Bryce Dallas Howard Is Never ‘Disappointed’ by Box Office Flops: ‘You Can Always See It Coming’

Bryce Dallas Howard wasn’t shocked by her container agency flops “Argylle” and “The Lady successful nan Water.” In fact, she knew they astir apt wouldn’t do good successful theaters. The character told The Independent that she tin expect whether aliases not a film will onshore pinch audiences. And moreover erstwhile those features don’t, it’s nan director’s imagination that failed, not hers.

“You tin ever spot it coming while you’re making it,” Howard said of her flops. “I’ve ne'er been shocked erstwhile thing doesn’t work. But I’m conscionable an character – you’re location to service a director’s vision. If a movie doesn’t move retired nan measurement that you envisioned, you tin hardly consciousness disappointed because it’s not yours. You’re not nan personification who’s building nan thing.”

“Argylle,” for instance, had a $200 cardinal fund but made only $96 cardinal astatine nan worldwide container office. Director Matthew Vaughn was baffled by nan bad reviews for nan film, which nary uncertainty didn’t thief bring group to theaters. “We didn’t make ‘Citizen Kane,’ but fucking hell, past the reviews came out and I’m like, ‘Wait, what person I done to offend these people?’ They were vitriolic,” he told Empire. “I’m not saying nan movie’s cleanable by immoderate means, but I didn’t deliberation it was offensive. That took maine by surprise.”

After the reviews were released, Vaughn went to theaters to witnesser audiences’ reactions successful existent time. “I moreover went information to cinemas because I thought, ‘Maybe I’ve mislaid nan crippled now,’” he added. “It did rattle me. I’m genuinely scratching my caput astir that, because you can’t disregard it. It wasn’t for illustration [just] a fewer bad reviews. […] It is what it is. You study from these things.”

Perhaps Vaughn could usage immoderate of nan Howard family advice: Howard added to The Independent that erstwhile her father, Ron Howard’s 1992 romance movie “Far and Away” bombed, Clint Eastwood shared immoderate wisdom. “He [Eastwood] said, ‘Ronnie – a profession is for illustration a play of television. You’ve sewage 24 episodes, immoderate of nan episodes are going to beryllium bad, immoderate are going to beryllium serviceable, possibly a small forgettable, and possibly 5 of those episodes are going to beryllium really beardown and last,’” Howard said.