There are conflicting reports about Octavia Spencer’s age online. Some outlets say her birthday is May 25, 1972, meanwhile, others report that it’s on May 25, 1970. But the Academy Award-winning actress decided to come clean on the big 50th. “Hey y’all! I’m sitting out here in the backyard drinking some sangria, eating some potato […]
Comedian Tiffany Haddish, Blair Underwood, and Garrett Morris will join Octavia Spencer in the Netflix limited series, Madam CJ Walker. Haddish will play Lelia, the daughter of Sarah Breedlove and her late first husband. Blair Underwood will play Charles James Walker, Sarah’s husband, who supports her and helps her run her hair care line. Advertisement […]
Not known for her ability to scare viewers, award-winning actress Octavia Spencer Spencer takes her talents to a new horror thriller and might feel the same after watching the Ma trailer that just dropped. Spencer stars as Sue Ann, a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked […]
LeBron James hasn’t had his hand in Hollywood for long, but he’s already making positive impacts. Octavia Spencer revealed that he was a helping force in her getting equal pay in the upcoming Madam C.J. Walker biopic. During the Sundance Film Festival, the Oscar-winning actress told the crowd that the NBA superstar had to speak […]
Netflix has officially picked up a limited series directed by Octavia Spencer and LeBron James about the first Black female self-made millionaire in America, Madam C.J. Walker, Variety reports. The media service provider made the announcement on Sunday during a press tour. Spencer is set to star in the series (whose title has yet to […]
Television is adding more #BlackGirlMagic in the near future, as new reports reveal that a TV series to the 2016 film Hidden Figures is in development at National Geographic. In the report by Variety, Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are producing the Nat Geo series. Chernin and Topping also directed the film, which was nominated for […]
Following two consecutive years of failing to adequately acknowledge diversity in film, it seems that The Academy has finally gotten the memo–or at least begun to do so. Tuesday morning [January 23, 2017] a total of six African-American films were thrust into the running for this year’s Oscars along with their dominating Black casts. The usual […]
Hollywood starlet Taraji P. Henson attended the Chicago International Film Festival, talking her new role as NASA’s math genius, space scientist and American physicist Katherine Johnson, at a panel discussion. AMC Theater, the Streeterville theater located in downtown Chicago, hosted the red carpet event, where media and ticket holders previewed 25-minutes of 20th Century Fox’s new film, […]
Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer have joined forces to teach us a part of history many of us never knew. Based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s upcoming book of the same title, Hidden Figures, tells the untold true story of the three Black women who helped launch the first American astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Despite being NASA […]
The true story of the black women who served as mathematicians during NASA’s race to space are having their stories being told on film in a new production by 20th Century Fox. Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) portray the brilliant African-American women who were the […]
America has been taking strides to better the unequally structured justice system. With a change in society comes a change in Hollywood. The industry and actors struggling against being typecast have made an effort to change how things are done. They are asking for more roles for African-Americans, lead roles for African-American women and more. The […]
After leaving us all hanging off a balcony anticipating the next season of Empire, Taraji P. Henson has already landed a new role drastically different from her Golden Globe winning performances as Cookie Lyon. Henson is starring in a new movie titled Hidden Figures alongside Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer. Henson plays Katherine Johnson, a […]
Insurgent took New York by storm.
“Black or White” is the story of a grandfather (Academy Award winner Kevin Costner) who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter. When her paternal grandmother (Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer) seeks custody with the help of her brother (Anthony Mackie), the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply.
