Dec 21, 2012…
via indieWire:
“Scheduled to make its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival next month is the Ryan Coogler-directed indie drama Fruitvale, which stars Octavia Spencer, Michael B. Jordan, Tristan Wilds and Melonie Diaz. Based the murder of 22-year old Oscar Grant (played by Jordan in the film) - Fruitvale is produced by Forest Whitaker” see more here…
![Octavia Spencer for ELLE [Nov 2012].On standing up for herself:“Early on I had to stand up to a producer – I won’t say who, but he is famous, famous. He dressed me down in a crowded office. I told him right there in front of a hundred people, ‘You don’t know me well enough to use that tone,’ and then I ran to the bathroom and cried like a baby. But he never addressed me that way again. And he is known as a yeller.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbc064xXET1r9c36po1_400.jpg)
Octavia Spencer
for ELLE [Nov 2012].On standing up for herself:
“Early on I had to stand up to a producer – I won’t say who, but he is famous, famous. He dressed me down in a crowded office. I told him right there in front of a hundred people, ‘You don’t know me well enough to use that tone,’ and then I ran to the bathroom and cried like a baby. But he never addressed me that way again. And he is known as a yeller.”
