Hollywood A-lister Chris O’Dowd has opened up about wanting to move back to Ireland with wife Dawn and their kids - saying he thinks it's "wild" his children have to learn gun drills in schools in the US.
The Bridesmaids star – who currently stars in Netflix’s animation My Father’s Dragon – moved to West Hollywood with Dawn O’Porter back in 2013.
The couple have two kids together – but Chris admitted he hopes to move back home to Ireland with his family some day.
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“I would like that. I can’t imagine it in the next year or two, but I would imagine in the long term, I would like to settle there. It’s so hard to know what’s going on. The world is just so mad at the moment, we’ve got midterms and stuff going on over here and it is just like watching the news is like going through an earthquake….it's extraordinary.”
Chris – who will star alongside Jason Momoa in Slumberland on Netflix - said he thinks it’s “wild” that kids have to learn about gun drills at high school – admitting he thinks he’ll move home before they have to go to high school over there.
“100 per cent. I can’t imagine that we’ll put the kids in secondary school here. I’d say we’ll be back in Europe before then.
“It’s wild, isn’t it? It’s not going to get any better anytime soon,” he added.
It comes in the wake of Claudine Keane revealing her kids – Robert and Hudson - had to do gun drills at school from when they were four years of age.
She and her husband Robbie lived there for five years with their two young boys while the former Ireland soccer captain played for LA Galaxy.
“It wasn’t that I was scared but they had to do the gun drills and everything in school when they were four years of age,” she said back in June.
“It’s quite overwhelming at that age. Instead of having a fire drill, they were having a gun drill.
“It’s not something you should have to do that young, but the reality is, you have to (do it) over there.
“They obviously clearly have an issue and they have to do something about it. But I did say it before when I lived there with my kids. I thought it was crazy,” she added at the time.
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