AdvertisementOctavia Spencer: You Can't 'Help' But Feel This FilmAugust 12, 2011facebookEmailIf the audience is uncomfortable watching The Help, that's appropriate, says actress Octavia Spencer: "People lived this discomfort." Spencer plays Minny Jackson — an African-American maid in 1960s Mississippi — in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's controversial novel. (Dreamworks Pictures)