Ron Howard says it was a 'complete assault' on his 'psyche' to watch daughter Bryce Dallas Howard perform fully nude in a college play

• Ron Howard once saw his daughter Bryce fully nude in one of her college plays.

• "It was a complete assault on a father's psyche," he said.

• Bryce has since starred in movies like "The Village" and two "Jurassic World" films.

Seeing your kid naked onstage is probably not exactly what a parent hopes for their children.

But that's what Ron Howard got when he went to see his daughter Bryce years ago in a college play, according to Howard, who appears in this weekend's episode of "In Depth with Graham Bensinger," as reported by People.

"Within seven or eight minutes into the show, nobody had any clothes on," Howard said of the experimental theater production. "I was sitting next to my dad — I wasn't sure what he would think. When it was over, he turned to me and said, 'I think that's just great. That's what college is all about. She's never going to be afraid onstage again.' That's just the way he viewed things. So, he was proud of her, of her courage as an artist."

When Bensinger asked Howard if he was reluctant to see his daughter in the play, he mused, "No, because first of all, I knew there was nudity. I didn't realize it was full-body, nonstop. It was a complete assault on a father's psyche."