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In December 2009, Howard was cast in Clint Eastwood's Hereafter ( 2010 ), as a burgeoning love interest of Matt Damon's character.

When Howard first read the script to Hereafter, she was hooked on it, having been attracted to its central character ( Damon ) a reclusive man with the ability to speak to the deceased.

" It's personal for me because a lot of my family members actually have that ability.

It's kind of wild ," Howard said.

In early January 2011, Howard became the first celebrity ambassador for purse designer Kate Spade.

Her first film of 2011 was The Help, a movie adaption of Kathryn Stockett's 2009 best-selling novel of the same name ; it also starred Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain.

It focused on African-American servants and their wealthy white employers in Mississippi prior to the civil rights era.

Howard has teamed up with her father to help produce Gus Van Sant's Restless, a dark coming of age movie about a teenage boy and girl who are engrossed with death.

She had a supporting role opposite Seth Rogen in the cancer dramedy 50 / 50, which was based on a true story.

" It ’ s viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour ", she stated of 50 / 50s take on its heavy subject matter.

Both films had September releases.

In 2011, she announced that she would be directing a film called The Originals.

She co-wrote the screenplay with her brother-in-law Dane Charbonneau and described it as " a Breakfast Club for my generation ".

This would mark her feature directorial debut.