But under the surface it just might be saying something, if not worthwhile, then at least not empty. With Zemeckis directing and Del Toro writing I was hoping it would lean into how dark the novel is, but the trailer … So, she’s migrating to television, starring in this fall’s Fox series Red Band Society, which debuts Sept. 17. Now, we’re seeing it a little more in blockbuster movies. I was talking with Patricia Arquette about film vs. television, and she mentioned how actresses of a certain age on film really seem to be given the cold shoulder, but there’s a home for them on TV and they’re able to play much richer parts. Not only does the little horror film star the “legitimate” actress Octavia Spencer, but it was written by comedy scribe Scotty Landes (“Workaholics”) and directed by Spencer’s friend (and The Help director) Tate Taylor (who also directed Get On Up and The Girl on the Train). A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Honey, I’ve done everything that he has ever, ever done—and he’s done a lot of stuff that people don’t know about. Ma is a psychopath, and her relentless stalking and smothering of the kids is terrifying. I was there with Melissa McCarthy, who was nominated for an Oscar; Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar; Tate Taylor, who directed The Help. That’s Tate Taylor’s butt—that big, gorgeous thigh with a lil’ butt cheek on top. The ‘Get On Up’ actress on why TV is more diverse than film, and how life has changed since winning her Oscar for ‘The Help.’, It’s been just over two years since Octavia Spencer, in a shimmering Tadashi Shoji gown that took a team of ten 1,000 hours to produce, glided up to the stage at the Hollywood and Highland Center to accept her Best Supporting Actress Oscar. I love you, bye. I’m barely 44, but that’s still the pasture, I guess. She’s sort of like the principal in The Breakfast Club. So this woman wins the trust of a parent-deficient teen crew by appealing to their dumbest instincts: buying them lots of alcohol and offering up her creaky basement as a no-questions-asked crash pad. It’s a business thing, and you have to change the mindset of people around here. In this case the Emma Stone role goes to Diana Silvers, whose doe-eyed high school student Maggie has just moved to town with her single mom (the overqualified Juliette Lewis). I act. There are some things that don’t need to be immortalized as long as they’re addressed. It seems as if all of the Hollywood elite want to get their faces into horror movies. So if I’m able to get a part that helps me stretch myself and evolve as an actress? Oh, I have terrible stage fright. That’s what I love about Red Band Society—we have Latin, Asian, black, gay, straight, and Indian cast members. I’m doing a TV series for Steven Spielberg called Red Band Society, and it’s the best pilot script I’ve ever read. That scene where Sandra Bullock gives Matthew the shot in his butt? And as long as the movies are as good as Ma, everyone should be fine with it. Look at what Shonda Rhimes is doing, what Orange Is the New Black is doing. But it’s not just black people. In the land of teenagers, the middle-aged are typically sexless, dumpy non-entities: their best years behind them, their present life only noteworthy inasmuch as they can be useful to the teenagers. Think about it: The hospital is the most diverse place ever. With Obama, the glass ceiling has been broken with what men can aspire to, and now we need to do the same for women and what women can aspire to. Yet one should probably not expect too much from a movie largely set in a single basement. If this is the best actor for that role, why does the role have to be indicative of a person’s ethnicity? He was Matthew McConaughey’s butt double. We Insist: A Timeline Of Protest Music In 2020. I don’t get that opportunity in movies, where they ask me, “Will you play the distraught mom of this boy?” I say, “Sure, but I’ve played it before.” I wanted to play against-type, and while people will say, “She’s playing a no-nonsense nurse,” there’s so much more to her than that. We were both PAs. It also makes sense that it is a Blumhouse film, as it fits the production house’s style like a glove. It’s gonna hurt my feelings one day when there’s not a part for me in one of his films! You should read for us!” But I was terrified. Hathaway looks amazing and Octavia Spencer and the kid are more likeable in that trailer than their counterparts in the full original movie. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It doesn’t happen to the Rachel Weiszs of the world, but to the Mo’Niques and Jennifer Hudsons and Octavia Spencers. After all, Spencer's famous persona is the stoic, put-upon matriarch, usually one in a position of service to others, and she's carried her weary frown and warm, easy hugs to awards glory in The Help, Fruitvale Station, Hidden Figures,and The Shape of Water... and for a while entered Typecast Valley with The Shack, Gifted, and on and on. Octavia Spencer stars as the vengeful Sue Ann in "Ma," directed by Tate Taylor. gap toothed celebrities. Oh my God, I haven’t seen it in years! It’s basically me, John C. Reilly, and Molly Shannon watching the TV and eating popcorn. But life is good. Why do you think the parts you’re being offered after winning an Oscar for your excellent performance The Help are, like you said, “too small to sink your teeth into?” This phenomenon seems to happen more to people of color who win the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. It’s hard to get films funded. I went on probably 600 commercial auditions and couldn't book any of them. Copyright © 2008 - 2030 FilmFracture - All Rights Reserved. But what I love about it is thank God for television, because you wouldn’t have the diversity. Universal Pictures But give them credit for allowing "Ma" to publicly lust after the 17-year-old lads. How has life changed for you since then? So I thought, “Well, hello! She’ll play Nurse Jackson, the overseer of a group of sick teenagers in a hospital’s pediatric ward—and is the outright lead. Well, the roles I’m being offered in film are too small to sink your teeth into, and I thought it was time to be able to live with a character at inception and travel with her to fruition, and allow myself to evolve as an actress. I read that you starred in a short film of his, Chicken Party, back in 2003? Hollywood is strange in and of itself. That may not seem like a recipe for horror greatness, but considering that the best horror movies of the last two years, A Quiet Place and Get Out, have come from the minds of comedians, well, Ma makes sense. And even if it is a film that could be led by a black actress, how many times is that film going to get funded? In fact, The Help was arguably the more disgusting movie, with its infamous pie scene, while Ma only gets around to blitzing its gross-out moments in the climax to trick us into thinking we were watching Saw. It’s an economical movie, simple in both its storyline and its execution, but packs a wallop with its startling reveals and its disturbing motivations. Ma Review Octavia Spencer sinks her teeth into her villain role with ‘Ma.’ Release Date: May 31, 2019 MPAA Rating: R Synopsis A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. There was a period where it just seemed like the actress would be stuck in the roles of mother or maid. Sign me up. I, Tonya’s Allison Janney also pops in for a few scenes as Sue Ann’s boss, a local veterinarian. And that's why Spencer's Sue Ann, a veterinarian's assistant in flower scrubs and an Anton Chigurh bowl cut, can worm her way into their lives so easily: these kids are just blank slates for her to manipulate as she sees fit. He did, too! The other stuff is all out there, and if they were going to re-create that, they wouldn’t have needed to make a movie. Review: 'Ma' Lets Octavia Spencer Take (And Take) Something For Herself After a career often spent in roles of kind caretakers, Octavia Spencer sinks her teeth into the part of a … First, we had Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert in the fantastic Greta. Paternal abuse is also treated like window dressing: a later plot twist directly evokes the true-life story of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, but doesn't quite think everything through.

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