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Ron Howard remembers impactful moments from his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard’s early acting career. Howard recalls watching Bryce’s first Broadway performance in Tartuffe in 2003, plus her involvement in a courageous cast of experimental college students, who performed for family and friends while nude.
2006 interview:
“What did your father, director Ron Howard, think about Manderlay’s rather graphic sex scene?
Well, that scene in particular…You know what, from the beginning, he was really excited about me working with Lars, because he’s just such a bold filmmaker. And he said, “In this business, you don’t know how long your career is going to last for, and if you have an opportunity to work with a filmmaker like that, why would you ever turn that down for the sake of your inhibitions?” And I’m really grateful for that advice. Not like I was considering it, honestly. [laughs] I’m just glad that he gave me the okay. And when he saw it, yeah…I know it was difficult for him as a parent. But he knows it was an important scene. I mean, it was an amazing scene.”
It seems like it would be nice as a society to not be so hung up on nudity. Though I also wish that I had gone to a less conservative college
You’re absolutely right and the attitude has been pushed mostly thru media owned by the companies that control Hollywood. They act like it’s the biggest deal in the world and then charge you premium and pay-per-view prices to see it. The profits from those via cable tv was huge and that was always the plan. Hollywood has been about as ridiculous as the moral majority for many decades now. With general streaming taking over and Hollywood losing market share fast, the attitudes will probably continue to change a lot. The Hollywood media companies will be the last to change as they still make large profits off existing cable customers.
I would argue that it’s more the conservative puritanical government than Hollywood. They make the rules. Hell some states are restricting porn now: Louisiana, Utah, Mississippi, Virginia, Arkansas, Texas, Montana, and North Carolina have passes laws.
And that’s conservative with a small c to be clear, though the “Conservative” party does it more
In my college years, I had one roommate who was in a production of Hair, and there was apparently a thing during the run where, for the scene where everyone takes their clothes off, most of the cast had told their families, “Yeah, SOME people get naked in that scene, but I don’t”, any given night someone would go, “Oh, hey, my parents are in the audience tonight, so I’m not getting naked.”