“I wanted to make the beginning kind of like a 1950s science-fiction movie, because it is like science fiction. As played by Oprah Winfrey, she’s the Lacks family member who most longs to know her mother, who died when Deborah was just a toddler. Instead, his adaptation of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, premiering on HBO April 22, focuses on the title character’s second-youngest child, Deborah. In order to maintain that suspense, Wolfe rejected the idea of focusing his film merely on Henrietta or the medical discoveries of her cells or even Rebecca Skloot’s long quest to get to this story told.
And this is a very simple thought, but they don’t know what’s going to happen next.”
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But she took it and read it to me, and I remember thinking, Oh, history is not just a series of facts but what happens to people. As a kid, he had an epiphany: “My mom looked at my history assignment. “If I hadn’t told stories, I would’ve been a historian,” he tells Vanity Fair from his New York City apartment. It’s a great story-but it may sound like an odd book to adapt into a movie.ĭirector and screenwriter George C.
Doctors cultured her cancerous cells to create what became known as the HeLa strain, cells capable of reproducing and dividing outside the body-a medically vital discovery that led to research breakthroughs, vaccines, gene mapping, and more. Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a nonfiction account of a woman whose body made history.
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