The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Page #2

Synopsis: An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Director(s): George C. Wolfe
Production: HBO Films
  Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
93 min
1,878 Views


late Monday afternoon

'cause usually I'm out

running with my grandchildren.

Now, what'd you say your name was?

Rebecca, Rebecca Skloot. You can call me...

Mail!

Deborah?

Deborah? Okay.

Hello?

Deborah, hi. It's Rebecca.

Can't talk.

Oh, well, shall I call back in, say...

Done talking.

My brother say I ought to

write a book myself.

But I ain't no writer.

Can't talk to you.

Why can't you talk to me?

Did somebody... Deborah?

Talk to the men.

Sonny, Lawrence.

Deborah, if you'd just give me a chance,

I can...

We could spend some time together and...

I don't want to get hurt again.

So, I'm here in Baltimore in a parking lot,

waiting for Sonny Lacks to show up

and hopefully take me to introduce me

to the rest of the family.

And I'm really hoping that Deborah might...

Might be there, but...

Oh. That's...

Oh, my God, he's actually here.

Yeah, I told you that I'll be passing.

Hi.

I will be over there. All right, okay, bye.

- Miss Rebecca!

- Hey.

- Happy New Year.

- Happy New Year.

Uh, you're a very hard man to track down.

I'm a busy man, Miss Rebecca.

- I'm a very busy man.

- That's good.

- No, it's not.

- No?

Here, come on.

Oh. Oh, okay, well, let me just get my stuff.

Is Deborah gonna be there today?

No. Lawrence will check you out.

He'll decide what's what.

- Okay.

- I told you I'm in a meeting.

I'm in my car.

You can have a meeting in the car.

It's a mobile office.

Do you mind if I turn this on,

- so I could...

- No, no.

Go ahead, go ahead.

Trying to find something on the radio.

Your cell phone always ring that much?

Ripping and running, Miss Rebecca.

Ripping and running.

So, what's the earliest memory

you have of your mother?

Well, I hear she was pretty.

Lawrence the only one

old enough to really remember.

Me, Dale, Zakariyya,

we got no memories at all.

Lawrence was a teenager?

Mmm-hmm. He was around 15.

Zakar-ree-ah?

Changed his name in prison.

Good thing he ain't here

to hear you mispronouncing it.

I'm just messing with you.

So, here's where we take

scientists and reporters

who wanna know about our mother

so the whole family can gang up on them.

Now, you seem nice enough,

so I won't go get Zakariyya.

- Here you go.

- Thank you.

- Which house exactly does Lawrence live in?

- Good luck.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello? Anybody...

Come on in.

I'm Rebecca. Rebecca Skloot.

Wanna taste the meat I cook?

Now, my wife thinks I cook them too long.

How could I resist?

Uh, Lawrence, do you mind if I...

Sonny was telling me you're the only sibling

who has any memory of your mother...

I blacked out most of my memory

because of the sadness and hurting.

I found this cool thing. Um...

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Rebecca Skloot

Rebecca L. Skloot (born September 19, 1972) is a freelance science writer who specializes in science and medicine. Her first book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010), was one of the best-selling new books of 2010, staying on The New York Times Bestseller list for over 6 years and eventually reaching #1. It was made into a movie by George C. Wolfe, which premiered on HBO on April 22, 2017 and starred Rose Byrne as Skloot. more…

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