The Oscar winner spoke with PEOPLE ahead of the History channel's HISTORYTalks, Leadership & Legacy event
Legacy, he says, “That’s something I’ve been thinking a lot about. Having children, a family, that thought process kicks in quite a bit.”
“Being in my position, I had the means to give back,” the actor recalls. “I wanted to do something that was incentive-based, to prevent before we had the cure. So we found high school students who needed what we wanted to give them, which is exercise goals, nutrition goals, accountability to community service and a halo of gratitude. We have students who were about to fail out, on drugs, and came into our curriculum, graduated, got scholarships and just graduated from a major university.
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