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LaKeith Stanfield respects his wife, Kasmere Trice Stanfield, for more reasons than one.
While attending the New York premiere of Die My Love at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater on Saturday, Nov. 1, LaKeith proudly recalled watching his wife give birth.
“It was the craziest, beautiful, powerful, amazing thing I’ve ever seen,” he told Entertainment Tonight, adding, “And I had a camera.”
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LaKeith said he took pictures while Kasmere was giving birth, and held up her leg, calling the experience “amazing.”
“As a man, all you want to do is help and bear witness,” he said. “And I feel like, coming out of this movie, we’re reminded how important women are, how important they are to the entirety of creation in the world.”
He and Kasmere revealed to PEOPLE in July 2023 that they had gotten married and welcomed their first child together.
“We decided early on we wanted to protect our baby as much as we can for as long as possible,” Kasmere said of their child, whose name and sex they’ve chosen to withhold. LaKeith is also a dad to two daughters from past relationships.
That same month, LaKeith opened up to PEOPLE about what fatherhood means to him.
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“I’m truly concerned about their wellbeing and that I want them to do well, to be well, to feel well in the world, and that’s a unique thing,” he told PEOPLE. “I know for me growing up, I didn’t always feel like I had that. I didn’t really have a figure that was a male that was in my life that I felt I could depend on and count on.”
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Lakeith added that the “connection with my kids is something unlike any I’ve ever had in my life.”
