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  • In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer talks to Willie Geist about her “15-year overnight success” in Hollywood, from her claimed roles in “The Help” and “Hidden Figures.” Now starring in the Netflix series “Self Made,” she shares the advice she got as an intern from Whoopi Goldberg that related to a promise she made to her mother.
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  • @susanc257
    @susanc257 4 года назад +191

    I love Octavia Spencer. You can tell she’s such a good person by her personality. I love everything she’s in. Such talent.

    • @angeljohnson6665
      @angeljohnson6665 4 года назад +3

      Susan Cox yes

    • @soniapinkney1342
      @soniapinkney1342 4 года назад +4

      I agree...love that shes not a young beautiful skinny actress ... But the beauty is inside and out..
      So intelligent and articulate ..
      May God continue to Bless her..🌹😇🛐

    • @j.j.9511
      @j.j.9511 4 года назад

      Really? I saw an article from a few years ago where she was a total mitch at a book signing and people refunded their books and left.

    • @MrAQ-hi3yx
      @MrAQ-hi3yx 4 года назад

      Yeah she is a good actor.
      I have made a review on self made. Watch my channel

    • @phillipwilliam3450
      @phillipwilliam3450 3 года назад

      @@soniapinkney1342 I like her...she's got real,nice and Captivating movies though

  • @Honest000w
    @Honest000w 4 года назад +38

    This interviewer is good.... he seems genuinely interested in her👌🏾you can feel it. Authenticity makes a good interview👌🏾

  • @SamGiles
    @SamGiles 4 года назад +39

    Oh I just adore Octavia Spencer - immensely talented!

  • @tbee1575
    @tbee1575 4 года назад +22

    Great interview! I also appreciated him saying, "Then the LORD would show her..." That's right! Acknowledge the Father! 🙋🏾‍♀️

  • @aishasannishittu1634
    @aishasannishittu1634 4 года назад +19

    I love Octavia an I love how genuine the host is.

  • @mgillan5
    @mgillan5 4 года назад +54

    I watch the Netflix series last night and was awesome 👏

    • @sr9000
      @sr9000 4 года назад +1

      I did not like it because they lied about the daughter she was not a lesbian in real life and I'm so sick of Hollywood pushing their agenda in black movies just like in Black Lightning they pushing the homosexual agenda this movie is nothing to be proud of if you know the true history about madam CJ Walker and her daughter life madam CJ Walker daughter was married three times and she never had a homosexual relationship this was pure bulshit

    • @macewbee
      @macewbee 4 года назад

      @@sr9000 thank you

  • @imanibrooks-wheeler4059
    @imanibrooks-wheeler4059 4 года назад +15

    Wonderful interview! I love Octavia Spencer and I appreciate Willie Geist's media savvy and professionalism.

  • @MrMd217
    @MrMd217 4 года назад +39

    Something about her seems to put me at ease, like a long lost family member or something. ❤️her!

  • @teresaevans1481
    @teresaevans1481 4 года назад +9

    A 🌟 shines through her BEAUTY and talent shines. Octavia Spencer. Well done.

  • @slove7932
    @slove7932 4 года назад +15

    I love Ms.Spencer.Who else could play God,she is the best.Beautiful inside and out.

  • @gracec1665
    @gracec1665 4 года назад +11

    Octavia was excellent in the series! I binged watched the entire thing in one night. So inspiring!! Thank you.

    • @MrMd217
      @MrMd217 4 года назад

      Same! I ate it up! Lol

    • @JMissy205PAGE
      @JMissy205PAGE 4 года назад

      Me too. My Netflix is messing up but I will watch this again.

    • @fnihp30
      @fnihp30 4 года назад

      So did I....lol

  • @GodIsLove7377
    @GodIsLove7377 4 года назад +20

    She is SO beautiful 😍

  • @meditatewithme5189
    @meditatewithme5189 4 года назад +6

    She deserves all the awards for this! It's so good!

  • @SELFCAREMODEL
    @SELFCAREMODEL 4 года назад +1

    THANK YOU FOR INTERVIEWING HER WELL

  • @arizaphale
    @arizaphale 4 года назад +4

    Thank you Octavia for telling this important story.

  • @amour9027
    @amour9027 4 года назад +34

    How they gon pay her less and she was the Star??? Yea Netflix be on bs

    • @marneesha
      @marneesha 4 года назад +3

      Lamontane Bell and she’s an oscar winner.. like wtf?

    • @sr9000
      @sr9000 4 года назад +2

      That was the complaint of that comedian named Monique she was talking about how racist Netflix was and how she was underpaid and all the white people was paid all that money if I was Octavia Spencer I would have never done it

  • @R_Key_A
    @R_Key_A 4 года назад +2

    Awe this made me so emotional! I’m so happy for her and her success!! Keep on pushing ma’am. Keep on pushing.

  • @khulaniafrost8359
    @khulaniafrost8359 4 года назад +8

    Lol...I watched Self Made Friday and Ma last week. Today, I think I'm going to watch The Help again 😅

  • @Littlething41
    @Littlething41 4 года назад +4

    Such a great series and story that needed to be told!
    Even when someone tells you that you can't, tell yourself you should!

  • @proverbsthirty-one6531
    @proverbsthirty-one6531 4 года назад +31

    Who else finds themselves quoting from The Help. I love this movie.

    • @ghammekini1660
      @ghammekini1660 4 года назад

      Ydbubs Bubs I absolutely love this movie🙏 It’s my favorite❤️❤️❤️

    • @maggiemagoon9496
      @maggiemagoon9496 4 года назад

      The book is even funnier, seriously, but I loved the movie too!

    • @tbreezy543
      @tbreezy543 4 года назад

      Minnie dont burn chicken!

  • @SOI-wl2lo
    @SOI-wl2lo 4 года назад +2

    This was a wonderful interview. Really like this interviewer, thank you 🙏🏽

  • @marneesha
    @marneesha 4 года назад +2

    Octavia , you are a brilliant actress. ❤️💯

  • @jequannagriffin8
    @jequannagriffin8 4 года назад +4

    JESUS gone Lebron that brought me too tears hearing the support to make sure she recieved due compensation! Awesome actor love love love you!

  • @j.b.9260
    @j.b.9260 4 года назад +6

    She's so gorgeous.

  • @samuelt.kisaame7787
    @samuelt.kisaame7787 4 года назад +2

    She's got such a sweet personality and a very inspiring history.

  • @reneiloesongo4224
    @reneiloesongo4224 4 года назад +3

    Phenomenal actress!!

  • @suestenstream3041
    @suestenstream3041 4 года назад +6

    Loved her part in Mom!!

  • @xtcBEBOP
    @xtcBEBOP 4 года назад +5

    Terrific actress/artist!

  • @lashellhenry-maivia4464
    @lashellhenry-maivia4464 4 года назад +4

    I love her, she is such a excellent actress❤❤❤❤❤❤😍❤😍❤

  • @yeseniarodriguez6866
    @yeseniarodriguez6866 4 года назад +3

    Yes I just saw it yesterday love it I love to watch and learn about our history and the people who help shape the world wonderful job spencer

    • @estherstrategicadvisor749
      @estherstrategicadvisor749 4 года назад

      This is fictionalized though that's why they say "Inspired By." The other Black Louisiana lady was the first millionaire - Malone. It's TERRIBLE when people are given the impression a story is true only to RESEARCH and find out it's not. Octavia is a sweet & talented actress though.

  • @loveinthewebb6168
    @loveinthewebb6168 4 года назад +1

    She’s so talented !! Incredible !

  • @warkisalexandropolius4505
    @warkisalexandropolius4505 4 года назад +3

    Octavia you are my favorite woman movie star thank you so very much for being who you are and for pointing out so much in life thank you.

  • @alw1268
    @alw1268 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful and talented lady with such a beautiful soul. I adore her so much.

  • @HonieeLove4You
    @HonieeLove4You 4 года назад +2

    Such a great actress and beau
    tiful lady inside and out. I loved the Netflix series, Self Made.

  • @LifewithShamanda
    @LifewithShamanda 4 года назад +1

    Such an amazing interview! ❤️

  • @sgtdroxie
    @sgtdroxie 4 года назад +1

    Wonderful actress! I love her :-)

  • @iwnunn7999
    @iwnunn7999 4 года назад

    What a beautiful spirit and soul. Very moved by her story. Continued love, joy, and success to her!!

  • @agatarek_pl
    @agatarek_pl 4 года назад +1

    loved the series, love you Octavia

  • @reneezaia
    @reneezaia 4 года назад

    I absolutely adore this woman: talented, courageous, bold, loving, warm, funny, beautiful, compelling and inspirational. I loved her as Minnie in The Help and she did a stunning job of Madam CJ Walker in Self Made. Loved her smooth confidence and tenacity in Hidden Figures as well. What I also really love is when you look at her smaller roles, just how much sparkle she brought to the screen, like her role in SWAT - 'Just perpetuatin' a cycle you know!' LOL! She manifested that Oscar too: the thought about the Oscars - I just want to look all sparkly and win a prize, then she acted as if - I just held a hair brush and practiced my speech. Of course she put in the super hard work too. Whoopi tells a similar story about her Oscar win too. Love Octavia's tribute to her parents and in particular her mum, I was crying along with her. Love you Octavia xx

  • @crystalsherman8896
    @crystalsherman8896 4 года назад +9

    Olivia Spencer is an amazing actress! She and Viola, and Taraji P Henson need to win best actress awards.

    • @amo2962
      @amo2962 4 года назад +1

      And long overdue...Angela Bassett

    • @fancybrooks3156
      @fancybrooks3156 4 года назад +1

      It's "Octavia" Spencer.

    • @tspcocktail
      @tspcocktail 4 года назад +1

      Represent your own and reward them. That is easily done. No wait needed.

    • @crystalsherman8896
      @crystalsherman8896 4 года назад

      @@fancybrooks3156 I missed spelled her name by accident.

  • @thegreatoldones6553
    @thegreatoldones6553 4 года назад +3

    Get on Up Ma..🔥💗

  • @thekizerapproach
    @thekizerapproach 4 года назад +12

    Don’t forget about Annie Turnbo Malone.

    • @UXtatic
      @UXtatic 4 года назад

      And Mary Ellen Pleasant.

  • @Filthyrebel
    @Filthyrebel 4 года назад +2

    Love her so much!!

  • @lindagraham3346
    @lindagraham3346 4 года назад +4

    If something is advertised as, "and Octavia Spencer", I find it and watch it. She's just one of those actors that you know she chooses well.

  • @munequitamua5867
    @munequitamua5867 4 года назад +1

    I love this woman🌹❤

  • @sheab4119
    @sheab4119 4 года назад +1

    LOVE HER! bold of them not to even mention MA... her most iconic role..

  • @mugishagavin1181
    @mugishagavin1181 4 года назад +5

    This is interesting i was all tapped in

  • @James.Payne.
    @James.Payne. 4 года назад +2

    Great Interview!!!!!!

  • @ray-rayramirez4257
    @ray-rayramirez4257 4 года назад +1

    Love her. Susch a lady. I'm so happy for her success. I'll be hooked on Netflix now. 😄

  • @shaylaebert2545
    @shaylaebert2545 3 года назад

    Love Octavia Spencer! Good interview!

  • @i_draw_whatever18
    @i_draw_whatever18 2 года назад

    I just finished truth be told and she definitely deserves everything

  • @darlingsarah5243
    @darlingsarah5243 2 года назад

    "Everyone was BEAUTIFUL & Got Prizes...." She's too funny 🌹 wow

  • @Katee586
    @Katee586 4 года назад

    One of THE best actors out there today!!

  • @kuromikendall
    @kuromikendall 4 года назад +9

    doctor: “you have 8 minutes and 40 seconds left to live”
    me:

  • @_dakota_298
    @_dakota_298 3 года назад

    This was a really nice interview !

  • @pantonmuenchen854
    @pantonmuenchen854 3 года назад

    Blessings!!!!!!!!

  • @victoriabrooke7970
    @victoriabrooke7970 4 года назад +2

    What a beauty!

  • @cabanissmedia2751
    @cabanissmedia2751 4 года назад +5

    The Help looooooove that movie
    " EAT MY SH*T" CLASSIC 💜

  • @Djimonlife
    @Djimonlife 4 года назад +1

    Love her.

  • @SELFCAREMODEL
    @SELFCAREMODEL 4 года назад +1

    SO BEAUTIFUL

  • @mommadw2010
    @mommadw2010 4 года назад +1

    Just beautiful and blessed, I say you are my role model. I am so proud of all your accomplishments.

  • @Anointed012
    @Anointed012 4 года назад +6

    is'nt it amazing how black people still achieve despite being oppressed ? The first self made famale millionaire in america as a black women in the 20th cen that's amazing.

    • @namastewellness
      @namastewellness 4 года назад

      Imagine if more of us tapped into our power without selling our souls?

    • @Anointed012
      @Anointed012 4 года назад +2

      Saimazing Life , We actually did , a lot of our business ventures were destroyed and stolen. I recall my grandpa telling me how we were made to not start businesses because of white people being threatened. We created many cities in this country that they stole and destroyed because of their envy and jealousy. #Reparations

    • @MrMd217
      @MrMd217 4 года назад +1

      It is phenomenal! The true meaning of inspirational!

  • @emilystevens6335
    @emilystevens6335 4 года назад

    Love Octavia. She never makes a bad movie.

  • @neishacolon6513
    @neishacolon6513 4 года назад

    Very well spoken and intelligent women 👏🏻

  • @jpreston4505
    @jpreston4505 4 года назад

    Self Made is really good. Wow worth watching for sure. Amazing story.

  • @darksidedemond2bean825
    @darksidedemond2bean825 4 года назад

    Miss Dale would be so proud of her right now I know she would

  • @JoJo-yz3po
    @JoJo-yz3po 4 года назад

    Beautiful🙏🏾

  • @msarrington27
    @msarrington27 4 года назад

    I love her!

  • @aminah761
    @aminah761 4 года назад +1

    Hope she gets a Oscar

  • @bobedwards7455
    @bobedwards7455 4 года назад

    OCTAVIA SPENCER and OLIVIA COLMAN....AMAZING

  • @cherylbremson2421
    @cherylbremson2421 4 года назад +2

    I love you Octavia Spencer! Hope you win an emmy and golden globe for CJ Walker

    • @MovieJustin
      @MovieJustin 4 года назад +1

      She has to, she was brilliant.

    • @fnihp30
      @fnihp30 4 года назад

      Do they issue awards for Netflix productions?

    • @MovieJustin
      @MovieJustin 4 года назад

      Lol yes

    • @cherylbremson2421
      @cherylbremson2421 4 года назад

      @@fnihp30 yes for sure!

  • @tryingtohit10kwithoutconte51
    @tryingtohit10kwithoutconte51 4 года назад +1

    i was all tapped in

  • @bratofer21
    @bratofer21 4 года назад +1

    I like the small part she played in blue streak with Martin Laurence.

  • @faafafineartist
    @faafafineartist 4 года назад

    I love her.

  • @eliani1326
    @eliani1326 4 года назад

    inspirational

  • @angelmatos9143
    @angelmatos9143 4 года назад

    She is an acting giant!

  • @tti3360
    @tti3360 4 года назад

    🌻

  • @dianearaujo2934
    @dianearaujo2934 4 года назад

    Essa atriz é extraordinária

  • @noaccount7595
    @noaccount7595 3 года назад

    Oh my God she's a good at acting

  • @brownin329
    @brownin329 4 года назад +1

    No one is self made. Everyone had help.

  • @makiba9461
    @makiba9461 4 года назад +1

    Madam's daughter, Leila Robinson, was not a lesbian. After, she divorced her first husband, she married three more times to men. Dr. James A.Kennedy was her last husband.
    Annie Munroe, the mixed female in the movie's real name was Annie Pope-Turnbo who actually hired Madam as a salesperson, eventually they did have a disagreement. It is said that Annie invented the hot comb.
    Both Madame and her husband, Charles Joseph, were very ambitious. no one above the other.
    Read the book On her Own Time by Madam's great granddaughter and check out the video on the link below:
    ruclips.net/video/02DsLwbyyXc/видео.html

  • @thesprtsspeciaist4192
    @thesprtsspeciaist4192 4 года назад

    We need more women writers directors producers......more women stories told directed produced by women. Octavia Spencer and other women actors need more roles!!

  • @Danuta628
    @Danuta628 4 года назад

    Sooo gooD !!! Madame CJ Walker accomplishments should be taught in every classroom as well as the accomplishments of the NASA mathematicians whom Hidden Figures were based on !!

  • @tionamos9402
    @tionamos9402 4 года назад +1

    This film is the latest effort to rewrite the history of FBA. Foundational Black Americans must tell our on stories and not allow these propagandist to disrespect our black icons.

  • @timothylawson3262
    @timothylawson3262 4 года назад +2

    Lebron James is a all around good man, keep up the good work King James.

  • @sassyintrovert
    @sassyintrovert 4 года назад +1

    I appreciate the contribution of ALL included in this movie. However, i wish they would've focused on the truth as well. Very aware that it was inspired by MADAM CJ WALKER'S life. Nonetheless, I'm sure it would've been better to hear about 2 self made millionaires whom were black women.

  • @catboyzee
    @catboyzee 4 года назад

    Her eyes though...

  • @szatanowska
    @szatanowska 4 года назад

    PSALM RESPONSORYJNY:
    Ps 30,2 i 4.5-6.11-12a i 13b
    Sławię Cię, Panie, bo mnie wybawiłeś
    i nie pozwoliłeś mym wrogom naśmiewać się ze mnie.
    Panie, mój Boże, z krainy umarłych wywołałeś moją duszę
    i ocaliłeś mi życie spośród schodzących do grobu. Śpiewajcie psalm wszyscy miłujący Pana
    i pamiętajcie o Jego świętości.
    Gniew Jego trwa tylko przez chwilę
    a Jego łaska przez całe życie.
    Płacz nadchodzi z wieczora, a rankiem wesele. Wysłuchaj mnie, Panie, zmiłuj się nade mną,
    Panie, bądź moją pomocą.
    Zamieniłeś w taniec mój żałobny lament;
    i Boże mój i Panie, będę Cię sławił na wieki.

  • @thanksforanotherbadhaircut1211
    @thanksforanotherbadhaircut1211 4 года назад +1

    Love this actress but just could not stick with this.

  • @ahmadahmed214
    @ahmadahmed214 3 года назад

    Wakanda coped that from the africans in Egypt or kemit. Which means it didn't come from the movie. Read ancient African history and y'all will understand.

  • @bipolarpaparazzi4204
    @bipolarpaparazzi4204 4 года назад

    How was she "self made"?

    • @namastewellness
      @namastewellness 4 года назад

      Did you watch the film?

    • @aminah761
      @aminah761 4 года назад

      Tonya Browning watch the movie 🤬

    • @bipolarpaparazzi4204
      @bipolarpaparazzi4204 4 года назад

      Which one?

    • @groundfleur8774
      @groundfleur8774 4 года назад +1

      Self made is the movie

    • @lifehappens9557
      @lifehappens9557 4 года назад +1

      Read her story. This movie isn't accurate at all.
      She was really the 1st FEMALE MILLIONAIRE by earning her own wages.
      She basically created door to door salesmanship.
      And so much more.
      This MOVIE was a LIE

  • @PaisleyMoon2022
    @PaisleyMoon2022 4 года назад +1

    I like Octavia Spencer but Self Made was garbage. So many unnecessary lies were told in that movie.

    • @mckenzie.8653
      @mckenzie.8653 4 года назад

      Paisley Moon octavia was better than the movie for sure. But happy it got made either way.

    • @PaisleyMoon2022
      @PaisleyMoon2022 4 года назад +1

      @@mckenzie.8653 I was hopeful with black writers and producers it was going to be more historically accurate. Now the masses will believe the miniseries was factual. Seeing Tiffany Haddish shuck and jive throughout the movie made me nauseous. What was the purpose of letting everyone think that Addy (who's real name is Annie Turnbo Malone) didn't hire Madame CJ Walker because she had dark skin, when the truth is she was actually one of her sales women? Annie Turnbo Malone was actually a self made millionaire as well. This movie represented her like she was thristy and rachet. If she was my ancestor I would be very upset. That's one thing that's wrong with the world now, most prefer to be entertained by lies instead of knowing the truth. So I can't agree with you that at least it got made.

  • @HIMOTHYBULL
    @HIMOTHYBULL 4 года назад

    I am attracted to otavia she is Soo cute...

  • @darlene1waters
    @darlene1waters 4 года назад

    Octavia Spencer is awesome. I love to watch her perform.
    Viola Davis, however, is ridiculously overrated, like Meryl Streep.

    • @dpcisunbreakable
      @dpcisunbreakable 3 года назад

      You're free to think that, but what actresses could execute the body of work of either?

  • @j.j.9511
    @j.j.9511 4 года назад

    Octavia Spencer is the modern day Hattie McDaniel. And both have zero talent and big egos. And LeBron having part in this anti black, LGBT bs is not shocking

  • @lf1496
    @lf1496 4 года назад

    This was an awful series. It smeared Madame Walker, having her character falsely admit that she stole the formula for her hair famous hair ointment. This was a complete historical fabrication. The story also created this ficticious cartoon like rivalry between Madame and an odious light skinned almost white female business rival. In reality Madam Walker had a mentor who she worked for and had a very good relationship with. So this storyline was a complete lie. The emphasis on colorism was nausiating. The obsession with light skinned black women and the light skinned beauty paradym, seemed to be more of the writer working out her own psychological baggage and not Madame Walker's story. These plantation ideas of "good hair" "light is right" was promoted in the piece to be a given truth. These ignorant ideals were so important to the writer that she spent the majority of the story highlighting it. It was troubling as a parent of children of color to see these ideas being reinforced as truth under the guise of "reflecting the thought of the time". This was a horrible biopic, one that is not worth watching at all. I made my daughters leave the room, not wanting to poison their minds with ignorant plantation ideals. It's one thing to show it as it was (which she didn't) but it's another thing to believe the same ignorance that was given to black people to destroy us (which the writer certainly does) Poorly done.

    • @taharqa332
      @taharqa332 4 года назад

      la mulata linda Martinez How did you feel about the her daughter’s lesbian relationship? Those were lies as well.

    • @j.j.9511
      @j.j.9511 4 года назад

      You notice the main ones loving this series are white women and race traitors.

    • @dpcisunbreakable
      @dpcisunbreakable 3 года назад

      @@j.j.9511 So to like a mini-series make me a race-traitor, from your reply. So does your dislike of this movie qualify you as a hotep?

  • @1975MISS
    @1975MISS 4 года назад

    These comments are so typical..
    "I love Olivia " " Olivia is the best"..
    Lol..
    She's horrible..a true sell out indeed..

    • @dpcisunbreakable
      @dpcisunbreakable 3 года назад

      How so? Do you allow the entire black community to stop your 💰💰💰?

  • @jasonmurphy9855
    @jasonmurphy9855 4 года назад

    Oprah and epsteain and them.......storm of Q pain. Q