Bryce Dallas Howard: ‘I’m Desperate for My Dad to Direct Me’

In an interview with Parade Magazine, Bryce Dallas Howard talks about life, fame and stepping into the world of “Twilight”.

Bryce Dallas Howard, whose father happens to be Oscar-winning directer Ron Howard, is making a bit of film history herself as she gives life to Fisher Willow, a new Tennessee Williams character, in The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Bryce felt a common bond with the enduring women that the legendary playwright has brought to the big screen.

Tennessee’s family.
“There are elements of all the female characters that Tennessee wrote in the character I play. All the women he created could probably be in the same family. I always kind of pictured Fisher Willow as, basically, Blanche Dubois 15 years earlier, when she still had a chance. Tennessee Williams said about A Street Car Named Desire, ‘It’s a plea for the understanding of the delicate people,’ and that’s something that’s really true for this character as well because, as hard and honest as she is, she’s also very, very delicate.”

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