He said of his Taylor: \u201cHe\u2019s such a talent. He\u2019s a power lifter and he really takes good care of himself. We\u2019re like, \u2018Dude, you have to be soft and cuddly for this movie\u2019. And he totally bought in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a great athlete. He\u2019s surprisingly adept at action \u2013 way better than I was. I pulled a groin just trying to sprint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Safe Haven star, who has Axl, 12, with ex-wife Fergie, and Shepherd, 20 months, with spouse Audra Mari, is thrilled he chose to build a house in Minnesota almost two decades ago because it means his kids can grow up away from Hollywood and enjoy a childhood like his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, 16, 17, years ago, when I built this place, it was weirdly me almost reliving my youth, in a way. Because I grew up out in the woods in North Dakota, and for me to now be able to pass that on to my kids out there is great,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Duhamel said Los Angeles is \u201cfantastic\u201d but he thinks his kids will ultimately benefit from growing up in a different setting.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also nice to get them out in the woods and get dirty and learn a few things that I learned growing up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Duhamel revealed he quit life in Los Angeles because he wanted to \u201cget back to the basics\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to People, Josh said: \u201cI make movies and TV shows, and I love it, I truly do love it, but I had this calling to go and really do things with my hands again \u2013 fix things, make things and just do the basic things that we take for granted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really more of a guy who wants to stay true to my roots, get back to the basics, hone whatever basic skills I need in this world of massive technology, to do the basic things to provide for my family. That\u2019s really what it\u2019s about for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said of his Taylor: \u201cHe\u2019s such a talent. He\u2019s a power lifter and he really takes good…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27341,3376,27340,27339,156,293,1433,111,139,69,1858,1517,6290,27342,21732],"class_list":["post-27537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-27341","tag-actor","tag-cataract","tag-duhamel","tag-entertainment","tag-his","tag-josh","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-restored","tag-reveals","tag-surgery","tag-undergone","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}