NEW YORK CITY – Ron Howard is going back to TV. The TV actor-turned-film-director is exploring the life of Albert Einstein in “Genius,” produced as a mini-series for the National Geographic Channel. Howard was on the Red Carpet at the Tribeca Film Festival, and HollywoodChicago.com was there to get this Exclusive Photo.
Of course, Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com was there to ask a few questions of the show business titan.
HollywoodChicago.com: What was the origin of your involvement with ‘Genius’?
Ron Howard: We didn’t develop it. The company Oddlot Entertainment brought it to me, with a script, and I thought it was a great idea. Brian Glazer [Howard’s production partner] brought it to National Geographic, and we didn’t even have to shop it around. They said yes. We knew the timing was right.
HollywoodChicago.com: When you were on your first film, ‘Grand Theft Auto’ in 1977, and you yelled action for the first time, did you use that first shot in the final cut?
Howard: No I didn’t, because I also had to act in it. It was my first take, on my first day of directing, and I walked into the shot as an actor as well. It was lousy, and we had to do it again, to get it better. [laughs]
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