Lydia Pilcher: George Wolfe has put his own light on the emotional story of the family. Science & Film: Do you know what drew George Wolfe to this project? Science & Film spoke with Lydia Pilcher on the phone the week that THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS was completed. Pilcher is also producing the Sloan-supported feature film RADIUM GIRLS, about women in the 1920’s unwittingly exposed to radium. She has worked with HBO on eight other projects, including IRON JAWED ANGELS and YOU DON’T KNOW JACK. Lydia Dean Pilcher (VANITY FAIR, THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST) is executive producer of THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS. The film focuses on the relationship between Skloot and Lacks’s daughter Deborah, and their mutual desire to understand Henrietta Lacks. Abbreviated HeLa, they became famous among research scientists beginning the 1950s but the Lacks family only learned about their mother’s legacy in 1973. The cells have been used in the development of drugs from the polio vaccine to HIV treatments. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS is based on the true story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells were the first that scientists were able to reproduce in a laboratory. Oprah Winfrey stars as Deborah Lacks and Rose Byrne plays Rebecca Skloot. Wolfe has written and directed a new HBO film adapted from Rebecca Skloot’s bestselling book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Tony-winning director and producer George C. Lydia Pilcher on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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