Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale have given fans a glimpse of what their life is really like at home raising two young sons and revealed how they try to ‘resolve conflict’ between their boys, Rocco and Rafael.
During an appearance on The View on Tuesday, Bobby, 54, admitted that it can be a ‘juggle’ because their kids were born just ’20 months apart,’ and despite rarely speaking about his personal life, he did divulge that he and Rose, 44, are trying their best to help their sons ‘regulate’ their emotions.
When host Sara Haines asked which one of them is the disciplinarian, Rose quickly replied: ‘We rotate, it’s a rotation,’ before adding: ‘I mean, like any parent you’re always navigating every day with your kids and trying to understand where they’re at and help them regulate and find out what inspires them.’
Bobby then said: ‘I have three sons. Rose and I have two sons together and I have an almost 30-year-old son, so I have a lot of experience looking into these guys’ eyes. It’s funny, Rose just used the word “regulate” because that’s a popular word right now in our house, trying to figure out how to get them to regulate… it’s a lot of, “eyes here, eyes here please.”‘
The Watcher actor, who was grilled about his ‘imminent wedding’ to Rose during an appearance on Today earlier this week, continued: ‘It’s just a juggle. Our kids are 20 months apart, so it’s constantly dealing with competition and one will take one for a walk and the other one takes the other one to the other room and tries to conflict resolve that way.
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale made rare comments about their two sons during an appearance on The View on Tuesday
Bobby shared this snap of him and his two boys, Rocco and Rafael, on Instagram in May 2020
‘We just try to stay on the same page as much as you can and then talk about it, like probably most people do at the end of the night,’ Bobby continued.
‘You’re sitting there and putting your cream on your elbows, “hey, what about that thing that happened”… that’s me by the way!’ he laughed as he imitated moisturizing his elbows before adding: ‘And you do the recap at the end of the night.’
Rose and Bobby, who welcomed their sons in February 2016 and November 2017, are notoriously private about their family life but they did reference their boys in a December 2019 interview with Vanity Fair when they spoke about why they work together so often.
‘It starts out as a very pragmatic thing,’ Bobby said at the time. ‘You have the kids, the kids are getting bigger, and you don’t want to spend the time apart.’
The duo, who already refer to each other as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ have just collaborated yet again and play a divorced couple in the new movie Ezra, which also stars Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, and William A. Fitzgerald.
Referring to their latest film during his interview on Today on Monday, Bobby revealed: ‘The nice thing about this is like we shot it here in New York and New Jersey, and the kids know where we are at all times when we’re working together so that’s nice.
‘Our life is really just… aside from raising the kids, it’s just scheduling, everything is scheduling. And so we try our best to really stay together, we always say, “We’ve got to keep the band together,” so we take the kids with us wherever we go and we try and work here as much as we can.
‘So whenever there is an opportunity to work together, we know that we’re gonna have the kids close by and it sort of all revolves around that. But it’s always a good time working with Rose, she makes me laugh like no one else.’
Rose looked on as Bobby explained how they try to ‘resolve conflict’ between their two sons
The Watcher actor posted this adorable snap of him and his son, Rocco, on Instagram in February 2020
Bobby is also dad to his 29-year-old son Jake, whom he shares with his ex-wife Jenny Lumet
The happy couple have been together since 2012, and already call each other ‘husband’ and ‘wife’
However, the conversation took an awkward turn when Today host Craig Melvin attempted to probe Bobby about whether or not he and Rose would ever get married.
Craig said: ‘I read that she gave an interview last year where she said, “The wedding is imminent, it’s going to happen…,”‘ to which Bobby replied: ‘She said that? I didn’t see that interview.’
‘Do you want me to read it to you?’ Craig replied as Bobby fired back: ‘Nah, that’s alright!’ before bursting out laughing and admitting: ‘We’re good,’ as he shrugged his shoulders and glanced around the studio looking rather uncomfortable before adding: ‘Yeah, sure.’
Craig clearly took the hint and said: ‘Okay, alright,’ before quickly wrapping up the interview and telling Bobby: ‘Film looks good, again. Bobby Cannavale, always a pleasure.’
