Bryce Dallas Howard Is Never 'Shocked' When a Movie Flops: 'You Can Always See It Coming'

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  • Bryce Dallas Howard said she doesn't get excessively upset complete films of hers that fizzle astatine nan container office
  • "You tin hardly consciousness disappointed because it’s not yours," nan character said, explaining that actors are location to "serve a director's vision"
  • Bryce said her head dada Ron Howard takes disappointing container agency returns harder than her

Bryce Dallas Howard isn't letting debased container agency results get her down.

In a Sunday, June 7 question and reply pinch The Independent, the actress, whose films scope from Argylle and Lady successful nan Water to nan Jurassic World franchise, said, "I’ve ne'er been shocked erstwhile thing doesn’t work."

"But I’m conscionable an actor— you’re location to service a director’s vision. If a movie doesn’t move retired nan measurement that you envisioned, you tin hardly consciousness disappointed because it’s not yours. You’re not nan personification who’s building nan thing," nan star, 44, added.

Bryce Dallas Howard successful 'Argylle'.

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Bryce mentioned that her consequence differs drastically to her ain father, head Ron Howard, who often takes container agency failures to nan heart. "It blows him distant that I don’t do that," Bryce said.

She recalled really erstwhile her father's 1992 movie Far and Away, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, tanked astatine nan container office, prompting him to spell to Clint Eastwood for advice.

"He said, ‘Ronnie, a profession is for illustration a play of television. You’ve sewage 24 episodes, immoderate of nan episodes are going to beryllium bad, immoderate are going to beryllium serviceable, possibly a small forgettable, and possibly 5 of those episodes are going to beryllium really beardown and last.' ”

The Jurassic World character has held onto that proposal while jumping down nan camera herself to nonstop episodes of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett plus Apple TV+ documentary Dads.

She explained added that erstwhile she yet helms a communicative film, location are a fewer things she has successful mind to guarantee its success.

"I’m gonna want to activity pinch a head of photography who’s really experienced, because I don’t want to beryllium nan astir knowledgeable personification connected a set,” she said, adding, "I really shouldn’t be."

Bryce Dallas Howard pinch begetter Ron Howard astatine nan 2024 Paley Honors.

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Bryce's movie Argylle was a container agency dud. Despite nan spy action-comedy's star-studded formed featuring Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cena and more, nan movie opened to only $17.4 cardinal astatine the domestic container office in February and grossed $96 cardinal worldwide during its theatrical run.

Director Matthew Vaughn, who is responsible for movies like Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class and the Kingsman series, responded to antagonistic reviews of nan movie successful an question and reply with Empire.

“We didn’t make Citizen Kane, but f---ing hell, past nan reviews came retired and I’m like, ‘Wait, what person I done to offend these people?’ They were vitriolic," Vaughn, 53, said astatine nan time. "I’m not saying nan movie’s cleanable by immoderate means, but I didn’t deliberation it was offensive. That took maine by surprise."

Bryce stars successful Deep Cover, connected Prime Video now.