*“The Help” star Jessica Chastain wants to reprise her role for a sequel alongside Octavia Spencer.
Adapted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel of the same name, the 2011 film takes place in 1963 Mississippi and centers on a white journalist who documents the lives of Black women who work for affluent white families.
Chastain stars as a housewife named Celia, who befriends her domestic worker Minny played by Spencer.
You know who I think about all the time, and I just wish I could play her? Celia Foote,” Chastain said during a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly’s “Awardist” podcast.
“I just want to do something, Celia and Minny, and see what happened. You know they ended up living together and raising the baby together, they were best friends,” she added. “How amazing would that film be? I loved her, and I got to be a bit silly.”
“A lot of my characters I feel like I got to experience a lot. Celia, it was such a deep dive for me,” Chastain told EW. “I really threw on that character and I didn’t really get to mine that much material because I was a supporting part of that story. That’s a character I wish I could revisit.”
Meanwhile, Viola Davis, who stars as Abileen Clark in “The Help” previously expressed regrets about accepting the role.
The film has been slammed over the years for its “white savior” theme.
“I just felt that at the end of the day that it wasn’t the voices of the maids that were heard,” she said in a comment to The New York Times in 2018. “I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They’re my grandma. They’re my mom.”
Davis added, “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.”
READ MORE: Viola Davis on Having Regrets About Her Role in ‘The Help’ [WATCH]
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