‘Happy Days’ star Ron Howard has explained why he forbade his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard from acting when she was young.
Bryce, 43, recently revealed that Howard, 70, did not allow her and her siblings to follow in his footsteps when they were younger. Howard, who shot to fame when he starred on The Andy Griffith Show at the age of six, shared his thoughts on the potential pitfalls that child stars face in Hollywood in an interview with People magazine.
“It’s possible for the child actors to find a lot of positives in it, but there’s a lot of landmines in it,” the “Splash” director said.
Howard’s younger brother, Clint Howard (64), began acting at the age of two. In an interview with People magazine, Howard recalled that his parents, Lance and Gene, who were both actors, were aware that they would have to spend a lot of time on set supervising their young son.
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Happy Days star Ron Howard has explained why he didn’t allow his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard to become a child actress. (Daniele Venturelli/Wire Image)
He noted that Gene had taken an extended hiatus from acting to focus on her sons’ careers. Jean passed away in 2000 at the age of 73 from heart and respiratory ailments. In 2017, Lance passed away at the age of 89 from congestive heart failure.
Howard and his wife Cheryl, 70, whom he married in 1975, have Bryce, twin daughters Jocelyn and Paige, 39, and son Reed, 36.
The two-time Academy Award winner also worried that if his children entered the entertainment industry at a young age, they would be exposed to “unfair” comparisons to his work as a child actor. he told People.
He noted that “The Andy Griffith Show” was already “mythically significant in the history of television” at the time.
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Howard rose to fame when he appeared on “The Andy Griffith Show” at the age of six. (Silver Screen Productions)
“More than anything, the characters I played as a kid were so well-known that they were iconic…And I thought, ‘If one of my kids wanted to play a kid, I’d have to play a boy or a boy. If you try to play that, girl, they’re going to be unfairly compared,” Howard said.
Bryce studied theater at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for three years, then took a leave of absence to pursue a career as a Broadway actor. When she was 22 years old, her career skyrocketed when she was cast in the lead role in the 2004 M. Night Shyamalan-directed fantasy thriller. “village.”
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In an interview with People magazine last month, Bryce admitted she wished she had started her career at a younger age.
“If I had the chance to play young, I would have taken it, but I wasn’t allowed to do that,” she said. “My parents set very firm boundaries that they weren’t going to support anyone who wanted to be a child actor.”
Bryce said she and Howard “love talking about movies.” (Christie Goodwin/Redferns/Getty Images)
However, the Golden Globe nominee told the magazine that in hindsight, she is grateful for her parents’ decision.
“I’m really glad they did that, because when I started acting, it took me a while to make a living. I was like, ‘Oh, okay, I can actually support myself with this. “I started to think, ‘I can do this,'” she said. .
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The “Jurassic World” star revealed that she has a “great relationship” with Howard, telling People that the two “love talking about movies.”
“But it’s usually about admiring people’s work, gushing about things, sharing crazy stories that are upside down or just having fun,” Bryce explained.
“At least for me, being able to be in this industry with my family is so great because I’m not alone,” she added.
