HBO this week announced a premiere date for the docudrama "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." Now, the network has also released the first trailer, which you can watch above.
The movie, which stars Oprah Winfrey, explores the life of Henrietta Lacks, a Baltimore County woman whose cells were taken from her when she was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951. The cells were later developed into the first immortal cell line, and continue to be used in medical research.
Winfrey plays Lacks’ daughter Deborah in the movie, based on Rebecca Skloot’s book of the same name. It will premiere 8 p.m. April 22.
If some of the scenes in the trailer look familiar, a film crew — including Winfrey and Rose Byrne, who plays Skloot — were in Baltimore shooting the movie in September. (Not shown: the Pappas crabcakes feast Winfrey bought for the crew.)
Also this week, Lacks’ son Lawrence Lacks told The Baltimore Sun that the family wants compensation from Johns Hopkins University and potentially other institutions for the use of his mother’s cells.
The eldest son of Henrietta Lacks wants compensation from the Johns Hopkins University and possibly other institutions for the unauthorized use of her cells in research that led to decades of medical advances.
Lawrence Lacks said that he is the executor of his mother’s estate and that an agreement…
The eldest son of Henrietta Lacks wants compensation from the Johns Hopkins University and possibly other institutions for the unauthorized use of her cells in research that led to decades of medical advances.
Lawrence Lacks said that he is the executor of his mother’s estate and that an agreement…
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