‘The Help’s’ road to the big screen started with a childhood friendship

If Tate Taylor had not chucked stones at a preschool classmate 35 years ago, the movie adaptation of "The Help" might never have happened.

The target of Taylor's teasing that day at Covenant Presbyterian preschool in Jackson, Miss., was 5-year-old Kathryn Stockett.

"We were getting our pictures taken and her eyes were disproportionate to her little body," Taylor, now 42, explains during a recent interview at a Georgetown hotel, his Southern twang coming through full blast. "I think I made fun of her. I think I threw rocks at her that day, as she tells it. And we just became friends."

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Paul Kane 05 Aug, 2011

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