Pete Davidson explains how fatherhood has affected his acting
Pete Davidson thinks becoming a father helped his performance in How to Rob a Bank because he had real experience to draw on.
Pete Davidson thinks becoming a father helped his performance in How to Rob a Bank.
The former Saturday Night Live star and ex-girlfriend Elsie Hewitt welcomed daughter Scottie into the world in December 2025, and the change in his personal circumstances meant playing a dad in his new movie made things "very emotional and real" for the 32-year-old comic.
He told Extra: “I found out that I was going to become a girl dad the week we started and I have a daughter in How to Rob a Bank and it made it, you know, very emotional and real.
“I was able to put myself in a place that, you know, I always heard about actors using stuff from their lives and stuff like that and that was the first time I was able to understand what the hell they were talking about.”
Making the movie also brought Pete a new friendship because he thinks "phenomenal" co-star Nicholas Hoult is a "really special" person.
He gushed: “It’s very easy to become friends with Nick Hoult. He is just one of the best guys I’ve ever met.
“He’s not only a phenomenal actor, but he's a phenomenal father and just like a great friend to have as busy as he is. He's keeps up with me and that’s really cool.
“And there’s not enough nice things I could say about him. He’s a really special guy.”
Earlier this week, Pete let slip that Nicholas and his wife Bryana Holly had twins last year.
Promoting their movie How to Rob a Bank, Pete told Entertainment Tonight: "Nicholas is a 'great dad, father of four. Four under what, seven? Which is nuts.'"
Nicholas smiled and nodded as he said: "Yeah, yeah."
Pete then referenced the Skins actor's twins while discussing how Elsie was pregnant at the same time Nicholas - who also has a seven-year-old son and a second child, who was born in 2022 - was flying home for weekends to spend time with his newborns.
Pete said: “Elsie was pregnant while we were filming and [Nicholas] just had his twins.
“He would fly back every weekend to go see his family, and that was very inspiring and awesome.”
There had been speculation about Nicholas and Bryana's growing family earlier this year when the 33-year-old model hit back at critics for body-shaming her over her plunging dress at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in March.
Hitting out at "the comments around my chest", she explained her appearance was "the product of a breastfeeding mother who hasn’t fed her babies in hours."
She added: "If you know then you know. You are not owed an explanation."
