Despite an Oscar nomination, Viola Davis has expressed regret about her role in the film, apparently concurring with critics of its "white savior" narrative. Davis played Aibileen Clark, one the black maids in 1963 Mississippi whose stories are told by a young white woman (Emma Stone) in a book exposing the everyday racism they face. In an interview with the New York Times, Davis cited The Help as a role she regretted. "I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn't the voices of the maids that were heard," she said. "I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They're my grandma. They're my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie."

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