LOS ANGELES: She grew up around movie sets watching her father direct Tom Cruise, Robert DeNiro and other Hollywood greats, yet Bryce Dallas Howard still has her moments of giddy fandom.
The 35-year-old actress recalls her somewhat undignified first meeting with Robert Redford on the set of her new film, Disney’s remake of its own 1977 classic “Pete’s Dragon,” directed by David Lowery.
“There was this big empty road and we were supposed to run toward each other and reunite. It’s an emotional thing,” she tells AFP.
“I knew he was at the other end and I was very far away from set and David yelled action. We were running toward each other and I kind of picked up speed because I was so excited, and totally barreled into him.”
Howard says the 79-year-old Redford was still robust enough to take the hit, if somewhat taken aback at an actress coming at him “like a cannonball.”
It is a neat anecdote because it encapsulates rather well Howard’s self-effacing charm.
Whether she is talking about growing up in rural Connecticut, taking her children to school or filming some of history’s biggest blockbusters, she could be any mom-of-two in America.
The eldest of four children of Ron Howard, the “Happy Days” star turned Oscar-winning director, the actress divided her childhood between film studios and having adventures around the family home.
“I would go away into the woods behind my house all the time. One time I got lost, which was really bad. But I eventually got my way home after dark and no one in my family had noticed,” she says.
The 35-year-old actress recalls her somewhat undignified first meeting with Robert Redford on the set of her new film, Disney’s remake of its own 1977 classic “Pete’s Dragon,” directed by David Lowery.
“There was this big empty road and we were supposed to run toward each other and reunite. It’s an emotional thing,” she tells AFP.
“I knew he was at the other end and I was very far away from set and David yelled action. We were running toward each other and I kind of picked up speed because I was so excited, and totally barreled into him.”
Howard says the 79-year-old Redford was still robust enough to take the hit, if somewhat taken aback at an actress coming at him “like a cannonball.”
It is a neat anecdote because it encapsulates rather well Howard’s self-effacing charm.
Whether she is talking about growing up in rural Connecticut, taking her children to school or filming some of history’s biggest blockbusters, she could be any mom-of-two in America.
The eldest of four children of Ron Howard, the “Happy Days” star turned Oscar-winning director, the actress divided her childhood between film studios and having adventures around the family home.
“I would go away into the woods behind my house all the time. One time I got lost, which was really bad. But I eventually got my way home after dark and no one in my family had noticed,” she says.
