At the 2009 SAG awards, lead actress winner Meryl Streep urged movie executives to give her Doubt co-star Viola Davis a leading film role pronto!
It turns out that Streep’s campaign worked and Davis has been tapped to star in the adaptation of the best selling novel The Help for Dreamworks. [Cinema Blend]
Tate Taylor (Pretty Ugly People) has adapted the book and will also serve as director on the project. The story revolves around a 1960’s Southern maid whose inside knowledge of a local family becomes the subject of a journalist’s article and the fallout this piece has on the community.
Are you excited to see Viola Davis in a leading role?