Overview
- At the New York premiere of Brunello: The Gracious Visionary at Lincoln Center, interviewer Isaac Hindin-Miller asked Joshua Jackson for the best advice his father gave him, and Jackson replied that his father abandoned his family before reframing the answer as a pledge to be a good, present dad.
- The exchange ran in Hindin-Miller’s event roundup, which also featured Martha Stewart, Shonda Rhimes, and Ryan Seacrest answering the same prompt.
- A clip of the moment has drawn more than 194,000 views on social media, with many users calling the question poorly researched and others praising Jackson’s composed response.
- Jackson has long spoken about his childhood, calling his parents’ split a traumatic experience in a 1998 Seattle Times interview and later saying in a 2025 podcast that he felt sympathy for his late father.
- He shares daughter Juno with ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith, and earlier custody issues were settled outside court, which he has contrasted with his emphasis on being present as a parent.