If the life of a movie star is
considered as a film, certainly it is a comedy for family. Edward Burns is a 44-year-old
father with kid-like character. He owns a life full of dreams in an animated
city like New York with a super model wife – Christy Turlington – and two
lovely children – 8-year-old Grace and 6-year-old Finn, but for him, these
things are not enough.
‘Christy and I both have our
own success in our careers: We try to prevent our work affecting our children.’
Your role in the new film ‘Man on a Ledge’ is a negotiation expert,
so have you ever felt you are negotiate with your children?
It happens almost
everyday. For example, yesterday, Grace had homework but she was eager to choose
clothes for the photo shooting session of the gymnastic team at her school. So,
I had to remind her, ‘Only when you finish your homework are you allowed to go
the photo shooting session.’
At current, you play three roles at the same
time – script-writer,
actor, and director – in all three movies - She's the One, Sidewalks of
New York, and Newlyweds. So, does your wife Christy criticize your work?
Certainly, she does. She
has been reading my scripts for ten years. When starting my career, I was
criticized that the female characters about whom I wrote were not as real as
the male ones. Therefore, I told my wife to support me about female characters’
dialogues, and she is always ready to help me.
Does
your wife’s fashion style affect you much?
In fact, it does not have a great
impact on me as you think. My daily clothes are still jeans and Nike shoes. She is usually the one to help our children
choose clothes in the morning while I am making breakfast with the Swedish pancake
of my great-grandmother. It is Grace and Finn’s favorite food.
Do your children know that their parents are a powerful couple of Hollywood?
Finn almost is not aware
of our work. He only knows that we often go on business trip and is a bit sad
if we have to go out in more than one or two days. Grace starts to concern
about performance, but now she is giving preference to the two hobbies – horse
racing and aerobics.
What
has made you most satisfied after you have had children?
It is the happy moment
when we enter the house. Though I have just been away from home for three to
five minutes, our children burst out to the lobby and hug us. This makes my
heart full of happiness and I feel hurt when I have to be far from them.
How can you arrange your work and the responsibility of a father?
One of my proudest things
was that last autumn Christy was taking part in a marathon event
at New York while Grace, Finn, and I were going around the city together
by the subway, wearing the manual jewelries made the
night before. On that day, I felt more exhausted than Christy.
You
both have a strong attachment to your relatives, so how do you emphasize the
importance of a family?
We always spend one month for a
holiday at the beach with our relatives each summer. Our children love their
cousins so much. Therefore, there is no need to say, but you can know that we
give a special preference to our family.
Related things
about Edward Burns
An overview on career
Ed is known as a movie
star in the movie ‘Entourage and Will & Grace’. His first film, The
Brothers McMullen, produced in 1995, was written, directed, and played
the leading part by himself. It was invested $25,000 and gained great profit
- $10 million. In addition, he has also scripted, directed, and played the
leading role in other nine movies in the field of social psychology and love.
Free time
‘I am just like Pied
Piper playing with Grace and Finn. We often play basketball, soccer, and
Wiffle ball (a kind of baseball), or hunt treasure. We also often play my
favorite games at my young age such as red light, green light.
The happiest period of time
‘Dating with my wife
Christy with a high-glass bottle of wine and a romantic conversation.’
Favorite saying
‘I like the saying of
Satchel Paige – a baseball player – ‘I have never considered it as a job, I
just want to play baseball with pleasure’. That is the feelings when I make
my favorite movies.’
