Bryce Dallas Howard says she was a 'messed up kid' as she describes creepy 'dead baby' obsession
Jurassic World actress Bryce Dallas Howard has claimed she was a 'messed up' child who had an obsession with 'dead babies'.
The daughter of Oscar-winning director Ron Howard - whose astonishing filmography includes The Grinch, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, and Apollo 13 - Bryce told The Independent in a new interview that she would often 'walk around the Disney lot reading about euthanasia' despite being surrounded by the wonders of the Hollywood machine.
"When I was growing up, I had a lot of difficulties learning and communicating,” The Village star recalled. "I was always very happy and smiley, but not extremely verbal. It was unclear what intelligence was there, and how much I was really processing."
"But I also wasn't dark," she caveated. "There was just a sort of intensity to my feelings and the stories I was curious about."
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Her parents Ron and Cheryl were reportedly concerned though, according to the actress, and she said they booked her in with a psychologist
"Can we talk about the dead babies? Because Bryce talks a lot about dead babies," were the professional's exact words, according to Bryce.
Mulling around her dad's film sets as a little one, the future Black Mirror star was apparently told to avoid the actors so as not to disturb them.
Fatefully, this rule introduced Bryce to the camera department, where she got to learn about the production process by chatting to first assistant directors and the sound recordists.
It wasn't until her adolescence that she considered the world of acting.
Elsewhere in the same interview, the 44-year-old admitted she 'hardly ever gets recognized' out in public.
"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," she said. "I was never followed around by photographers."
This comes in the wake of childhood revelations delivered by Tom Hanks' daughter Elizabeth Anne, who, in her new book The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, dissected her late mother Samantha Lewes' mental health struggles.
"Eventually a divorce agreement was settled, and I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half-brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love, I was a Sacramento girl," she wrote.
"I lived in a white house with columns, a backyard with a pool, and a bedroom with pictures of horses plastered on every wall. As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s**t that you couldn't walk around it, the house stank of smoke.
"The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible."
A-lister Hanks was married to Lewes between 1978 and 1987.
At the premiere of his latest movie, director Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Hanks addressed how he felt about Elizabeth's truth during a chat with Access Hollywood.
"It's a pride because, I think, she shares it with me, she's been very open about what the process is," he began.
"We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us, despite the fact that part of it would seem as though, she would work for some international well-known firm with a copyrighted last name.
"She knows that and she leads into absolutely everything of it and I think anyone who does that is a bold journalistic literary mind and I'm thrilled I can say the same thing about my daughter."
Topics: Film and TV, Hollywood, Mental Health, Tom Hanks
Dan Seddon