While she appeared in the trailer for Crazy, Stupid, Love only the other day, and is best known for parts such as those she played in Zombieland, Easy A, and Superbad, Emma Stone’s latest movie; The Help; has a much more serious message, and has just has it’s first trailer released online (which is now available to view below).
Based on the bestselling Kathryn Stockett novel of the same name, The Help chronicles the tale of one outspoken college graduate named Eugenia Phelan (Stone), who, after deciding to become a writer, begins the ambitious task of getting the African-American maids in her small town to tell the stories of their hardship; a difficult task in ‘60s Jackson Mississippi, where the ongoing Civil Rights movement seems to have gone largely unnoticed.
Needless to say the move kicks up a huge amount of controversy, and spearheading Phelan’s opposition is the high-society snob Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard, The Village); a woman who believes wholeheartedly in segregation, and attempts to introduce a policy whereby the help aren’t allowed to use the same toilets as the homeowners; hoping that it will all blow over, and she can keep mistreating the help as the second-class citizens she believes them to be.
Jessica Chastain (Stolen Lives), Allison Janney (The West Wing), Sissy Spacek (Carrie), Viola Davis (Knight and Day), Octavia Spencer (Being John Malkovich), and Mike Vogel (Cloverfield) also star in the Tate Taylor (Pretty Ugly People) directed movie, which is due to be released on August 12th in the US, and on October 28th in the UK.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter.
