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The Help is a provocative and inspiring look at what happens when a southern town's unspoken code of rules and behaviour is shattered by three courageous women who strike up an unlikely friendship.
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00:00We find ourselves in the Mississippi in 1962-63 and why Catherine was interested in writing the book and where
00:07we find ourselves in the film is the civil rights movement was just getting started and things were starting to
00:13change but for some reason this microcosm which were the white homes with the black domestics working in them were
00:20unaffected. It was the same way it had been since the 1800s.
00:24You know as well as I do. Every white house should have a separate bathroom for the colored help. Maybe
00:29we should just build you a bathroom outside Haley.
00:32It was everything you would think. The most amazing, supportive, talented group of women and we all came into it
00:40understanding the gravity of the subject matter and relinquishing any judgment and just ready to do what was necessary to
00:49bring those characters to life.
00:50It was like icky because none of them are talented. So it feels really, you know, I feel really bad
00:54for them because they just don't know how to act. None of them.
00:57Oh yeah. Octavia this, Emma that, Jessica this. I talk about them all the time.
01:02Especially that Viola. Oh god. I mean how she's gotten as far is beyond me.
01:07It was insane. It was like the greatest learning experience of my life. All of these women are legends.
01:13I think it's a role of a lifetime. I like quiet characters. I like playing complexity. I like figuring out
01:20what characters are doing in their quiet moments. I consider it to be a challenge as an actress.
01:26I thought I might write my stories down and read them to you.
01:30Alright. I'm gonna do it.
01:33I got to come up with your questions too?
01:35It was so incredible. It was such a good experience and I wouldn't trade it for the world. It was
01:40one of the best things I've ever gotten to be a part of.
01:42I think that perhaps the fact that the characters are so relatable and it is such a volatile time in
01:49our nation's history, but we get to see the human side of these characters that it resonates.
01:57It's a great story filled with human connections and I think it's like my husband says, people are ready to
02:06feel.
02:06You know, so many movies in Hollywood are made to escape. Escape the economic crisis, escape what's happening in the
02:13world in terms of people fighting for democracy.
02:15Sometimes people want to be reminded that they're human and they have a heart that's beating inside them.
02:20Courage sometimes skips a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family.
02:28與人類似 who've told you and it's great.
02:28We'll work with them so we may call us a child.
02:28What do you think you want to thank the parties youandering may be a part of the family of your
02:28life?
02:28How can you make the party with homeowners money?
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