Bryce Dallas Howard is aware of she didn’t have a traditional childhood.
The “Jurassic World” actress, 44, recalled the weird pursuits she had whereas rising 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 stated in an interview with The Unbiased revealed Saturday.
“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 additionally revealed that she “had a lot of difficulties learning and communicating” as a child.
“I was always very happy and smiley, but not extremely verbal,” she defined. “It was unclear what intelligence was there, and how much I was really processing.”
Bryce shared that her dad Ron, 71, and mother Cheryl took her to a psychologist, who later instructed the couple concerning the conferences.
“Can we talk about the dead babies? Because Bryce talks a lot about dead babies,” Bryce recalled the therapist saying, earlier than the star laughed.
The “Rocketman” actress additionally instructed the outlet that she grew up on her dad’s movie units, however was at all times instructed to keep away from the actors to not disturb them. So, she hung out with the digicam division, the primary assistant administrators and the sound guys and realized concerning the movie-making course of.
Bryce stated that it wasn’t till her highschool years that she entertained the concept of changing into an actor.
Regardless of her present 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 acknowledged. “I was never followed around by photographers.”
In a separate interview with The Instances UK, Bryce didn’t push again on the nepo child title.
“I happen to be in a situation where there are multiple layers of privilege,” she instructed 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 famous.
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 stated, “but when you’re someone who’s related to someone else, there’s an inherent curiosity there.”
