“I draw the line if it’s anything that would actually violate our relationship as a married couple,” Henrie said on ‘The Unplanned Podcast’ on Tuesday, Nov. 10

NEED TO KNOW

• David Henrie shared why he turns down roles that require nudity or kissing during an appearance on The Unplanned Podcast with wife Maria Cahill on Tuesday, Nov. 10
• The pair tied the knot in 2017 and share four kids
• Cahill said their four children enjoy watching Henrie’s performance in Wizards of Waverly Place

David Henrie said he declines acting roles that require nudity, sex scenes, or kissing, saying that he feels it would “violate” his marriage.

Henrie, 37, discussed the topic during an appearance alongside his wife Maria Cahill on influencers Matt and Abby Howard’s The Unplanned Podcast on Tuesday, Nov. 10. The Wizards of Waverly Place alum has been married to Cahill since 2017.

“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 said in the episode. “If I have to kill someone, like, I’m not really killing someone, you know? You can fake that.”

Henrie also said he would be comfortable “producing a drama that’s got a redemptive message, and I like the story, and there’s drug use in it. You’re not really doing drugs.”

However, the actor said he has limits.

“For me, I draw the line if it’s anything that would actually violate our relationship as a married couple,” he added.

Asked to explain, Henrie said, “Nudity, or like … “ as Cahill chimed in with a laugh: “He’s not kissing anybody.”

“I feel like he cares more than I care,” Cahill added. “I so trust him, I literally don’t care.”

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Still, Henrie noted, “You’re not faking that. You’re really doing that thing. There’s not … You’re in bed making out. You just people watching but still, you’re actually doing that. I don’t care how much you’re thinking of bees and birds, or whatever you’re doing to distract yourself. You’re really doing that.”

“I would just feel weird. I would feel very weird; it would shake me,” Henrie added. “So, yeah. I’m not going to do it.”

Cahill then referenced an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place in which Henrie’s character, Justin Russo, kissed one of his love interests on the show, and their kids’ reactions to seeing it.

“They were like, ‘You have another wife?’ Like, they were so upset,” Cahill said, laughing.

Henrie recalled being 16 or 17 at the episode.

“They’ll randomly bring it up, they’re like, ‘Papa kissed another woman.’ And they’ll go up to her and be like, ‘Papa has a girlfriend.’ It’s so funny,” Henrie said.

Cahill said the couple’s four kids have been enjoying watching their dad’s hit Disney Channel show, which ran from 2007 to 2012, and even quote lines back to Henrie.

The couple share son Peter, born in September, and daughter Pia, 7, son James, 5, and daughter Gemma, 4.

During Wednesday’s episode of The Unplanned Podcast, Henrie shared his candid thoughts on his children following in his footsteps.

“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,” Henrie recalled of being a child star. “They treated it like you’d support a kid in a sport, so they always made it fun for me.”

“I’d love for my kids to be performers. I’d love for them to be in the performing arts,” he said of his four children. “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.”

New episodes of The Unplanned Podcast are released weekly on Wednesdays.

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