We were thrilled to have director and actor Ron Howard on the show, who’s just released his newest film, In The Heart Of The Sea. Ron has had an amazing career in television and film, as both an actor and as an Academy Award-winning director. Ron chats about what made him want to direct this movie, how he prepared his actors, and the real secret for of being married 40 years.
Ron’s first steps towards becoming a Hollywood director
Believe it or not, Ron’s first step towards becoming a director actually happened while playing Opie on the Andy Griffith show. “On the 2nd episode of the 2nd season,” a 7-year-old Ron Howard offered an acting suggestion to the director on how his character should say his line. The director took it, and it was there, on the first piece of professional advice he’d ever had taken, that Ron stood “frozen, and overjoyed” with the notion of affecting how stories were told. “It was so empowering,” he recalls, and his infatuation grew from there. Aided by the fact that he “liked directors, liked conversation, and loved the process,” Ron went on to learn more and more about movies, and was especially inspired by the directors of the 60’s and early 70’s, like Mike Nichols and Norman Jewison. “They were people who made tremendous, humanistic, cool movies,” says Howard.
Watch the rest of the interview with Ron here.
And check out the trailer for In The Heart Of The Sea below! It’s out now in theaters everywhere.
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