{"id":27788,"date":"2023-07-23T23:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/sigourney-weaver-overjoyed-non-binary-child-didnt-go-into-acting-they-teach-and-are-exited-about-ai\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T23:01:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T23:01:53","slug":"sigourney-weaver-overjoyed-non-binary-child-didnt-go-into-acting-they-teach-and-are-exited-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/23\/sigourney-weaver-overjoyed-non-binary-child-didnt-go-into-acting-they-teach-and-are-exited-about-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigourney Weaver overjoyed non-binary child didn&apos;t go into acting: &apos;They teach and are exited about AI!&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-07-24\" datetime=\"1690153313\" pubdate=\"\">24 July 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/sigourney-weaver\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,sigourney-weaver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sigourney Weaver<\/a> is overjoyed her non-binary child didn\u2019t go into acting \u2013 and is instead \u201cexcited\u201d about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Sigourney Weaver is overjoyed her non-binary child didn\u2019t go into acting \u2013 and is instead \u2018excited\u2019 about the possibilities of artificial intelligence<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Aliens\u2019 actress, 73, has Char, 33, with her theatre director husband Jim Simpson, 67 \u2013 who she married in 1984 \u2013 and first revealed how they identified in December. <\/p>\n<p>She has now told the Sunday Times about their only child and their career direction: \u201cThey are non-binary. They teach at Columbia, digital storytelling, bots, misinformation, they are someone who is excited about AI and not frightened about it. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were not at all interested in doing what I do. That made my husband and me very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sigourney said on the \u2018Smartless\u2019 podcast with hosts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/will-arnett\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,will-arnett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Arnett<\/a>, Sean Hayes and Jason Bateman about life with her husband: \u201cWe have a wonderful daughter who\u2019s now 32 \u2013 I don\u2019t know how, she still looks 12&#8230; in fact, they\u2019re non-binary and they teach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actress told The Guardian in 2010 being a mum is \u201cabsolutely the most important thing\u201d in her life. <\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cMy family comes first and I\u2019m so grateful to them that they let me go off and make films. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBut, you know, I find it very difficult to leave them. I hate it. I have had therapy and found it helpful in dealing with the guilt I\u2019ve felt about leaving them. <\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cGoing to New Zealand to make \u2018Avatar\u2019 when my (child) was applying to colleges almost killed me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\nShe said she \u201cwould have loved\u201d to have expanded her family further, but added \u201cthere are no regrets now because I feel so fortunate that I have one \u2013 I didn\u2019t get married (until) I was 34\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\nSigourney added: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to have children right away. You get the hand you\u2019re dealt, and it took me a long time when I did want a second child, to just wake up and go, \u2018Why aren\u2019t I enjoying the child I have?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sigourney-weaver-overjoyed-non-binary-child-acting-teach-exited-1382487.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 July 2023 Sigourney Weaver is overjoyed her non-binary child didn\u2019t go into acting \u2013 and is instead \u201cexcited\u201d about the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Sigourney Weaver is overjoyed her non-binary child didn\u2019t go into acting \u2013 and is instead \u2018excited\u2019 about the possibilities of artificial intelligence The \u2018Aliens\u2019 actress, 73, has Char, 33, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2741,1144,2742,2744,2740,2743],"class_list":{"0":"post-27788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-char","9":"tag-jason-bateman","10":"tag-jim-simpson","11":"tag-sean-hayes","12":"tag-sigourney-weaver","13":"tag-will-arnett"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}