Josh Duhamel took home a new commitment to raising his sons after playing a deadbeat dad in his new film, London Calling.

“It was fun to look at some of the things that I could even do better as a dad,” Duhamel, 52, exclusively told Us Weekly ahead of the film’s Friday, September 19, theatrical release. “I work a lot, and I often have a lot of guilt about not being there as often as I could be. So I try to maybe overcompensate or do things to be there often.”

He continued, “But at the same time, you want your kid to look and see [that] this is what you have to do to provide for your family. So on the one hand, you can’t be there all the time, because you’ve got to be setting an example. But on the other hand, you might be missing out on life moments that you’d [be there for] if you were a 9 to 5 dad who went to work every day and came home. So it’s a constant struggle in this business. It’s not easy.”