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Sterling K. Brown recalled a time when his eldest son, Andrew, was called the N-word during a soccer game<\/p>\n
The actor said that his son chose not to escalate the situation and instead navigated the tense moment in an \u201cevolved\u201d way<\/p>\n
The father of two also said that being a dad is \u201cthe most important job that I have in my life right now\u201d<\/p>\n
Sterling K. Brown is opening up about when his son was called the\u00a0N-word and how the teen navigated the tense situation.
\nBrown, 49, recalled the incident while recently speaking at a roundtable for the second season of his Hulu show Paradise.
\nDuring the conversation, the three-time Emmy winner reflected on how he differs from his sons, Amar\u00e9, 9, and Andrew, 14, noting that he has an \u201cintense\u201d part of himself that the boys don\u2019t seem to share.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAnd it’s interesting,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI look at my children now \u2014\u00a0my children have never been in a fight. The 14-year-old or the 9-year-old,\u201d he said
\nHe continued, \u201cMy 14-year-old was in a soccer game where a young boy spat on him, and he saw the spit and he walks up to the ref and he goes, \u2018Ref, this dude just spat on me.\u2019 And the ref was like, \u2018I didn’t see it, so I can’t do anything about it.\u2019 \u201c
\n\u201cThen, afterwards, the young man came up to him and called him the N-word and just kind of kept it going. And my son didn’t tell me until after the game, and I was like, \u2018Yo, man, how come we didn’t beat his ass?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018Because that wouldn’t have solved anything. He already did what he was going to do. The ref didn’t respond to it or whatnot. So I didn’t want to make you any more upset, which is why I didn’t tell you until after the game.\u2019 \u201c
\n\u201cSo he’s a more evolved person than me. I would’ve beat his ass!,\u201d Brown concluded.
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\nAt another point in the conversation, the This Is Us star reflected on how his sons shape his relationship with his work, calling them \u201cthe most important people in my life.\u201d
\n\u201cAnd to anybody who’s been a parent or […] has young children \u2014 to see how much they change, especially when they’re young, as they accrue new skills and learn new words and stuff; it is the most magical thing to be in the presence of,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cAnd so I can tell you \u2014 truly, truly, between doing season one [of Paradise] and then the hiatus where I went, I did Voltron in Australia. I went and did a movie in France and I did a movie in Louisiana and they were all wonderful experiences, but I had to FaceTime [my kids], and I didn’t get a chance to tuck [them] in and finish reading book seven of Harry Potter to my youngest or whatever it was,\u201d he said.
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\nHe added, \u201cBeing a father is the most important job that I have in my life right now. And so for the next nine years, if I can keep working in L.A. and be like the one dude who figured it out, I would be very, very excited about that, [because] I don’t want to miss too much of their growing up.\u201d
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\nBrown also said that he takes \u201cgreat delight\u201d in seeing his children grow and evolve as people \u2014 and that he especially feels proud when he sees his teen, Andrew, exhibit more maturity and compassion than he had at the same age.
\n\u201c[That’s all you can do is try to do a little bit better than what your parents did for you. And hopefully he’s able to do a little bit better as well,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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