“You can barely feel disappointed”: Bryce Dallas Howard returns to his Box Office es failures

In the Hollywood galaxy (but not that, obviously …), and contrary to a received idea, the transition to realization after having first embraced an actor / actress career, is never a guarantee of success. In this register, Bryce Dallas Howard is a fine example that shows that the two are possible, and above all, being able to alternate. Ron Howard’s daughter is also comfortable in blockbusters like Jurassic World as independent productions of the Lars Von Trier type.

“You are there to serve the vision of a director”

A career that also knows, like others, real failures, mentioned in a long and recent interview with the newspaper The Independent. “You can always see them coming while you realize it. I have never been shocked when something is not working. But I am only an actress – you are there to serve the vision of a director”. She adds: “If a film does not take place as you had imagined, you can barely feel disappointed because it is not yours. You are not the person who builds it”.

And cite two examples. The first, Argylle, produced by Apple+, and released in 2024, in which she embodies the Elly Conway spy novelist. The film's budget was estimated at $ 200 million, and its current revenues barely exceed $ 96 million. That is to say the violence of the slap.

The other is the big failure in the room of his collaboration with the director M. Night Shyamalan in 2006, the young girl of the water, whom she had turned after the success of their collaboration on The Village. Budgeting up to $ 70 million, the girl in the water has dusted exceeded the $ 72 million mark at the International Box.

Her father, she added in the interview, has always difficulty experienced and managed the emotional load when one of his films did not work well. “He is impressed by the fact that I do not do that” she said.

“The more we learn, the more we understand”

Explaining during a panel of exclusive questions to IMAX broadcast at the time of the release of Jurassic World Dominion in June 2022, Bryce Dallas Howard delivered this interesting reflection on her double cap of actress and director.

“What is wonderful when you are an actor who is interested in the staging is that we have the opportunity to see work on many other directors. And it is something that my father – he started as an actor … – When he started to do, he stopped being an actor and he said that it is the most lacking, to see how the different directors solve the problems.

The more you learn, the more you understand, but the more you are lit by each filmmaker we meet. This is why I hope to be able to continue to achieve, but also to play, because it is the best way to learn. “