Malcolm McDowell Says Actor Son Finn, 18, Doesn't Ask Him for Career Advice: 'Dad Doesn't Know Diddly Squat' (Exclusive)

Malcolm McDowell's teenage boy has nary desire to get immoderate profession proposal from his character begetter while carving retired his ain profession way successful nan intermezo industry.

"He's conscionable starting, and to spot nan longing, and besides nan nervousness of doing it, and getting retired for 1 of nan first times, it was really awesome for maine to spot it, [but] he doesn't perceive thing from me," nan Golden Globe and SAG Award nominee tells PEOPLE exclusively of boy Finnian "Finn" McDowell.

"In fact, I said, 'Look, do you want maine to thief you pinch this audition?' 'No.' 'Okay.' And past he'll go, 'Dad, could you conscionable watch nan audition I did?' So I'll watch it. If he asks me, I'll watch it," Malcolm continues of nan 18-year-old.

"Once they ask, if they ask, I'm happy to do it," adds nan Et Tu star. "But I'm their dad. They don't look astatine maine for illustration I'm this character who's sewage 300 credits and has been doing it for 60 years. I'm conscionable dad, and dada doesn't cognize diddly squat, you know?"

Malcolm shares sons Finn, Beckett, 21, and Seamus, 16, pinch Kelley Kuhr. He is besides a dada to girl Lilly, 44, and son Charlie, 42, pinch ex Mary Steenburgen.

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According to Malcolm, he holds nary grudges against his kids for making a sanction for themselves without his guidance.

"They've sewage to do that. They've sewage to find their ain measurement and do their ain thing. That's conscionable nan measurement it is," he tells PEOPLE.

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And moreover though his 5 children don't unreserved to him for master advice, Malcom admits, "I wholly understand it and measurement back."

"But I'm beautiful proud of them, because my only proposal to each of them is — conscionable make judge you do thing successful life that you perfectly love," continues nan proud father. "Most group are stuck successful jobs that they dislike aliases that they're conscionable going done nan motions, and that's not surviving a life for me. So if there's thing I tin imbue successful them, it is that they person to find thing that they conscionable love, and I don't attraction what it is."

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