Bryce Dallas Howard, the daughter of famed director Ron Howard, may have grown in the glow of Hollywood, but behind the glitz was a childhood that, in her own words, was far from typical.
“I was such a messed up kid,” the actress explained in an interview. “I would walk around the Disney lot reading about euthanasia.”
The 44-year-old revealed how, as a child, her mind often wandered to disturbing thoughts about mortality and tragedy, compounded by an emotional intensity that made it hard for her to develop as a normal child.
