Ron Howard’s daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard, lived a complicated life as the daughter of one of the most famous Hollywood legends. She first lived in Los Angeles, but she just revealed the day that the Howards decided they were moving.
The actress was sitting with “In Depth with Graham Bensinger” when she recalled that incident that happened while she was in preschool. It cemented her parent’s decision to move out of L.A.
“Apparently, one day someone — when I was at preschool — they gave me a script to bring home to my dad. I think assuming that maybe then my dad would read it and somehow turn around and be like, ‘Yes! This is the movie I’m doing,’” Bryce Dallas Howard told Graham Bensinger. “(It) didn’t quite have that effect.”
“I think my parents realized that being raised in Los Angeles, so much of the culture of this city is centered around the entertainment industry. And they sort of didn’t want to raise us in an environment that felt that singular,” she added.
Ron Howard to the host that the city was “pretty constricting, emotionally reductive.”
“We were hearing stories about kindergarten kids being taunted by other kindergarten kids saying, ‘My dad’s hotter than your dad,’” the director said. He also said that his wife, Cheryl Howard, did not want their four children “subjected to that on a regular basis.”
“She really began to feel passionate about that, particularly as I also started building a company,” Ron Howard continued. “But it was a big leap and it meant a lot of travel time for me. The year we launched Imagine (Entertainment) was the year I actually moved out of L.A.”
The family that included these children, Bryce Dallas Howard, Paige Howard, Reed Howard, and Jocelyn Howard moved to Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1985.
“My parents were very protective, they weren’t bringing me to premieres or anything like that,” she shared. “When we moved out to the East Coast, I was in nature and I grew up on a ‘farm,’ which was not really a farm. It was just some land with a lot of pets.”
There are no regrets for Ron Howard, who said his wife filled their children with “an understanding of real value.”
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