Bryce Dallas Howard on Working With Robert Redford in ‘Pete’s Dragon’

Disney’s Pete’s Dragon, the remake of the 1977 film of the same name, was released earlier this year and made over $76 million at the US box office. In the film, Robert Redford plays Mr. Meacham, who has always entertained the town’s children with tales of a giant dragon who lives in the woods. Bryce Dallas Howard portrays his daughter, a forest ranger who finds a young orphaned boy who claims to be friends with a dragon.

Howard sat down with BackstageOL’s Dave Morales ahead of the film’s release on home video to talk about what it was like to work with a legend.

“When I first got invited to do this film, Robert Redford was already involved and it was sort of this like ‘Oh my gosh! I’m going to get to work with this…this legend and this brilliant individual who has, you know, changed what the entertainment industry looks like and how it works,’” she said. “And then you like try to play it cool, which I’m pretty bad at.”

“It was a great experience working with him – incredible,” she added. “But then it’s afterwards, and you know today and all of that, where it keeps hitting me that I had…this very rare, privileged experience getting to hang out with him and ask him a million stories and have him tell me all of them…He’s like this super awesome, like very forthcoming, very charming, very gracious individual.”

Pete’s Dragon is currently available on home video.