Former Disney Channel star David Henrie has set out certain guidelines for his acting career so that he stays faithful to his marriage to wife Maria Cahill.
“My general rules are, like, if I’m acting in something, as long as I’m not directly doing anything that violates my conscience or is against my morals, then I’ll do it,” Henrie, 37, said on the Wednesday, November 11, episode of the “Unplanned” podcast. “If I have to kill someone, like, I’m not really killing someone, you know? It’s, like, you can fake that.”
He continued, “For me, I draw the line if it’s anything that would actually violate our relationship as a married couple.”
Henrie has since set concrete boundaries revolving around onscreen nudity and romantic scenes.
“He’s not kissing anybody,” Cahill, 35, quipped. “I feel like he cares more than I care. I’m like,
‘I so trust him. I literally don’t care.’ He’s like, ‘I will not kiss.’”
Cahill, who even helped cast Mimi Gianopulos as Henrie’s wife in Disney Channel’s Wizards Beyond Waverly Place reboot, has been married to the actor since 2017.
“I don’t care how much you’re thinking of whatever … to distract yourself. You’re really doing that. There’s no faking it,” Henrie acknowledged of his mindset. “And I don’t know, I would just feel weird. I would feel very weird, [and] it would shake me, so yeah, not going to do it.”
Long before Henrie’s wedding to Cahill, he did share a smooch with a teen love interest on the OG Wizards series.
“My kids saw it,” Cahill said, referring to the couple’s four children. “They were like, ‘You have another wife?’ Like, they were so upset. They were thrown.”
Since then, their little ones will “randomly bring it up” that their “papa kissed another woman.”
“They’ll go up to [Maria] and be like, ‘Papa has a girlfriend.’ It’s so funny,” he noted, further detailing what it’s like raising a family in the limelight. “I came out on the other side positively because I had really good parents, who didn’t need me to make money, didn’t need me to support the family, didn’t need me to do anything. They treated it like you’d support a kid in a sport, so they always made it fun for me.”
Henrie hopes to do the same for his own children should they follow in his footsteps.
“I would love my kids to be performers. I’d love for them to be in the performing arts,” he stated. “They dance, they do ballet, they do Irish dance, we do plays, but I don’t want them to do the grind of a child actor. I don’t want them to have to go through that intense life. I don’t want that.”
