Bryce Dallas Howard Recalls Dad Ron Howard and George Lucas Having Kids at the Same Time: 'They Were Parenting Together'

Mar. 15, 2025

Bryce Dallas Howard and Ron Howard; George Lucas.Photo:Steven Ferdman/Getty

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Bryce Dallas Howardis opening up about her dadRon Howard’s friendship with longtime collaboratorGeorge Lucas— and how the fellow filmmakers raised their kids together.

Happy Daysalum-turned-filmmaker Ron, 70, andStar Warscreator Lucas, 80, have worked together extensively over the years, beginning when Lucas cast Ron in 1973’sAmerican Graffiti —the coming-of-age comedy-drama that followed a group of recent high school graduates on the last night of summer vacation.

Bryce Dallas Howard and Jude Law speak during a panel at MEGACON Orlando on Feb. 8, 2025.Jen Juneau Haupt

Jen Juneau Haupt

“George has watched, you know, my dad grow up, get married, have kids, all of that,” Bryce said during the panel.

“They worked onWillowtogether,” she added, recalling the 1988 fantasy-adventure film starringWarwick Davis, which marked one of Ron’s earliest feature films as a director. “And they happened to all have kids at the same time. George’s oldest child was the same age as me, his middle child is the same age as my sisters, next one [is the same age as] my brother.”

A childhood photo of Bryce Dallas Howard with dad Ron Howard.Bryce Dallas Howard/instagram

Ron and wife Cheryl Howard areparents to Bryce, twin daughters Paige and Jocelyn, 40, and son Reed, 37. Lucas is dad to daughters Amanda, 43 (whom he welcomed with late ex-wife Marcia Lou Griffin), and Katie, 36, son Jett, 31, as well as daughter Everest, 10, whom he shares with wifeMellody Hobson.

“It’s been something where they were just sort of parenting together,” Bryce concluded.

“So yeah, I watched [stuff] at Skywalker Ranch,” she joked as the audience cheered, referring to Lucas' massive Marin County, Calif., ranch, which features film studios, production offices, a lake, a vineyard and Lucas' house.

George Lucas (left) and Ron Howard in 2016.Charley Gallay/Getty

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“I had just been accepted to USC Film School. Even though George was only 28 when he was makingAmerican Graffiti, he was already — to would-be film students — he was kind of a god,” he said of theStar Warscreator at the time. “We became friends. There was just a mutual interest. He saw that I was very passionate about being a director.”

“The experience of being aroundAmerican Graffitiand then getting to know George as he moved intoStar Warsreally tweaked my sensibilities about things,” Ron added. “It was really all about cinema.”

source: people.com