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'I was a little biased in my anticipation for The Help during the DreamWorks presentation at Cinema Con yesterday. Not only had I visited the set in sweltering Mississippi summer heat (more on that later this year), but I had read the best-selling Kathryn Stockett novel on which it was based, thanks to a recommendation from my mother who had since sent it on to all of her friends. The Help is already a phenomenon in the literary world, and the movie with a dynamite cast and a director who grew up with the author seemed to have everything going with it to be great.'
It seems like all the sweat you guys put into working on this movie on location in Mississippi is really showing up on the screen.
Emma Stone: Literally. There's so much sweat in the movie.
Bryce Dallas Howard: Crotch sweat.
Does it feel a little bit weird to show up at Cinema Con amid all the bigger 3D summer movies, going "Please, enjoy our classy literary adaptation with social themes?" Did that feel like a disconnect?
Bryce Dallas Howard: There was some quote that I read somewhere [from Chekhov], where enormous things can happen in a living room. In the past, films like this were these event movies. I hope Tate didn't take it take it as an insult the first time I started seeing some footage -- I'm like, "You made a '90s movie!" It's one of those films that are incredibly powerful and heartwarming, but very true. You can watch them over and over and over again, because they take you through this journey.
Saying this is a 90s movie-- do you feel like it is a throwback in doing things that major studios don't bother to do anymore?
Emma Stone: Isn't it a shame that you say that?
Bryce Dallas Howard: My dad saw the film with all of us on Sunday. That's something he was really struck by, because those are the kinds of movies he wants to make and platformed his career, in a way. He wrote Stacy [Snider, chair of Dreamworks] being like, "You made one of them. How'd you do that?" She was his boss over at Universal, when she was over at Universal. She wrote back saying, "Whenever I hear about a certain genre being dead, I laugh. It's ridiculous. This is storytelling. Who's to say what's the more successful genre of storytelling? You need to do it really, really well." I think to do this kind of movie well takes a lot of effort, and I think you can in some ways justify a considerable amount of effort when you're building something that's technologically groundbreaking. When you're having trouble with a script, or when you're having trouble with working a scene, people maybe prematurely give up, and nobody gave up on this film. There were so many incredible minds behind this process, and there was so much support that I'm really excited that there is a film that can represent that and is being sold as that in a way that I think is very successful.
What would you to say some hypothetical moviegoer who wouldn't want to see this movie because it's set in the 60s?
And films like this can make that difference between past and present even more obvious.
Bryce Dallas Howard: In a very entertaining way. That's the thing that's very distinctive, I think, about this particular genre of filmmaking: it's not grueling. You're not watching miserable people living their miserable lives in Miserabletown, USA. These are people who are really trying, it's hilarious, it's emotional. It's all the things you would want out of an escapist experience, but it's actually connecting you back into what is true. That's what's good about it.
Since you've seen the movie, which of your co-stars are going to steal the movie out from under you?
Bryce Dallas Howard: Sissy, Jessica Chastain.. It's unreal what she does. And Ahna O'Reilly is beautiful.
The Help opens August 12
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