As Octavia Spencer celebrated landing a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Hidden Figures alum had a tender moment with Allison Janney.
To be fair, working with Octavia Spencer must be a dream job of its own.
Octavia Spencer doesn't have any bad performances. But what are her best ones? You're about to find out.
In addition to the shocking news that The Witches is skipping theaters and going straight to HBO Max this month, the first trailer for the highly anticipated new film has now been released online. Directed and co-written by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future), this new adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic takes place in 1960s Alabama and follows a young boy (Jahzir Bruno) and his grandmother as they encounter a coven of witches while on vacation. They must subsequently team up to stop the witches from enacting their evil plan of turning all children into mice, which is …
Emmy winner Riz Ahmed and Oscar winner Octavia Spencer have signed on to star in the sci-fi thriller Invasion from Michael Pearce, the writer-director of 2017's Beast. Amazon Studios has acquired worldwide rights to the project and will produce alongside RAW and Film 4, which financed development. Pearce co-wrote the script with Joe Barton (The Ritual). Deadline broke the news, reporting that production is expected to start later this year. Ahmed will play a decorated Marine who goes on the run with his two sons as he tries to protect them from a non-human threat. …
Are there too many streaming services? Too much content fighting for our attention? Perhaps. But if a ton of supply means there's more room at the table for stories like Self Made: Inspired By the Life of Madam C.J. Walker to be told on widely watched platforms like Netflix, we're all the better for it. The story of Walker is beyond inspiring, beyond thrilling, and beyond necessary for all of us to know about. Unfortunately, the actual storytelling mechanisms of Self Made move much too bluntly and quickly to make the powerful impact I wish it had …
Let me start by saying that I am absolutely the wrong person to be writing about Netflix's new limited series, Self Made. The story tells the real-life tale of an African-American woman who defied all manner of conventions to become a self-made millionaire through the sale of haircare products for Black women. The closest I've come to understanding any of that very personal and culturally important space is from watching the Oscar-winning short Hair Love, so I leave it to the new trailer for Self-Made to tell the tale way better than I …
Madam C.J. Walker is one of the most quintessentially American figures who ever lived. In a historical time fraught with post-slavery racial biases, sexism, and social regression, Walker built a business dedicated to the underserved market of African-American hair care, and became the first female self-made millionaire in the process. Now, Octavia Spencer is telling her story in a four-part Netflix original series: Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. And we've got the first look for the series. Spencer, who also produced the series (alongside LeBron James!), stars as …
The Apple TV+ original drama Truth Be Told follows Poppy Parnell (Octavia Spencer, who’s also an executive producer on the series), a podcaster who has dug back into a murder case that made her a national sensation. While coming face-to-face with the man (Aaron Paul) she may have mistakenly helped to put behind bars, in order to figure out the truth in her pursuit of justice, she must also deal with demons in her own family. During the show’s Los Angeles press day, co-stars Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul talked about the fascination with true …
Apple TV releases a new Truth Be Told trailer, the upcoming legal drama starring Octavia Spencer, Aaron Paul, and Lizzy Caplan.
Today, Apple TV+ released the first trailer for one of their upcoming programs, Truth Be Told. And it looks to be a good one. Like many great stories, the catalyst in this series is a murder. Then, the real story comes in the aftermath, The series stars Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer as a podcast host whose earlier efforts helped seal the fate of a young man. A heinous act was committed years ago, but this whodunit is really getting underway nearly two decades after the fact. Now, questions are raised suggesting she may have had the wrong guy. [caption …
Octavia Spencer and Naomi Watts talk about their provocative new movie, Luce, about a teenage boy and the doubt surrounding his rage and sanity!
From director Tate Taylor and screenwriter Scotty Landes, the Blumhouse Productions horror-thriller Ma follows town local Sue Ann (Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer), a loner who typically keeps to herself, until the day that a teenager who’s new in town (Diana Silvers) asks for help in buying some booze for her and her friends. When Sue Ann, who becomes known as Ma, offers these high school kids the basement of her home to hang out and drink in, they not only take her up on it but they also start to break the rules that she sets, pushing …
The director took us on a journey through the development of the film.
Who doesn't love Octavia Spencer? The journeyman actress has been keeping busy in the business for decades, but since taking hom her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 2011's The Help, she's been knocking it out of the park with a string of awards contenders and critical darlings including Fruitvale Station, Hidden Figures, and The Shape of Water. She's one of the best actresses working right now, and she almost always plays a good guy, but with her latest film, the Oscar-winner is getting creepy. Blumhouse is about to turn our love for the actress against …