Career Help

Chris Lowell (TV's "Private Practice) is in negotiations to join the cast of the racial drama "The Help" says Reuters.

Based upon Kathryn Stockett's book that explores the the complicated use by the upper class matriarchs of their servants in the American South of the early 1960's.

The story follows Skeeter Phelan (Emma Stone), a white recent college graduate uncomfortable with the current social norms of Mississippi at the time - a time when black maids did all the work and received no respect. Her plan is to write a book detailing the life of the various maids in the area, but her research soon uncovers not just racism but cruelty and criminal action by white society women, some of them even her friends.
Viola Davis is playing the role of Aibileen, a maid whom aspiring writer Phelan candidly interviews. That interview sets off shock waves that reverberate across the entire community as it uncovers not just racism but cruelty and criminal action by white society women.

Lowell plays Skeeter's boyfriend, Stuart Whitworth, a senator's son who eventually breaks up with her because of the book.

Bryce Dallas Howard co-stars

Tate Taylor is directing and adapted the script
Taylor, Brunson Green, Michael Barnathan, Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe will produce the pic.
Filming kicks off this summer in Mississippi.
It's a good thing Lowell get this movie since he's now done with his TV gig...