Octavia Spencer on How C.J. Walker Was "Able to Achieve So Much When the World Told Her She Had No Value"
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hollywoodreporter.comOctavia Spencer grew up with the legacy of Madam C.J. Walker, a businesswoman and philanthropist who built an empire selling cosmetics and grooming products to Black women.
Walker became known as America's first self-made female millionaire — hence the title of the Netflix series Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.
Walker, for which Spencer earned her career-first Emmy nomination for lead actress in a limited series. But it wasn't Walker's wealth that inspired Spencer, who also served as an executive producer on the four-episode series. "The fact that this woman, who was born the first free person in her home post-slavery, was able to achieve so much when the world told her that she had no value — that's what my mother used as the.
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