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Octavia Spencer doesn't just take any role. The actress has been steadily working for over two decades and has lent her talents to films like The Help (for which she won an Oscar), and both starred in and produced moving films like 2013's Fruitvale Station. What drew her to the sci-fi film Insurgent? We had to find out.
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00:07What kind of drew you to this character?
00:09Joanna has her own ideas and she has her own way of thinking.
00:13So this is such a star-studded cast of women.
00:15Why do you think that many female-led films tend to be in the science fiction genre?
00:21I think it's important for there to be more of us and for there to be more of them.
00:27So you're an Academy Award winner. Do you think that more doors opened for you after you won for the
00:32help?
00:32Oh, absolutely. My career changed a thousand times fold.
00:38Did you guys have any hilarious moments on set or anything that kind of stood out?
00:42Well, I think it was hilarious that we were filming in Atlanta and one minute it's raining and the next
00:47minute it's not.
00:49It was hilarious how we dealt with that. It was kind of crazy.
00:54It was also very hot. But we had a good time. It's a good fun group.
00:58Mmmmm.

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