As a child, Jason Statham believed that his parents were too hard on him.
The rules, the schedules, the non-negotiable boundaries. None of it made sense back then.
But over the years, they say the British actor—famous for The Meg and the Fast & Furious saga—came to a realization that many children reach sooner or later: when he looked at how today’s kids are growing up, without clear boundaries or firm authority figures, he understood that this discipline wasn’t punishment. It was protection.
The feeling behind this phrase resonated with millions of parents and children who saw themselves in the same story: what we felt as rigidity when we were children, as adults we understand as love in the form of a boundary, even more so with these new generations.