“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” tells the story of Lacks, a poor African America Baltimore mother of five who died of cervical cancer in 1951 at age 31, and whose cancerous cells, removed and cultured from her body for medical research by doctors at Johns Hopkins (without her family’s knowledge), led to significant breakthroughs in medical research, ranging from aiding the development of the cure for polio, to AIDS-related treatments, and much more.īut that doesn’t even begin to really uncover the story of this mostly-unknown black woman, her family, and the significant contributions she unknowingly made to science. It’s a book I first read in 2010, and very much a captivating read.
She will play the author of the book that the film is based on, Rebecca Skloot.
#WATCH THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS MOVIE UPDATE#
Our last update on the project was earlier this year, when it was announced that the project was still very much alive (it had been so long since the initial acquisition announcement that it seemed the project may have stalled), and that Oprah was going to co-star in the film as Lacks’ daughter.Īnnounced today, Rose Byrne (“Damages” and much more) has been cast opposite Oprah in the HBO Films project. Coincidentally, I’m recently re-reading “ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” the non-fiction book by Rebecca Skloot, which Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films optioned in 2010, to adapt into a feature film for HBO.
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