Chris credited his change in priorities to an eye-opening moment he experienced while filming his National Geographic docu-series Limitless.
“Doing an episode on death and facing your own mortality made me go, ‘Oh God, I’m not ready to go yet,'” he told Vanity Fair in a November 2022.” And then you start talking about kids and family and going, ‘Oh my God, they’re getting older, they’re growing up and I keep slapping another movie on top of another movie.’ Before you know it, they’re 18 and they’ve moved out of house, and I missed the window.”
Chris added that the realization “really triggered something in me to want to take some time off.”
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