- Title: FJ-HRN-3254
- Summary: Paige Howard Interview: Actor Paige Howard talks about her life and career and famous father, director Ron Howard.
- Description:00:00:25 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard I love it I love it. I mean I um, New York and LA are very different, but um I think theyre both great cities in their own right so. 00:00:52 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard No I was born in California and when I was 6 months old we moved to Connecticut so I was raised, Im an east coast girl. 00:01:13 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Uh well Id say its a combination. You know I love working with people, I love telling stories, um uh Im you know and I think the combination with the fact that I do have so many family members a part of this business just the general familiarity I have with it already um is why Im in it. I love acting, so. 00:01:52 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Im really Im just focused on acting, theater, film, television, um but Im really trying to stay focused on that right now. I like to write um and uh but Im really trying to keep my focus on acting. 00:02:30 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Well Ill tell you, um I got Medium uh just auditioning, a lot of auditioning, um and a lot of good auditions, a lot of bad auditions, its youre right it is, some people know, some people dont. um but uh but I just I think you know the whole the whole like getting started aspect of the business I think its the most nonsensical part. Um it depends on the day, how people are feeling, how youre feeling, um I so I you know just auditioning and the Medium stuck and it was great, I learned a lot, and then I backed the auditioning circuit and eventually I came along and that was great um I dont know, the whole auditioning process, the way I got started is it was really uh its relatively undramatic, which Im grateful for, you know. Um sort of like its sort of like adolescence you know, like a, its awkward and rough at times but really necessary um sort of part of your whole developmental process. It was good. 00:03:57 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Everyone was amazing, and um and I forget who it was, I met when I was a lot younger, I knew one of the producers, I forgot who it was, um but Patricia Arquette was amazing um and yeah people were really really nurturing on that set so it was nice. 00:04:30 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Well I met with Greg in New York um and uh and then I auditioned when he started casting and I just I got it, I went to like a you know really soon after I just flew to Pittsburgh and was just in Pittsburgh for 2 weeks. (talks) I play Sue OMalley, Im an Irish Catholic girl, who has a like romantic, I dont want to say romantic rendezvous, more like a romantic run-in, with um Martin Starrs character Joel. Um uh and I work at the amusement park with Kristens character and Jesses character. 00:05:30 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Uh I mean you just sort of take the character and take the material and uh and its not you know different circumstances, you just sort of go with the circumstances and um and just its like working different muscles but uh you kind of just jump right in and everyone plays along and yeah. 00:06:00 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Oh, I like them both, I like them both. I think comedys probably a little bit more challenging for me, but I really like them both. 00:06:20 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard There was so, we were laughing the entire time so I mean um I remember the second day I was there, I just I had a makeout scene with Martin and um and we were in a car and he is the nicest guy um uh a good friend, incredible actor, but we had this like heavy makeout scene um were just rolling, rolling and rolling, and um he was like, when we were headed into the car, he was like, Are you okay? We just met. You know, I hope youre not uncomfortable, and I was like, no no no, please this is totally fine. And um lets hop right in. But it was freezing cold so uh in the middle of the shot, when we just kept on rolling, my body started to shake, and because I was cold. I remember the minute they cut Martin was like, Oh my gosh, youre shaking. Are you, do you feel okay? I feel like Ive violated you. And I was like, Martin, no, Im cold. Dont worry. And he was like ah and for the entire rest of the shot he was like, are you okay? Are you sure youre okay with this? And um were good friends, so. 00:08:28 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard A favorite of mine, Sally Field, I just I love her, she is so charismatic. Um Ive met her, and shes an incredible human being. Um I really admire her perseverance and you know just as a just as an actress I think shes incredible. I love um I mean I love Judy Dench, Meryl Streep. Ive never met either of them but I know Id start sweating immediately if I did. I would just be like, oh my gosh. Um. 00:09:20 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Ill be ecstatic. Ill be ecstatic, Im sure Ill be a little nervous. Um uh I cannot wait for that day. 00:09:54 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Well hes extremely supportive. Um first and foremost, hes an amazing father uh who happens to be an incredible director and uh actor, producer. Um so uh (talks) um so I uh you know hes really hes really supportive as long as its something, he always says just do something that you love to do, work hard at it, and enjoy your life, and thats how he lives every single day, and uh and um and thats influenced me a lot just to see him work like that and just be the person that he is along with the you know professional that he is. 00:11:48 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard You know I cannot tell you, in ten years possible, 15 years maybe. I know for the next 10 years or so, I really wanna just stick with acting, so uh so no I dont think so anytime soon. (talks) Uh yeah maybe just on my own. That could possibly, I could write something that could come out, just because I do write a lot on my own and so maybe. 00:12:55 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Uh its totally um I mean, Toms a great guy, and anyone thats been around him knows what a delight he is, um but its completely average, honestly you know its just like its very relaxed, uh you know they laugh, we hang out, people come and go. Its very relaxed. 00:13:31 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard He does, he does. Hes a really charming guy, uh really talented, really you know sort of just nice guy. Hard working, great actor. 00:14:18 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard Um he hasnt seen Adventureland, um hes excited, hes going this weekend. Um uh but you know he whole hes really he just hes really cut and dry about it. Like Ill be like, So dad, what do you think? What can I do? What are the good things that I did? What are the not so good things that I did? And well just have a conversation about it. 00:14:44 - Sound Bite: Paige Howard I dont know, well see. Im just gonna keep plugging away and then um and well see over the next couple months or so. (talks) uh maybe a few little, well see. (talks) Um in 5 years I just wanna be working, keep plugging away, uh actually you know the book Outliers, it says it takes its a book out right now, it says it takes ten thousand hours to master something and so I kind of, I mean I havent been counting my hours or anything, but I think I just wanna keep chipping away that, and I wanna get really really good at this so keep working um and uh yeah thats the plan. 00:15:43 - B-Roll Paige Howard Paige walks down path, rack focus Paige walking down path, do that again, Paige walking down other path, again but wider, Paige talking to Jose. Paige walking down sidewalk, again with sunglasses, again. Walks from street down path into woods, again
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/2009
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 2000s
- File Name: FJ-HRN-3254