{"id":22215,"date":"2014-08-16T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T03:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=22215"},"modified":"2025-01-08T05:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T10:10:10","slug":"kellan-lutz-says-robin-williams-was-a-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/16\/kellan-lutz-says-robin-williams-was-a-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Kellan Lutz says Robin Williams was a role model"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22270\" style=\"width: 568px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kellan-Lutz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22270\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kellan-Lutz.jpg\" alt=\"'Twilight' and 'Expendables 3' star Kellan Lutz (Facebook photo)\" width=\"568\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kellan-Lutz.jpg 568w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Kellan-Lutz-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8216;Twilight&#8217; and &#8216;Expendables 3&#8217; star Kellan Lutz (Facebook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Twilight&#8221; star Kellan Lutz teared up when he talked about the death of Robin Williams, saying he saw the actor-comedian as a model for how to be a dad.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year old actor, who counts Williams&#8217; daughter Zelda as a friend, called Williams&#8217; death &#8220;crushing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love my dad, (but) kind of grew up with my mom and always wanted a father figure there, and I&#8217;m a huge fan of his movies and always just wished he was my dad,&#8221; an emotional Lutz said Thursday. He was promoting his latest film, &#8220;The Expendables 3.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz said he grew up watching Williams&#8217; movies, and always admired &#8220;the kind of person he portrayed,&#8221; so he thought, &#8220;It would be fun to have that kind of dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lutz hopes to carry that over when he starts his own family someday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be that dad to my kids.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy metformin online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/metformin.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/metformin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> I want to be the `Patch Adams,&#8217; the `Jumanji,&#8217; the `Mrs. Doubtfire,&#8217; `Good Will Hunting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy clomid online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/clomid.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/clomid.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>&#8216;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Williams died Monday in his Northern California home. Authorities said he committed suicide.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy xifaxan online <a href=\"https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/xifaxan.html\">https:\/\/azpsych.org\/general\/october\/html\/xifaxan.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>He was in the early stages of Parkinson&#8217;s disease at the time of his death, his wife said Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; &#8220;Twilight&#8221; star Kellan Lutz teared up when he talked about the death of Robin Williams, saying he &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","mauthors-john-carucci","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280656,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22215\/revisions\/280656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}