He said that his daughters don’t own phones or iPads, but they occasionally “mess around” with his devices or their mother’s. In a previous interview with Variety, the actor spoke about the issue of hyperconnectivity, confessing, “I’ve had a certain curiosity and sort of a questioning of my dependency on this stuff for a long time,” adding that he likes to “delete [social media] every once in awhile. When I’m working, I’ll delete it. But it’s hard. You can’t just get rid of it. It’s infiltrated our lives.” He said that he owns an iPhone 12, relishing that “It’s very old. It’s very broken. No case. I like how this one works so poorly. It keeps me off of it.”
Even when it comes to his daughters, the goal has always been to create some distance between them and social media, he said. “Obviously they don’t know about any of that stuff now, but I want to keep them away from it as long as we can. Even if they do get into it, they can at least remember a time when it wasn’t a part of their lives. I have a feeling and a hope that there is going to be a bit of a backslide. There’s something happening now with teenagers, where it is cooler to have less followers, to not post a lot, to not be so connected. If there’s enough of a revolution of that with young people that get into their teens and 20s, who knows?”
In the meantime, he shared a hack that he uses to encourage himself to disconnect: Using a European eSIM in the United States. That way, he said, “I’m not able to use internet on my phone unless I’m on Wi-Fi. I actually can’t go on Instagram or Twitter or online unless I have Wi-Fi. So unless I’m home, I’m not gonna ask for Wi-Fi wherever I’m at, so I don’t use it as much.”