“I’ve spent many hours with them, like in pajamas just hanging out in their house with their nine hundred children and dogs and it is just as normal as can be,” Hugh—who shares son Oscar, 23, and daughter Ava, 19, with ex Deborra-lee Furness—told Vogue in August of Ryan and Blake. “And Blake will be baking and cooking and saying, ‘Let’s make pizza,’ and then the next thing you turn around, and there she is, this incredible star. It’s…it’s astonishing to me.”
But fatherhood wasn’t always so simple for Ryan, whose own father passed away nearly 10 years ago after a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s Disease. While the IF actor’s relationship with his father, James Chester Reynolds, wasn’t perfect, he’s been able to use their experiences as learning opportunities for his own parenting style.
