Bryce Dallas Howard portrays the most vilified of the characters in The Help, Hilly Holbrook. We asked Howard if she had any reservations playing a woman so out of step with human rights and in ...

Spearheaded by the soulless Hilly (in a breakout performance by Bryce Dallas Howard), the women begin gathering their forces to relegate the help to outhouses where they belong. The obsession with ...

Based on a book of the same name, The Help tells the story of Eugenia ... In what seems to be a kind-hearted gesture, Minny makes Hilly her famous chocolate pie. She allows Hilly to take ...

Is it? “I think that happens a lot, where the rules are broken and it works,” says Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays the arch villainess of “The Help,” Hilly Holbrook, whose obsession with ...

“The Help may not tell us much about the real horrors ... that includes Bryce Dallas Howard’s chillingly bigoted Hilly, smiling incessantly and focused on preserving white purity with ever ...

“The Help” became a communal experience that night ... But I found I could even find a little forgiveness for the extremes of Howard’s Hilly — the portrayal, not the actions.