{"id":79077,"date":"2017-04-03T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T14:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/0de2709a84.nxcli.net\/0-kjasnb\/2017\/04\/03\/new-pics-hbos-immortal-life-henrietta-lacks\/"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T02:30:46","slug":"new-pics-hbos-immortal-life-henrietta-lacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/new-pics-hbos-immortal-life-henrietta-lacks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pics To HBO’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Pics\u00a0To HBO’s\u00a0“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”\u00a0<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

April 3, 2017<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>HBO has released new images to\u00a0the Oprah Winfrey vehical\u00a0\u201cThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u201d on\u00a0Saturday, April 22 at 8:00pm ET\/PT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Based on Rebecca Skloot<\/strong>\u2019s best-seller, George C. Wolfe <\/strong>wrote the screenplay and directed the film. HBO picked up the rights to the film back in 2010.<\/p>\n

Winfrey also\u00a0serves as an exec producer on the film, along with Alan Ball, Peter Macdissi, Carla Gardini<\/strong> and Lydia Dean Pilcher<\/strong>. Skloot will serve as a co-exec producer.<\/p>\n

Co-starring with Winfrey will be Rose Byrne<\/strong> will play Skloot,\u00a0a young journalist who, in her efforts to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks and her \u201cimmortal\u201d cells, forms a close bond with Deborah, and Tony Award winner and “Hamilton” actress Ren\u00e9e Elise Goldsberry, <\/strong>who plays the title character. Other cast members include\u00a0Courtney B. Vance, Leslie Uggams, Rocky Carroll, Rose Byrne, Reg E. Cathey, Reed Birney, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, John Douglas Thompson, Adriane Lenox, Kyanna Simone Simpson<\/strong>\u00a0and Roger Robinson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u201d tells the true story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks, played by Winfrey, the film chronicles her search to learn about the mother she never knew and to understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks\u2019 cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever.<\/p>\n

Henrietta Lacks\u2019 sons Zakariyya Rahman<\/strong> and David Lacks, Jr.<\/strong> and granddaughter Jeri Lacksare <\/strong>serve as consultants on the HBO project.<\/p>\n

Here’s the list of character breakdown:<\/p>\n

\u2014 Oprah Winfrey<\/strong> as Deborah Lacks, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 charismatic, complicated daughter.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rose Byrne<\/strong> as Rebecca Skloot, a young journalist who, in her effort to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks and her \u201cimmortal\u201d cells, forms a close bond with Henrietta\u2019s daughter, Deborah. Skloot\u2019s quest resulted in her New York Times bestselling book \u201cThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ren\u00e9e Elise Goldsberry<\/strong> as Henrietta Lacks, a young Baltimore woman whose cancer cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951. HeLa cells became one of the most important tools in modern medicine.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rocky Carroll<\/strong> as Sonny Lacks, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 third child and Deborah\u2019s older brother.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Courtney B. Vance<\/strong> as Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield, a slick southern lawyer who tries to insert himself into the Lacks\u2019 quest for knowledge and acknowledgment.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Reg E. Cathey<\/strong> as Zakariyya, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 youngest child and Deborah Lacks\u2019 brother.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Reed Birney<\/strong> as Dr. George Gey, who harvested HeLa cells from Henrietta Lacks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leslie Uggams<\/strong> as Sadie, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 best friend and cousin.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Benjamin Hickey<\/strong> as Bill Watson, Rebecca Skloot\u2019s editor.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Ruben Santiago-Hudson<\/strong> as Dr. Pattillo, a doctor and professor of gynecology from Morehouse School of Medicine, whom Rebecca Skloot must first impress in order to gain access to the Lacks family.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Byron Jennings<\/strong> as Dr. Victor McKusick, a geneticist at Johns Hopkins.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Douglas Thompson<\/strong>, as Lawrence, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 oldest son and Deborah\u2019s older brother.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Roger Robinson<\/strong> as Day Lacks, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 widower and father to all their children.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Adriane Lenox<\/strong> as Barbara, Lawrence\u2019s wife, who pulled Deborah, Sonny and Zakariyya from their Aunt Ethel and Uncle Galen\u2019s home and finished raising them.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gabriel Ebert<\/strong> as Dr. Christoph Lengauer, who first shows HeLa cells to the Lacks family.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Peter Gerety<\/strong> as Paul Lurz, an administrator at Crownsville Hospital.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Beasley<\/strong> as Henrietta Lacks\u2019 cousin, Cliff, from Clover, Va.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kyanna Simone Simpson<\/strong> as young Deborah Lacks, Henrietta Lacks\u2019 daughter.<\/p>\n