Hella Lives

The story is adapted from the documentary literature by Rebecca Skloot. The title character, Henrietta Lacks, was a black woman suffering from cancer in the 1950s. In 1951, medical researchers illegally harvested cancer cells from her body, which resulted in a shocking medical breakthrough that not only changed the fate of many people, but even changed the entire medical field. Henrietta Lacks' cells were said to have been used to create the first "immortal" human stem cells - still alive a week after being implanted. The protagonist of the play is Deborah Lacks (Oprah Winfrey), the daughter of Henrietta Lacks, who is trying to understand a mother she has never met and study her strange connection with the development of modern medicine. The plot profoundly exposes the arrogance, arrogance, race, poverty and other issues in the medical community, and at the same time provides an in-depth analysis of how "the most unlikely friends" can establish the "deepest friendship." Rose Byrne plays Rebecca Skloot, a young female reporter who is investigating the story of Henrietta Lacks and her "immortal" cells. she