Ron Howard's daughter reveals shocking details about ‘messed up' childhood
Bryce Dallas Howard knows she didn't have a normal childhood.
The 'Jurassic World' actress 44, recalled the unusual interests she had while growing up as filmmaker Ron Howard's daughter.
'I was such a messed up kid – I would walk around the Disney lot reading about euthanasia,' Bryce said in an interview with The Independent published Saturday.
8 Bryce Dallas Howard and Ron Howard at the 2020 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
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'But I also wasn't dark,' she added. 'There was just a sort of intensity to my feelings and the stories I was curious about.'
Bryce also revealed that she 'had a lot of difficulties learning and communicating' as a kid.
8 Throwback picture of Ron Howard, Cheryl Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard.
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8 Ron Howard and Bryce Dallas Howard in an Instagram photo.
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'I was always very happy and smiley, but not extremely verbal,' she explained. 'It was unclear what intelligence was there, and how much I was really processing.'
Bryce shared that her dad Ron, 71, and mom Cheryl took her to a psychologist, who later told the couple about the meetings.
'Can we talk about the dead babies? Because Bryce talks a lot about dead babies,' Bryce recalled the therapist saying, before the star laughed.
8 Ron Howard and Cheryl Howard with daughter Bryce Dallas Howard at a wedding in 1982.
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The 'Rocketman' actress also told the outlet that she grew up on her dad's film sets, but was always told to avoid the actors to not disturb them. So, she spent time with the camera department, the first assistant directors and the sound guys and learned about the movie-making process.
Bryce said that it wasn't until her high school years that she entertained the idea of becoming an actor.
8 Bryce Dallas Howard, Ron Howard and Cheryl Howard at the DGA Honors Gala 2015.
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8 Bryce Dallas Howard with her dad Ron Howard in 2014.
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Despite her current fame, Bryce admitted that she 'hardly ever gets recognized to this day.'
'I live a totally normal life – partly because I'm a shut-in and don't leave the house that much, but I've also just been incredibly lucky,' the 'Mandalorian' director stated. 'I was never followed around by photographers.'
In a separate interview with The Times UK, Bryce didn't push back on the nepo baby title.
8 Bryce Dallas Howard at the 'Deep Cover' premiere at SXSW London 2025.
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'I happen to be in a situation where there are multiple layers of privilege,' she told the outlet, noting that her dad is the son of Hollywood stars Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard.
'So I got to have access in a way that, even if you were born into it, most people wouldn't,' she noted.
8 Bryce Dallas Howard and Ron Howard at the BAFTA Awards in London in 2017.
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Bryce continued, 'At the beginning of my career people would ask — and I was always so shocked by this — 'Do you feel it's been a disadvantage?' And I was like, 'Disadvantage?''
'When you're an actor, you need to capture a casting director or director's attention,' she said, 'but when you're someone who's related to someone else, there's an inherent curiosity there.'
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