Jack Black he didn’t expect how much fatherhood would change him. “What surprised me was how worried I was,” he told People magazine in an interview, recalling that when his first son was born he realized that “for the rest of my life I would just want the best for him.”

“You spend so much time and energy just thinking about it. Also, it’s harder than you think when you first start out. Because you’re always wondering, “Am I doing this right? I don’t know if I’m doing the right parenting thing.” But you do the best you can and hope for the best,” he added.

At the end of the day, though, “I just want them to be happy,” the actor said of his two sons. “I mean, the hard part is being a celebrity kid, it’s not easy. It has some special pressures that are not normal childhood things.”

Black, who has been married to musician Tanya Haden for 17 years and has two sons Tommy and Sammy, explains that parenthood “makes you see the world in a different way”.

“When you see it as a parent, it adds a layer of unexpected adulthood. Because I thought I was never going to have children. Because I’m still a child. So [όταν έχεις παιδιά] it forces you to say, “Okay. Look, let’s be in charge now. Let’s figure out the right thing to do in all these different situations.” Things you never even paid attention to before,” he added.