As soon as Bryce Dallas Howard got the script for Clint Eastwood’s latest drama, “Hereafter,” she was hooked.

And it wasn’t just because Eastwood was directing and Matt Damon was playing the leading role. It was because the flick’s central character ? a man with the ability to speak to the dead ? hit close to home.

“It’s personal for me because a lot of my family members actually have that ability,” says the 29-year-old. “It’s kind of wild.”

In “Hereafter,” which hit screens Friday, Damon stars as a reclusive psychic who can carry on conversations with the deceased. Howard insists that her family, which includes her famous father, director Ron Howard, possesses a similar sixth sense.

“It’s seeing things, hearing things, getting senses from people. Knowing what has happened to them, knowing what they’re facing, even if they’re strangers. It’s really, really crazy,” she says.

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