“There’s more than the five or six of us,” the actor told BuzzFeed News. “There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.”
Octavia Spencer poses for a portrait during Fox's 2014 Summer TCA Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 20, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Octavia Spencer took off the high-heeled shoes she'd been strutting around in for much of the day, and slid into some flip-flops before sinking into a comfortable chair in a suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
It had been a long day. And it was far from over.
In the middle of promoting her latest movie, Insurgent, the sequel to Divergent, news broke that the 44-year-old actor had signed on to play God in the film adaptation of William P. Young's best-selling novel, The Shack, which starts shooting next month.
"I'm excited and terrified all at the same time," Spencer said, after giving her feet a quick massage and waving off a compliment about how great she looks ("Lots of underwear, honey. I'm not going to lie to you.") "I mean, Morgan Freeman has played God how many times? And he's amazing in every incarnation of God."
"I'm playing a manifestation of God," she continued. "But I also know, going into the role, from my upbringing as a Christian, that God made us in his form, so I will be playing God in human form," said Spencer, who hails from the bible-thumping Montgomery, Alabama.
A deity is the latest in the list of varied characters the actor has taken on since she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for her performance as hip-shooting maid Minny Jackson in The Help — we've seen Spencer play Wanda in the emotional and gripping Fruitvale Station; she's worked the small screen as a take-no-prisoners nurse in Fox's late children's hospital drama Red Band Society; and she pulls off the intricate and ethereal Johanna, the leader of a peaceful, culturally diverse commune, in Insurgent.
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