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Following his Grey's Anatomy exit, Jesse Williams exclusively shared with E! News the "full circle" infinitesimal helium had erstwhile helium took his 2 kids to the movie theater. Take a look.
Jesse Williams Opens Up About Post-Grey's Anatomy Focus
Jesse Williams isn't a regular dad—he's a chill dad.
At least, that's what his kids think aft watching 1 of his movies, according to the Grey's Anatomy alum. While exclusively chatting with E! News about his concern with Kidde's Cause for Alarm campaign, Williams shared that son Maceo, 7, and daughter Sadie, 8, were perfectly floored erstwhile they saw him successful his recently-released superhero flick, Secret Headquarters.
"It was precise chill for them to beryllium capable to really spot the result of this happening that dada went disconnected and did for 2 months successful a antithetic state," helium shared "To ticker that travel afloat ellipse is bully for the kids. They haven't been that excited since I did Sesame Street!"
And his kids were a large crushed arsenic to wherefore Williams took connected the role. After all, what Dr. Jackson Avery does inside Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital isn't exactly family-friendly.
"It's got big jokes and [I] get to enactment with Owen Wilson and Michael Peña...but the cardinal characters are a clump of kids," Williams said of the film. "My kids were truthful excited to beryllium capable to spell and ticker that."
In fact, galore of Williams' projects deed adjacent to home. He told E! News that it was a nary brainer to beryllium portion of Kidde's Cause for Alarm campaign—which aims to support communities who are astatine a higher hazard of fire-related incidents by addressing gaps successful acquisition and entree to occurrence information resources—because his brother is simply a full-time firefighter who is "risking his beingness connected the regular."
"He's got 2 small kids arsenic well," Williams noted. "Black and brownish folks are doubly arsenic much apt arsenic the ascendant civilization to suffer their beingness oregon beryllium earnestly injured successful fire, truthful we tin bash thing astir these things."
This means everything from simply ensuring that determination are moving occurrence alarms successful your location to teaching the caller procreation astir occurrence safety.
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"As a genitor of young kids, you effort to beryllium vigilant astir your kids' safety, making definite kids cognize the preventable things successful life," helium said. "You spell done these preventative measures, you marque definite you're doing everything you tin to slumber comfortably astatine night, that you've you're keeping everybody safe."
Williams added, "It makes a satellite of difference."
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