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This Time, Octavia Spencer Takes Something For Herself In 'Ma'

After a career often spent in roles of kind caretakers, Octavia Spencer sinks her teeth into the part of a woman who draws a group of teenagers into her basement.
Octavia Spencer stars as the vengeful Sue Ann in "Ma," directed by Tate Taylor.

Making Octavia Spencer the villain in a horror movie is one of those ideas that only seems great in retrospect. After all, Spencer's famous persona is the stoic, put-upon matriarch, usually one in a position of service to others, and she's carried her weary frown and warm, easy hugs to awards glory in ,and ... and for a while entered Typecast Valley with , and on and on. There was a period where

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