Bryce Dallas Howard “cannot be trusted in the presence of famous people”

Bryce Dallas Howard “cannot be trusted around famous people” because she is so easily fascinated by stars.

The Jurassic World star has admitted that despite growing up in show business with her famous father Ron Howard, she still acts like a “fangirl” when she meets someone she recognizes and that she gets “embarrassed” by it.

She told the British newspaper Guardian: “I get extremely easily fascinated by stars and it’s embarrassing. I blush, I stutter, I say weird things. I just get too excited.”

“I act like a fangirl and it takes me a while to calm down. I can’t be trusted around famous people, that’s the bottom line.”

She further described how entertaining she found Tom Cruise as a child when the Hollywood superstar worked with her father.

Bryce added, “He wasn’t my babysitter. He was just in a movie that my dad directed. My siblings and I were pretty young at the time, so he was just a big kid who was really fun and entertained us with backflips and feeding us whatever we asked for. He was always really cool.”

The 43-year-old film actress recently spoke candidly about her childhood in Hollywood, revealing that her father, a filmmaker, and her mother, a writer, Cheryl, did not allow her to enter the film business until she completed her education.

She told PEOPLE: “I think if I had had the chance to act when I was younger, I would have taken it. But I wasn’t allowed to. My parents were very strict about that boundary and they wouldn’t support anyone who wanted to be a child actor.”

Bryce’s parents wanted her to gain experience in other industries, so she gained plenty of life experience. She said, “I started working as a waitress in a deli on the weekends, and it was amazing. Since I was 14, I needed a special permission from my parents to be on the payroll, and honestly I thought, ‘This is great.'”

Bryce worked in a variety of roles before eventually moving into the film industry, and looking back, she is grateful that her parents gave her such a fulfilling childhood.

She said: “I’m really glad they did that because when I started acting, it took a while before I could make a living. It wasn’t until I was able to say, ‘Oh, okay. I can actually make a living doing this.'”