The Help actress Jessica Chastain is set to make her Broadway debut in an upcoming revival of The Heiress.
Chastain, who is currently nominated for a Golden Globe for her turn in The Help, will hit the stage this autumn (12).
The actress will portray a shy young woman yearning for her wealthy father's acceptance in the show, which will be directed by Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo veteran Moises Kaufman.
Her role was most famously played on the big screen by Olivia de Havilland in 1949.
The play, which was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, premiered in New York in 1947. It last appeared on Broadway in 1995.
The Help is a 2011 comedy-drama film adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's novel of the same name. The film is an ensemble piece about a young white woman, Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan, and her relationship with two black maids during Civil Rights era America in the early 1960s.
Skeeter is a journalist who decides to write a controversial book from the point of view of the maids (known as the Help), exposing the racism they are faced with as they work for white families.
The film takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, and stars Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogel, Mary Steenburgen, and Allison Janney. The Help opened to positive reviews and became a massive box office success.
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