Via The Hollywood Reporter — Mackie shares four sons with his ex-wife, Sheletta Chapital. They finalized their divorce in 2018.
The Avengers franchise actor went on to explain why it’s important to him to build his children’s character. “So, it is just that thing of in the past 20 years, we’ve been living through the death of the American male. They have literally killed masculinity in our homes, in our communities for one reason or another. But I raise my boys to be young men. And however you feel about that, you feel about that.”
Mackie told his sons since they were 2 years old that they need to always say thank you, open doors for women and take care of their mom. “Every time I left for a job, I tell my 15-year-old, ‘You’re the man of the house. You make sure these doors are locked. Every night this alarm is on. You text me or you call me every night before you go to bed and you wake up.’ I love that because we’re men,” Mackie said.
