FROM PONYBOY TO HORSEMAN
“This is the new normal for me,” C. Thomas Howell responded when asked if he’ll keep roping if things ever return to “normal,” post-COVID-19.
Howell, 54, is a lifelong Hollywood actor. The son of venerable stuntman Chris Howell, he grew up on set, had his first gig at age 6 and won the part of Tyler—the neighbor kid in the 1982 blockbuster, E.T.—by showing Steven Spielberg he could handle a BMX bike and a Marlboro Red. He was 12.
On one hand, he always knew that’s where he was meant to be.
“When I started working,” Howell recalled, “it wasn’t a special transition because I knew that’s what I was going to do my whole life. It
