Josh Duhamel Talks Being Girl Dad & Sons’ Reactions to New Baby (Exclusive)

“Extra” spoke to Josh and his co-star Minka Kelly about the second season of “Ransom Canyon,” as well as his life as a girl dad. 

Josh gushed about his little one, “She’s still 2 months so she’s just sort of developing that curiosity… She smiled at me finally.”

Josh is also a dad to sons Axl, 12, whom he shares with ex-wife Fergie, and Shepherd, 2.

Duhamel noted, “Axl’s more into like Shepherd’s age when he can play with them. He’s like, ‘Oh, cute. Look at the baby.’ Shepherd’s like, ‘I was the baby. Now you’re the baby. I didn’t mean to accidentally kick you in the head as I walk by.' It's like that little... But he does love her and he’s very sweet, but you can tell there’s a little bit of, you know, I don’t know, jealousy I guess is the word."

Josh and his family live in North Dakota and also have a cabin in Minnesota, where they have "sort of a ranch lifestyle.”

He explained, “I’m constantly fixing something or I’m on my tractor or my skid-steer. I'm doing something taking care of the property.”

That made it was easy for him to relate to his cowboy character Staten, who's trying to keep his ranch running. Josh shared of his cabin, "I wanna pass this down to my kids, and I want them to pass it down to their kids, and I want this to be in the family forever.” 

Josh also talked about how Staten is an “old-school dude," quipping, "This is a guy who definitely hasn't done as much work on himself as she should, probably hasn't been to therapy as much as he should."

Duhamel insisted, “Despite all of that, I think that he is somebody who has really good intentions, will eventually do the right thing, even if it takes him a few lefts and rights to get there."

As for “Ransom Canyon” Season 2, Josh joked about how that Minka’s character Quinn “wasn’t pining for me as much as I thought" while she was away in New York.

He went on, “The six months she was gone, I figured she’d come back, ready to, you know, apologize for all of her, you know, mistakes and everything else. Turns out that didn’t happen.” 

Minka elaborated, “She goes to New York and she’s living this new fun exciting life… and she meets someone else and it’s easy to romanticize something new and fresh and, you know, on paper it seems to make a lot of sense."

Kelly added, "You know, at the end of the day, your heart sort of brings you home."

She emphasized, “It’s hard to walk away from that much history… It feels like home… and she comes home, not only to this location, but also this person. And it’s easy, out of sight, out of mind, when she’s in New York, but then when she sees [Staten] again, she’s like ‘Oh, gosh, wow.’ Even this creature that shows up, that’s supposed to be, you know, greener grass… is just not the case.”

Minka said Quinn's mother also enters the picture. "She sort of illuminates for her, 'Oh, am I repeating my mom's patterns and just thinking the grass is greener?' I'm gonna pick a new guy, and then when that gets hard, I pick another new guy. It's like, I don't wanna do that."