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Octavia Spencer: You Can't 'Help' But Feel This Film

If the audience is uncomfortable watching <em>The Help, </em>that's appropriate, says actress Octavia Spencer: &quot;People <em>lived </em>this discomfort.&quot; Spencer plays Minny Jackson — an African-American maid in 1960s Mississippi — in the film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's controversial novel. (Dreamworks Pictures)
If 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)

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