Octavia Spencer interview
Seacrest interviews Spencer during On Air With Ryan Seacrest about her staring role in the TV show Red Band Society.
It takes place in this world-class pediatric hospital. It’s a really coming-of-age story and there’s a bond that all of these kids share. They all have some type of illness, but at the center of it all, they’re all teenagers, and they want to just be teenagers. They want to do things that teenagers do. And a lot of them like to break rules, so then you have to have people like myself keeping them in line.
Get On Up
Spencer plays Aunt Honey, James Brown’s aunt, who raises him after he is abandoned by his mother, in Tate Taylor’s Get On Up. The movie explores the “tough love” relationship between the pair and how it contributes to Brown’s rise from poverty to music stardom. Co-starring Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis, Jill Scott, and Dan Aykroyd.
She doesn’t use him. She lets him know that if he’s going to be under her roof, that he has to be a contributing member of the household. When you have mouths to feed, everybody has to contribute. At the end of the day, she did take this child in, and she already had the women there that she had to take care of, and their kids. So, she could have easily said, ‘No.’
Wins Oscar
Spencer wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 84th Academy Awards for her portrayal of Minnie Jackson in The Help.
Thank you Academy for giving me the hottest guy in the room. I share this with everybody.
Oscar nomination
0 CommentsSpencer is nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 84th Academy Awards for portraying Minny Jackson in The Help.
We screamed at every nomination, and for people like Melissa McCarthy, and for everyone we knew.
The Help
Spencer plays Minny Jackson, an African-American maid living and working in 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi in Tate Taylor’s The Help based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett. The Help tells the story of African-American maids and how they view their white employers as recorded by a young, white, female author. Co-starring Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, and Allison Janney.
I think the “The Help” reminds us of our humanity. And it’s socially relevant even today. I think you can substitute the plight of the African-Americans and their quest for civil rights with homosexuals wanting the right to marry. Revolutions usually happen when the underserved or underclass find their situation no longer tenable. Look at Occupy Wall Street fighting for the shrinking middle class and poor, you know what I mean?