Jessica Chastain Wants ‘The Help’ Sequel With Octavia Spencer, Says She Didn’t ‘Mine That Much Material’ in First Film as a Supporting Actor By Zack Sharf. Plus Icon.

If you are uncomfortable watching The Help, that's appropriate, says actress Octavia Spencer: "People lived this discomfort." Spencer, who plays an African-American maid in 1960s Mississippi ...

Octavia Spencer interview: The Help star and Oscar winner on becoming James Brown's aunt Spencer: 'Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace but I wouldn ...

Actress Octavia Spencer said Tuesday that the 2011 hit film "The Help" would be difficult to make in today's sociopolitical climate, telling celebrity restaurateur Bruce Bozzi while appearing on ...

Matt Sayles/AP/Shutterstock . Octavia Spencer and her The Help costar Sissy Spacek go way back.. The Oscar winner revealed on an episode of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast released last week that ...

Love was in the air Thursday as Octavia Spencer got the 2,742nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ... I wanted to work with her,” Janney said. The two would go on to do “The Help” together.

Octavia Spencer Says 'The Help' Costar Sissy Spacek 'Actually' Remembered Her After Interning on Her Film at 17. The Oscar winner worked as an intern on the 1990 film The Long Walk Home, ...

Octavia Spencer, the Academy Award-winning actress notable for her roles in The Help, Fruitvale Station, and Hidden Figures, has had a history of taking jabs at ongoing global issues — from The ...

Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer is taking the lead on the small screen, producing and starring in “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker.” In Netflix’s four-part limited ...