, but not before it really hit a very potent peak. My kids found it on Netflix during a car ride back from somewhere, and when I saw my 5-year-old son watching it again later, I was like, \u201cWhat is this? I kind of like the animation and I like the music,\u201d and then I just got sucked in with him. Since then, I\u2019ve watched it probably 11 times, and as a family, we\u2019ve watched it a few more on top of that. We even went and saw it in the theater for the sing-along. I\u00a0don\u2019t even know how many hours we\u2019ve logged listening to the soundtrack. My 2-year-old only ever wants to hear \u201cSoda Pop,\u201d so we\u2019ve really been deep, deep in it.<\/p>\n


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