Actress Viola Davis, a supporting actress Oscar nominee for “Doubt,” has just booked her first-ever headlining role…playing a maid for a white woman in the 1960s.
Before the outrage begins, consider the Dreamworks film is an adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s “The Help,” which explores the complicated relationships between the upper class matriarchs and their servants in the American South of the early 1960’s.
