The Help

  • NewsThe Wrap

    Ivanka and Jared Kushner Wouldn’t Let Secret Service Use Their Bathrooms, Prompting Comparisons to ‘The Help’

    Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump refused to let their Secret Service detail use any of the bathrooms in their Washington, D.C., home, according to a new Washington Post report — costing taxpayers $100,000-plus and spawning online comparisons to the Oscar-winning 2011 movie “The Help.” According to the Post, President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law have barred the Secret Service officers protecting them in their upscale Washington, D.C., home from the home’s six and a half bathrooms — forci

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  • EntertainmentThe Wrap

    Viola Davis on Why She Regrets ‘The Help': ‘I Betrayed Myself, and My People’

    In a searing judgment of a major Hollywood film, Viola Davis said in a new interview with Vanity Fair that she regrets the role she played in “The Help,” the 2011 film that was nominated for an Academy Award but that she said was “created in the filter and the cesspool of systemic racism.”“There’s no one who’s not entertained by ‘The Help,'” she told the magazine in a cover story. “But there’s a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn’t rea

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  • EntertainmentYahoo Movies UK

    Critics suggest better anti-racism films to watch as 'The Help' tops Netflix charts

    'The Help' proved controversial after its release, with even star Viola Davis criticising its portrayal of history.

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