There's nothing that can make a parent more proud than watching their child do well in their chosen field, but seeing your child perform nude might just sear some images into your brain that you didn't ask for!
At least, that's what Ron Howard, 69, discovered when he watched his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, 42, perform naked in a college play early on in her career.
Ron has had a decorated career in Hollywood, having appeared in the sitcom Happy Days and eventually going on to win Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind, which starred Russell Crowe as a highly intelligent but asocial mathematics graduate student at Princeton University during the 1940s.
Bryce, on the other hand, has had just as successful a career in acting - best known for her standout roles in The Village, the Jurassic World franchise, The Twilight Saga, and The Help.
In a recent episode of In Depth With Graham Bensinger, Ron divulged that seeing his daughter perform hasn't always been easy, especially in the early stages of her career.
"Within seven or eight minutes into the show, nobody had any clothes on," he recalled of Bryce's experimental theater production. "I was sitting next to my dad - I wasn't sure what he would think. When it was over, he turned to me and said, 'I think that's just great. That's what college is all about. She's never going to be afraid onstage again.' That's just the way he viewed things. So, he was proud of her, of her courage as an artist."
Bensinger then asked Ron if he had been apprehensive about seeing Bryce in the production, to which he replied: "No, because first of all, I knew there was nudity. I didn't realize it was full-body, nonstop. It was a complete assault on a father's psyche."
Though, he did admit he knew his daughter could act, even from the age of 13. "I saw that she could do it," Ron admitted, adding he was "proud of her but a little terrified because the business is so much tougher for women than it is for men, and I dreaded the fact that she was gonna have the talent to really be able to make a run at it."
As for the whole 'nepo baby' argument that people often throw at Bryce, she has addressed the fact that she comes from a famous family. She revealed to the Los Angeles Times in 2020 that she eventually realized that she had nothing to be embarrassed about: "For me to be weird about something that, honestly, really doesn't have anything to do with me - I just realized, that's just shortsighted."
She continued: "So many of my peers at NYU had parents who were really not supportive of them being artists in any way, shape, or form, which totally made sense because they were scared for them. I had parents who were emotionally supportive of me. ... There wasn't a lot of baggage that I inherited from them in that way."