
She’s beautiful, talented and knows people in high places. Yet Bryce Dallas Howard has been a fringe dweller in Hollywood, until now.
Her performance as the Southern social queen and racist vixen Hilly Holbrook in The Help, based on Kathryn Stockett’s bestseller, should make audiences stand up and take notice, she also plays Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s girlfriend, Rachael, in the comedic drama, 50/50.
“Rachael is wretched! I am totally on a mean streak this year,” Howard declares. She has also tested her talents behind the scenes, by producing Gus Van Sant’s Restless via her father Ron’s Imagine Entertainment, one of the most successful companies in Hollywood.
During our interview for 2005′s Cinderella Man, her dad had explained proudly how Bryce had been keen to pursue her own more adventurous path, appearing in experimental theatre and movies like M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village and his unfathomable Lady in the Water (where she was a water nymph). In Lars von Trier’s Mandalay, the second of the director’s USA trilogy after Dogville, she replaced Nicole Kidman in the leading role.
“When I was younger, things that maybe didn’t resonate with everyone, resonated with me,” the 30-year-old actress now says.
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