Patton Oswalt Jokes His Daughter Alice, 16, Is 'Lethally Adventurous' After She Goes Swimming with Sharks
The actor went on to joke that his daughter has a "dark sense" of going towards danger
He shares his 16-year-old daughter Alice with late wife Michelle McNamaraPatton Oswalt's daughter is not taking after her famous father.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the actor, 56, spoke with guest host Diego Luna about his 16-year-old daughter Alice and shared that she's pretty adventurous for a teenager.
'She's like lethally adventurous. She'll always run toward the most dangerous thing she can find," Oswalt says of his daughter, whom he shares with late wife Michelle McNamara.
"Last week she went swimming with sharks off of Hawaii in a cage," he continues. "Sent me footage. Like, 'I'm swimming with sharks, Dad!' I'm like, 'I don't know if you're my daughter because that is so [terrifying].'
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However, Oswalt admits that this isn't the first time he's realized that his daughter likes to live on the wild side.
'Even when she was little, she had this dark sense of going towards danger," he says. "When she was little, she went to camp. Her mom was like, 'Now listen, when you get to camp, just send us a quick note to say, 'I'm alive.''
'She waited two weeks and then sent us a note. And this was the note that she sent. It says 'I'm alive,'" Oswalt laughs, showing a picture of the handwritten note. "That's all she mailed us. She waited two weeks for a perfect punchline."
Back in February, the actor shared how he's keeping the memory of his late wife alive for Alice. Oswalt shared with PEOPLE that he's saved all the books that inspired his late wife, true crime writer Michelle McNamara, for his teenage daughter.
"I saved all the books that really influenced Michelle for her to read," he shared with PEOPLE. "A lot of authors that really landed with her, and one of them was Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, which she read and loved."
"But, it's not like, here are all the true crime books you should read," he added. "It's like these are the myriad books that shaped your mom and also, which by default shaped you. So that's kind of what we're doing."
Oswalt wed his late wife in 2005 and welcomed Alice four years later. McNamara died suddenly in her sleep in April 2016 at age 46 from a combination of prescription medications and an undiagnosed heart condition. Oswalt has since remarried, tying the knot with Meredith Salenger in November 2017.
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