Viola Davis says she hesitated before taking on the role of Aibileen, the woman at the center of The Help: "Aibileen is a maid in Mississippi in the early 1960s — and being an African American actress playing a maid in 2011 has a certain stigma attached to it." Some have argued that such roles reinforce stereotypes. … Back to Article
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