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    Bryce Dallas Howard Would Reject 'The Help' If She's Offered the Movie Today

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    The ‘Jurassic World’ actress is uncomfortable with her 2011 movie because it’s ‘created by predominantly white storytellers’ and told through the perspective of white people.
    Jun 19, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Bryce Dallas Howard would turn down her role in “The Help” if the project were offered to her today.
    The 2011 movie, based on Kathryn Stockett’s book about the racism encountered by black maids in America’s southern states in the 1960s, has become the most-watched film on Netflix thanks to ongoing Black Lives Matter protests taking place around the world.
    Howard, who played snooty Hilly Holbrook in the film, admits she was “grateful” to land the role but wouldn’t sign on for the project today due to the fact it was “created by predominantly white storytellers” and she feels it’s time for audiences to look for projects featuring black storytellers.
    “Right now, in this time, stories are going to play a crucial role in our ability to empathise and to be inspired into action,” she told the Los Angeles Times, “and the storytellers who we must listen to right now and look to and learn from… there’s an extraordinary body of work that centres on black characters from black creators.”
    Asked if she’d play Holbrook today, Howard tells the Times, “No.”
    The actress addressed the popularity of the film earlier this month, June 2020, taking to Instagram to encourage followers to look to other films that focus on the struggles of the African-American community.
    “I’ve heard that #TheHelp is the most viewed film on @netflix right now! I’m so grateful for the exquisite friendships that came from that film – our bond is something I treasure deeply and will last a lifetime,” she wrote. “This being said, The Help is a fictional story told through the perspective of a white character and was created by predominantly white storytellers. We can all go further.”
    “Stories are a gateway to radical empathy and the greatest ones are catalysts for action. If you are seeking ways to learn about the Civil Rights Movement, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow, and all the ways in which those have an impact on us today, here are a handful of powerful, essential, masterful films and shows that centre on Black lives, stories, creators, and/or performers.”
    Among the films Bryce suggested watching were “Malcolm X”, “Selma”, and “Just Mercy”.
    Viola Davis, who starred as Aibileen in “The Help”, also expressed regrets about the film in a 2018 interview with The New York Times.
    “I just felt that at the end of the day, that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she explained. “I know Aibileen. I know Minny (Octavia Spencer’s character). 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.”

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      Bryce Dallas Howard Finds Expectant Father in Brother for 'Dads' Documentary

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      Talking about her upcoming Father’s Day movie, the daughter of Ron Howard admits she learns during filming that men have no rite of passage when they become fathers.
      Jun 17, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Bryce Dallas Howard struck gold while she was making her new Father’s Day movie, “Dads”, when her brother announced he was having a baby.
      The actress was on the hunt for an expectant dad to complete her parenting documentary when suddenly the project became a real family affair.
      “When I started making this movie, my hope was to profile fathers around the globe and I kept saying… ‘We’ve got to find an expectant father; we need to capture that before and after that is fatherhood, where your life is never the same ever again’,” “The Help” star explains, “and about half way through shooting, my brother and his wife shared with us that they were pregnant, and so he became my expectant father.”
      And the filmmaker knew she had something special when she tracked down her brother and her dad, Ron Howard, “hiding” at a baby shower bash.
      “I was filming… my sister-in-law’s baby shower and I was like, ‘Where’s Reed? Where’s my dad?’ – because I knew that they were in the house…,” Bryce told “Good Morning America”.
      “I went down to the basement and I was filming them there and I realised that men have no rite of passage when they become fathers, and here they were listening to the screams of countless women supporting (mum-to-be) Ashley in this adventure… and yet my brother was downstairs with my dad, just sort of, like, hiding.”
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      “Dads” hits AppleTV+ on Friday, June 19, just ahead of Father’s Day.

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      Bryce Dallas Howard Points Out 'The Help' Weakness as Educational Movie on Racial Equality

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      While grateful for the friendship that came from the 2011 film, the Hillary Walters Holbrook depicter would rather her followers to watch such movies as ‘Malcolm X’, ‘Selma’ and ‘Just Mercy’.
      Jun 9, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Bryce Dallas Howard has urged fans not to watch “The Help” to educate themselves on racial equality – instead offering a selection of movies with more appropriate messages to take away.
      Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of white police officers, and the subsequent Black Lives Matter protests taking place around the world, the actress’ 2011 movie “The Help” has become the most-watched film on Netflix.
      Based on the controversial book of the same name by Kathryn Stockett, the film is set during the Civil Rights Movement in 1963, and tells the story of young journalist Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone, who decides to write a book about the racism encountered by black maids at that time.
      Bryce stars in the movie as Hillary “Hilly” Walters Holbrook, and took to Instagram to tell her followers that while she remains proud of the friendships she forged on set, there are other films more appropriate to watch right now.
      “I’ve heard that #TheHelp is the most viewed film on @netflix right now! I’m so grateful for the exquisite friendships that came from that film — our bond is something I treasure deeply and will last a lifetime,” she wrote. “This being said, The Help is a fictional story told through the perspective of a white character and was created by predominantly white storytellers. We can all go further.”
      “Stories are a gateway to radical empathy and the greatest ones are catalysts for action. If you are seeking ways to learn about the Civil Rights Movement, lynchings, segregation, Jim Crow, and all the ways in which those have an impact on us today, here are a handful of powerful, essential, masterful films and shows that center Black lives, stories, creators, and / or performers.”

      Among the films Bryce suggested watching were “Malcolm X”, “Selma” and “Just Mercy”.
      Bryce’s Instagram post comes after Viola Davis, who starred as Aibileen in the film, told The New York Times back in 2018 that appearing in the Oscar-winning film is one of her career regrets.
      “I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she explained. “I know Aibileen. I know Minny (Octavia Spencer). 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.”

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