My brother and I would come up with skits and we would act them out and perform them.

We would put on shows as little kids for, like Christmases. My mother tells jokes about how I would – and they must have programmed me to do this because I can't remember it, but I can remember the story – which is that I would walk up and down the aisle of airplanes when I was 2 or 3 years old saying, 'Hello, my name is Sean and I'm running for mayor!' And people have always said about me – a producer just said about me to an executive very recently – that I was sort of the goodwill ambassador. But I was always a very social and sociable and political, and gregarious and outgoing little kid… little tiny kid. He's my father for all intents and purposes, but I actually have a different genetic parentage on the paternal side, so the question gets even more curious to me and I don't know the answers. IGNFF: When you're speaking of nature vs nurture, there's certainly a point where you can say, 'My parents do this…' but prior to that, were you the type of kid who performed naturally? ASTIN: Yeah… There's a whole thread that we could pull on that would take the conversation in a particular area, but John Astin is my adopted dad. If my parents were not actors, I don't know if I would be an actor or a filmmaker. But no, I think the entire fabric of my consciousness has evolved in direct relationship to what my parents did for a living, and did for a passion – in the case of my father and some of his filmmaking endeavors.

I mean, I am a biological product of my parents, and my upbringing – the nature/nurture question, I've found, is always endlessly fascinating. IGN FILMFORCE: Most people know a good deal of your background and your rather unique parentage – would you say it was conducive towards you pursuing performing as a career, or was it just something that you discovered on your own and you just happened to have 'famous parents'? SEAN ASTIN: Well, no.

Movies with spy agent micheal astin