The HelpearnedViola Davisher second Oscar nomination and established her as one of the industry’s highest profile actresses, but years later she regrets making the movie.
“I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” Davis said. “I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie.”
Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer inThe Help.Dreamworks Pictures/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
The movie also starred Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney and Bryce Dallas Howard, and the large cast of women have remained close since wrapping on the 2011 film. Davis clarified that although she now doesn’t like the way her character was portrayed, she’s still grateful for the bonds she made with the other actresses while filming.
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“But not in terms of the experience and the people involved because they were all great,” she said. “The friendships that I formed are ones that I’m going to have for the rest of my life. I had a great experience with these other actresses, who are extraordinary human beings. And I could not ask for a better collaborator than [writer-director] Tate Taylor.”
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Davis is currently promoting a movie centered on another cast of strong women withWidows. The Oscar winner stars alongside Michelle Rodriguez, Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo as widows trying to carry out the bank heist that killed their husbands.
Widowsis out in theaters Nov. 16.
source: people.com
