Steven Spielberg and granddaughter Eve.Photo:FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty
Steven Spielbergis winning the award for best grandpa of the year.
The two posed for a few photos together before moving along the red carpet and entering the venue.
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Steven Spielberg and Eve Gavigan.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Spielberg is a dad of seven and a granddad of six. The filmmaker became a father with the birth of his son Max, 38, whom he shares with his ex-wife Amy Irving. When Spielberg married actress Kate Capshaw in 1991, he became a father to her daughter Jessica, 47, and son Theo, 35. Spielberg and Capshaw went on to have four children together — Sasha, 33, Sawyer, 32, Mikaela, 28, and Destry, 27.
He is granddad to Jessica’s four kids with husband Christopher Gavigan — Luke, 16, Eve, Poppy and Josephine.
While he is now the proud patriarch of his family, Spielberg didn’t always want kids. It was actually his time working on his filmE.T.that prompted him to change his mind.
Steven Spielberg and family.Craig Barritt/Getty
“I didn’t want to have kids because it was not a kind of equation that made sense for me as I went from movie to movie to movie, script to script,” Spielberg toldVarietyat a celebration for the iconic film’s40th anniversary.
“It never occurred to me till halfway throughE.T.: I was a parent on that film. I was literally feeling like I was very protective of Henry [Thomas] and Mike [McNaughton] and my whole cast, and especiallyDrew [Barrymore], who was only 6 years old.”
“And I started thinking, ‘Well, maybe this could be my real life someday.’ It was the first time that it occurred to me that maybe I could be a dad. And maybe in a way, a director is a dad, or a mom … I really felt that that would be my big production,” said the dad of seven.
He added, “I have seven kids and six grandchildren, soE.T.worked for me very well.”
source: people.com
