The film is set in a fictional town in the Pacific Northwest but it was shot in New Zealand, which brought back more memories for Howard. "He would ask, and not in a precocious way or anything, he would ask very genuinely, questions like, 'Oh, I'm sorry, what lens are you using right now?' And then he would adjust his performance according to the lenses that were being used." The young star even seemed like a budding director on set. Howard said she was blown away by Oakes's performance, noting he had to act opposite something that wasn't really there. David Lowery directed and co-wrote the story. There, he meets a friendly dragon who ends up raising him until Howard's character and a deforestation crew stumble across him six years later.Ĭo-stars include Oona Laurence as a young girl who grows fond of Pete, and Wes Bentley and Karl Urban as lumber mill workers. Oakes Fegley stars as young Pete, who wanders off into the woods after a car crash that kills his parents. "Pete's Dragon" is a live-action reimagining of the original animated film. She was like, 'Oh my gosh, that beautiful movie.' So it is really meaningful to me." "And when I heard that I was going to actually be in 'Pete's Dragon,' I called my little sister and told her and she burst into tears. "We had a VHS copy of the film that we just basically ran into the ground," said Howard, whose other credits include "The Help" and "Jurassic World."
Howard said she was "obsessed" as a kid with Disney's original "Pete's Dragon" from 1977. "I think it was a powerful exercise for him, to tell his story out loud and get a sense of where the audience would react based on how his very, very honest, blunt children would react." "I remember him telling me the story of 'Willow' on one of these car rides, I remember the story to 'Far and Away' being told to me on one of these rides, and he would test out a lot of 'The Grinch.' "I'm one of four kids and he would drive us to school every morning and use us as a test audience and test out the story of his films on us," Howard said in a recent interview. Playing the forest-ranger daughter of Robert Redford's character, who tells tall tales about a mythical dragon, brought to mind fantastical stories she heard from her own dad - famed director Ron Howard.
TORONTO - Shooting "Pete's Dragon" brought back many fond memories for Bryce Dallas Howard.
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