Hollywood star Bryce Dallas Howard may be 39 years-old, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t still go to her legendary father Ron Howard for advice.
Bryce just made her feature film directorial debut with the Apple TV+ documentary Dads, a movie that focuses on modern fatherhood, and gives fans a bit of a glimpse into the actress’s relationship with her own dad. In a new interview with Fox News, Bryce talked about how this film came to be, and the one piece of advice her dad gave her about it.
“I was open to sharing a more personal side to our family from the get-go because my grandfather had passed away and so much of his legacy was who he was as a father and a grandfather and a great-grandfather,” Bryce explained, going on to say that she found lots of old family home movies.
“My dad was like, ‘No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Nobody wants to see the movie that is Bryce saying ‘I love my dad,”” she recalled. “I heard him, but while I was filming, I kept saying we need an expecting father. We need to see a father go through that transformation, going from not having a kid to having a kid.”
Luckily for Bryce, her own brother was a father-to-be.
“When I found out that my brother was gonna have a baby with his wife, I was like, ‘Would you be in my documentary?’ And they graciously said yes,” Bryce said. “It just made sense at that point [to include Ron], just if nothing else, to contextualize my brother’s story to include my grandfather and ultimately my dad.”
Bryce also said that she was inspired to make the movie as a “product of generations of super devoted, committed, present fathers.” While making the film, she turned to standup comics, who she described as “our modern-day philosophers,” and bloggers in order to celebrate “the modern dad.”
Dads is now available for streaming on Apple TV+. Given the fact that it’s Father’s Day, there’s no better time to check this movie out as we all give thanks to the dads in our lives!
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