
Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Help alongside Emma Stone. Spencer has also appeared in Hidden Figures, The Shape of Water, Fruitvale Station, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, and Instant Family. She starred in and produced the Apple Original series Truth Be Told and produced the film Ma. Spencer collaborated with Ryan Reynolds in the Apple Original Film Spirited.
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- The Mike Hosking Breakfast Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer: Actresses discuss starring in and the making of ‘Ride or Die’

Two powerhouse actresses are leading one of Prime Video’s next big TV shows. ‘Ride or Die’ is an action comedy about a couple of best friends who have to go on the run after one of them is revealed to be an international assassination. It stars Hannah Waddingham, of ‘Ted Lasso’ fame, and Octavia Spencer, Academy Award winner for ‘The Help’, as Judith Burton and Debbie Claybourne. Though this is the first project the two have worked on together, Spencer says the way they fell into a rhythm was seamless. “We were the only two people thought of for our roles, and then we both are active producers,” she told Hosking. “We are vested in this from different vantage points, so it was easy.” Waddingham agreed, telling Hosking they didn’t have to think about that bit at all. “There was no kind of work required to find the chemistry – it was just there in spades.” Waddingham was approached directly for the role by Spencer and the show’s creator Tessa Coates, Spencer saying they knew she was going to be as committed as she was. “There’s nothing about that role that no one thought that Hannah would not be able to do." “I mean, it’s a role of a lifetime, and my character is a role of my career,” Spencer told Hosking. “And we both are playing characters that we've never, they're complete departures from anything that we've done. Unsurprisingly, ‘Ride or Die’ is filled with action sequences and stunt work – none of which, Waddingham says, is CGI. “I’ve got the bruises to prove it.” “If I was going to get on board with this woman [Spencer] and with Tessa Coates, with this glorious piece of work, I wasn’t going to be the weak link.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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- May 25, 1970