January 14, 2025
David Schwimmer feels he has a lot in common with his Goosebumps: The Vanishing character.
The 58-year-old actor was speaking to The Hollywood Reporter recently about his role in a new Disney+ series Goosebumps: The Vanishing where he drew some interesting comparisons between himself and the new onscreen character.
"I've not been able to play a dad of a teenager, which I am now in real life," said Schwimmer, who shares daughter Cleo, 13, with ex-wife Zoe Buckman.
"So that part of me was also really excited. It's another level of meaningful at this stage."
The Friends star doesn't post his teen daughter online so much but he does get candid about her in interviews.
“I obviously make breakfast for her every day, or dinner with her. So I cook a bit, but I’m not a brilliant cooker,” he said during an appearance on the Table Manners podcast in 2020.
However, Schwimmer also noted that her breakfast often consists of porridge or toast with almond butter and blueberries.
The dad-of-one also spoke of how the teenager has been a "self-declared vegetarian" since a very young age.
“When she was four or five, she just said ‘I’m a vegetarian,'" he said. "I think she had been somewhere with her mum, where they were talking about vegetarianism and animal rights and I think it just hit her."