Project: The Help
Preparing for your Final Task
Listening
Interview from the CAST- group 1
Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain, as Minny and Celia
TASK: As members of your high school movie club, you watch interviews of actors from
The Help for the next session of the club. You discuss the actors’ vision on the story
and film.
1. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1ysIUZ8JRo and
write down words and ideas you understand.
2. Watch the interview again and find information about:
Adapting the book
Minny’s character
The status of women
Celia’s character
The impact of the book on the
actresses
Progress
3. Pick a sentence/part from the interview that you liked and explain why
4. Prepare a recap of the interview for the next session of your high school
movie club:
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Project: The Help
Preparing for your Final Task
Listening
Interview from the CAST- group 2
Emma Stone and Viola Davis, as Skeeter and Aibileen
TASK: As members from your high school movie club, you watch interviews of actors
from The Help for the next session of the club. You discuss the actors’ vision on the
story and film.
1. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls_H8aAj81M and
write down words and ideas you understand.
2. Watch the interview again and find information about:
The reason the book’s so popular
Playing the role of Skeeter
Dialects
The sense of responsibility
The impact of the movie on the
actress
Extra comments
3. Pick a sentence/part from the interview that you liked and explain why
4. Prepare a recap of the interview for the next session of your high school
movie club:
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Project: The Help
Preparing for your Final Task
Listening
Interview from the CAST- group 3
Bryce Dallas Howard, as Hilly Holbrook
TASK: As members from your high school movie club, you watch interviews of actors
from The Help for the next session of the club. You discuss the actors’ vision on the
story and film.
1. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbrcbZTpog0and write
down words and ideas you understand.
2. Watch the interview again and find information about:
Playing the role of the villain
The character of Hilly
Actors’ impressions on the set
Hairstyle and Hairspray
The impact of the movie on the
actress
Extra comments
3. Pick a sentence/part from the interview that you liked and explain why
4. Prepare a recap of the interview for the next session of your high school
movie club:
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Project: The Help
Preparing for your Final Task
Listening
Interview from the CAST- group 4
Allison Janney and Sissy Spacek, as Mrs Phelan and Mrs Walters (The mums)
TASK: As members from your high school movie club, you watch interviews of actors
from The Help for the next session of the club
1. Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYffqgwI41kand write
down words and ideas you understand.
2. Watch the interview again and find information about:
The impact of the book on people
The impact of the film on the
actresses (change)
Kathryn Stockett
and
Taylor
The reference to history
Tate
The
daughters
Skeeter)
Extra comments
(Hilly
3. Pick a sentence/part from the interview that you liked and explain why
4. Prepare a recap of the interview for the next session of your high school
movie club:
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