When a forest ranger Bryce Dallas Howard comes across a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home, who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon, she turns to her father Robert Redford for help in determining where Pete came from and the truth about this dragon. Was it the connection you had to it, growing up? BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD: For sure! When my sister found out I was doing this film, she started crying. Could I read the script? What are they doing? Where is it shooting? Okay, I just want to look into schools for the kids. How is imagining a dragon, compared to imagining a bunch of dinosaurs? Were there challenges specific to this creature? I was very much in that world of reptilian fantasy characters, and I kept messing up the whole time. No, I mean dragon! When looking at the friendliest, sweetest, most adorable dragon on the planet, your expression is largely one of love, excitement and fun. It was just the first moment of seeing Elliot that my character is frightened. Eventually, by the time I was ending the shoot, I was very clear on the dragon situation. Image via Disney And now, you get to return to the dinosaurs for a Jurassic sequel. What are you looking forward to, with returning to the world of Jurassic and that character? I did with Rosalind in As You Like It. You get to go back and be with your friends. HOWARD: It was a really fun shoot, especially because there were awesome kids there. There were strong days that were important days of work, but there was this area that we were shooting where these little bugs would surround you and go into your eyeballs. I basically spent the whole day swatting. But, that was it. There really were only three days at that location, and it was really important stuff that we were shooting there, so no one really thought about it. But, since you asked. Was it awesome to have Robert Redford for a human co-star? HOWARD: That was crazy! He changed the industry, forever. Image via Disney You have a passion project going with The Swans of Fifth Avenue. What is the appeal of that story for you, and when do you hope to get that going, as a TV show? HOWARD: Hopefully sooner rather than later. I had a book called The Art of Style and it had the story of the Swans in the book. If I relocate, that book is with me. And then, I was on a plane coming back from Sundance and I saw in a magazine a wonderful review for a book called The Swans of Fifth Avenue. I read the summary, and I had been, for a very long time, trying to develop something on my own, just playing around, that would be centered around them. And then, the next day, we put in the offer for the option. That all came together before the book actually got released. And then, when it got released, it did quite well. I would love to do it sooner rather than later, definitely.
