Overview
- At a New York premiere Tuesday, interviewer Isaac Hindin-Miller asked Joshua Jackson the routine prompt about his dad’s best advice, and Jackson laughed before answering, “My father abandoned my family,” then said the lesson he took was to be a good and present father.
- The exchange, filmed at Lincoln Center during the Brunello: The Gracious Visionary screening, came from a red-carpet roundup where several guests were asked the same question.
- The clip spread widely on X, where many viewers criticized the question as insensitive while others praised Jackson for a clear, grounded response.
- Jackson has long discussed the impact of his parents’ split, calling it “very traumatic” in a 1998 Seattle Times interview, and he later expressed sympathy for his late father on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast after becoming a parent.
- He shares daughter Juno with ex-wife Jodie Turner-Smith, and recent reports say the pair have worked to settle custody arrangements outside open court.