Wednesday, January 28, 2015

The Doctress Is In

Overseeing the Red Band Society on TV didn’t quite work out for Octavia Spencer last fall – so the Academy Award winner is going back to film.

The Snowpiercer star is eyeing the starring role in Seacole, an upcoming period biopic about Mary Seacole, the pioneering Jamaican doctress who stood up to prejudice to play a key role in the Crimean War, even rivaling Florence Nightingale.

The project would reunite Spencer with one of her producers from The Help – so you know the material will do good by her and she definitely will do good by it.

In Secret’s Charlie Stratton is set to direct.

Photo: KRNB.com.

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