Ron Howard had doubts about casting his mother in Apollo 13 until he saw her without false teeth

Ron Howard had doubts about casting his mother in Apollo 13 until he saw her without false teeth

Ron Howard had doubts about casting his mother in Apollo 13 until he saw her without false teeth.

The 71-year-old put his mum Jean Speegle Howard, in his 1995 space drama movie as astronaut Jim Lovell’s mother, but said it took persuasion from her and his father she could looking sufficiently old enough to play the role.