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Four and a half.
What's that like? Does he make you watch SpongeBob?
He's past that. He's into very hyper Japanese cartoons and computer things – and chess, actually. He's flipping me out because he's playing chess.
How has having a child changed your life?
What hasn't it changed? Look, I was 50 when I had him. Although I'd been living with a stepdaughter for some time. I think that I had romantic fantasies that while I was babysitting I'd be reading all the books that I hadn't had a chance to read. I still have yet to read any of those books.
What other projects do you have coming up?
Bee Season. (It's) an amazing book written by Myla Goldberg. It's an art film. As entertaining and kind of embracing as Shall We Dance? is, this other one is very dark and difficult.
What's the role?
I play a religion professor at Berkeley. This is a dysfunctional family, extremely dysfunctional, and no dancing. (But) I had to learn the violin, which is the hardest thing that I've ever done, and in the end it wasn't me (playing onscreen). I had these visions of me playing my own violin stuff, but no, I couldn't do it.
