Octavia Spencer Believed in Herself Even When Hollywood Didn’t

On a gilded morning in mid-June, the actress Octavia Spencer, 56, sat at a table in a hotel restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. In a tweed blazer over a snow-white blouse, she radiated a kind of soft, expensive power. Waiters hovered constantly, checking on the quality of her smoked salmon, offering a...

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