TV: ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ premieres this week
April 6th, 2008
From the Washington Post:
The television production of the Kim Edwards novel, about a father who rejects his newborn daughter with Down syndrome, includes actors with Down syndrome.
[Executive producer Howard] Braunstein said he consulted with various Down syndrome groups to find the actors. He called the film “an enormously positive message for Down children.”
“The movie starts with the ignorance of the doctor, who calls them Mongoloids, and then you see Caroline, who is so determined for Phoebe to have a good life,” Braunstein said.
Actress Gretchen Mol (above) described Krystal Hope Nausbaum, who portrays Phoebe from age 13 to 22, as “such a force.”
“All I had to do was look at her face and the way she beamed back at me; she just had this part completely,” Mol said.
“When you look at that Down baby, you wonder how [society] could have pushed this whole group of people off the world. These people [with Down syndrome] were the magic spot in this film.”
If only Braunstein and Mol had learned to say “children with Down syndrome” instead of “Down children.”
Also starring Emily Watson and Dermot Mulroney. The show airs Saturday at 9 on Lifetime.
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