‘I was freaking out’: Henry Golding says birth of baby daughter after 16-hour labor was more stressful for him than his wife
He became a first-time father in late March with the arrival of baby daughter Lila.
And Crazy Rich Asians star Henry Golding confided to Ellen DeGeneres that watching his wife Liv Lo go through 16 hours of labor was extremely stressful.
‘It was definitely an eye-opening experience,’ he shared in an interview to air Wednesday.
New dad: He became a first-time father in March with the arrival of baby daughter Lila. And Henry Golding confided to Ellen DeGeneres his wife’s 16 hours of labor was extremely stressful
‘I think it was more stressful for me than it was for Liv, my wife. She was cruising it,’ Golding, 34, explained.
He added: ‘At the end of it, I was wrecked… I was freaking out.’
The Malaysian-born actor married his wife, a Taiwanese TV personality, in 2016 and the announced last November that there expecting a baby together.
New parents: ‘I think it was more stressful for me than it was for Liv, my wife. She was cruising it,’ Golding, 34, explained. ‘At the end of it, I was wrecked… I was freaking out’
Daddy’s little girl: The Crazy Rich Asians just celebrated his first Father’s Day since the arrival of his daughter and shared on Instagram he was missing her while he promotes his new movie
Challenge: Golding was on Ellen to talk about Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins and he spoke about the intense martial arts training he went through for the film, calling it ‘a trial by fire’
The actor is currently promoting his new movie Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins and stopped by The Ellen DeGeneres Show for a chat about it.
‘It restarts the G.I. Joe universe and we concentrate on one of the most iconic characters which is Snake Eyes,’ he said.
‘And we start right at the beginning – his origin, who he is as a person, his mistakes, his lessons, his goals and it pretty much opens the window for exploring the rest of the characters that we all know and love.’
For the action movie, Golding had to hone his martial arts skills and he told Ellen that ‘the training was intense.’
‘It was a lot of sword work… Four hours a day of choreography and an hour and a half of training a day for two months,’ he went on. ‘It was a real trial by fire but the action sequences are out of this world.’
Snake Eyes is set to open in movie theatres on July 23.
Coming soon: Snake Eyes is set to open in movie theatres on July 23