Bryce Dallas Howard Recounts Her Childhood with Famous Dad Ron Howard: ‘I Was Such a Messed-Up Kid'

Bryce Dallas Howard is reflecting connected nan difficulties she knowledgeable successful her childhood. 

While promoting her caller Prime Video movie Deep Cover, a drama that besides involves corpses and encephalon splatter, nan character and girl of celebrated filmmaker Ron Howard, 44, recalled having different interests arsenic a kid and struggling to communicate.

“I was specified a messed-up kid – I would locomotion astir nan Disney batch reference astir euthanasia,” Bryce told U.K. newspaper The Independent. “But I besides wasn’t dark. There was conscionable a benignant of strength to my feelings and nan stories I was funny about.”

“When I was increasing up, I had a batch of difficulties learning and communicating,” she said. “I was ever very happy and smiley, but not highly verbal. It was unclear what intelligence was there, and really overmuch I was really processing.”

Bryce is nan eldest child of Happy Days prima and filmmaker Ron, 71, and his woman of 50 years, writer Cheryl Howard. The brace are besides parents to twins Jocelyn Carlyle and Paige Carlyle, 40, and boy Reed Cross, 38.

Bryce recalled her parents being concerned astir her connection skills and taking her to a kid scientist for help.  “ ‘Can we talk astir nan dormant babies?’ nan therapist would ask,” nan character recalled, per The Independent. “ ‘Because Bryce talks a batch astir dormant babies,’ ” she added, laughing. 

Bryce, however, explained to nan outlet that “it wasn’t arsenic bad arsenic it sounded” and that she “just loved dystopian fiction,” listing nan novels 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale, among her favourite reads. 

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Bryce is simply a mother herself, to boy Theodore Norman, 18, and girl Beatrice, 13, shared pinch her hubby of 18 years, Seth Gabel.

Elsewhere successful her interview, nan Jurassic World star, who has been acting for complete 20 years, said she is grateful to person had parents who encouraged her to prosecute a profession successful acting and to travel successful nan footsteps of her filmmaking family.

“I felt very fortunate because I ne'er had it successful my caput that if I wasn’t making a surviving from acting, I was past failing,” she told The Independent. “I’m a third-generation performer. The layers of privilege that I’ve knowledgeable intends that there’s a batch that I’m alert of [about nan industry], and there’s a batch that I will ne'er beryllium capable to understand because of that.”