The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged...
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know...
So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.