Ron Howard refused to watch his hit movies.
The 70-year-old “Happy Days” actor turned director has spent years producing some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters, including “Splash,” “Cocoon,” “Backdraft” and “Apollo 13.” , said he doesn't like to dwell on the work. his achievements.
He told People magazine: “Frankly, I don't look back and watch my movies, so it's been a while since I saw 'Splash.'”
But Ron said of the popular 1984 comedy starring Daryl Hannah as a mermaid discovered by Tom Hanks:
“We just laughed every day. It was such a hilarious, romantic and funny combination of story values and situations.”
Ron began his career as an actor, first appearing as Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show,'' before getting his breakout role as Richie Cunningham on the ABC sitcom “Happy Days'' in the 1970s.
After producing Splash, Ron also produced A Beautiful Mind and the critically acclaimed 1991 film Backdraft, starring Robert De Niro, Kurt Russell, and William Baldwin.
He hasn't acted in years, other than as a narrator on the 2003 sitcom Arrested Development, but admitted he could be persuaded to go back in front of the camera.
In 2022, he told the variety show podcast “Awards Circuit'' that if his daughter, actress Bryce Dallas Howard, 43, were to star in a movie he was making, he would “probably” persuade her to do something different. He said he would be able to play the role.
Ron added: “It's probably Bryce directing something and saying, 'Dad, I really want you to come in and do this.' Or, 'You have to do it.'
“In either case, I'll probably be in the makeup chair and in front of the camera.”