Emma Stone & Viola Davis Deliver A Powerful Message In "The Help" (PHOTOS)

Emma Stone and Viola Davis star in this year's most powerful movie.

The Help takes place down south in Mississippi in the late 1960s, where segregation was at an all time high.

Emma plays Eugenia, who writes an anonymous book based on the stories that the African American maids told her about their white employees.

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Viola plays Aibileen, a maid who decided to speak up and tell her story, risking her job, her livelihood and possibly, her life. 

We had a chance to sit down with the two actresses to see how they felt about being a part of such a moving movie.

GlobalGrind: Let's talk about the importance of the story and what it meant for you to be involved in this.

Viola: It meant a lot. I just had a lot of stake in this story and this time period and educating people about what our history was in this country. And humanizing what people would just label as maids. Everyone just wants to say you are playing a maid and I just want to say, I’m playing Aibileen and Octavia is playing Minny and Aunjanue Ellis is playing Yule Mae and Cicely Tyson playing Constantine. We are people and we have names and we have heart, and humor and love and we have life.

I just think it’s important for people to understand that we indeed are human and we played a part in shaping history in a way in terms of raising these children when these women couldn’t. And in Mississippi of all places. Birthplace of the White Citizens Council, and the KKK and Emmitt Till, and the death of Medger Evers. And these incredible women were born out of that.

We love seeing this movie show strong women on both sides. We like the diversity because you don’t see that a lot.

Viola: You don’t, absolutely.

Emma: We were saying you don’t see this many well written female roles in anything. There are eight.

Viola: And they are different ages and races.