Bryce Dallas Howard gives out some Help

Bryce Dallas Howard jumps away from the dank forests of Washington to the old South as she lands a role in the upcoming novel adaptation The Help. In the picture she plays the antagonistic role of Hilly Holbrook, the beehive hairdo-wearing busybody who is cruel to the black maids and generally rubs everyone the wrong way, says Deadline.

Howard is part of a cast that already includes Emma Stone and Viola Davis from the picture being directed by Tate Taylor. Taylor wrote up the screen play off of the novel by Kathryn Stockett. Producing is Mark Radcliffe, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan under 1492 Pictures. The actress will next appear on the big screen as the blood thirsty Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, set to be released on June 30th. Read on below to see more of what exactly this novel turned feature film is all about.

“The Help,” is the story of three extraordinary women in the deep South in 1962. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but her mother will not be happy until Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but she has disappeared, and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.