Bryce Dallas Howard followed her dad (Ron Howard) into the acting business, and like her father, she is also expanding her creative horizons as a producer.  The actress is one of the driving forces behind the Gus Van Sant directed drama Restless, which focuses on a funeral crashing youth (Henry Hopper) who falls in love with a terminally ill teenager (Mia Waskikowska).

Although she spent years shepherding Restless (her friend Jason Lew penned the script), Howard decided not to act in the film. “I have a lot of admiration for people who can act and direct, or act and produce,” says Howard, who co-stars in this summer’s runaway hit The Help.  “It requires I think a lot of skill and a tremendous ability to multitask.  I knew going into this, while I was very passionate about the project and confident in what Jason had created, I knew that I was green.  I think to early on decide that I want to be in it too, I would have been compromising a performance or my ability to contribute to the project as a producer.”

Click on the media bar and listen to Bryce talk about how she got her father (director Ron Howard) and his production company (Imagine Entertainment) to help produce the film:

Restless opens in limited release September 16th.

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