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Oscar-winner Octavia Spencer on How This Season of ‘Truth Be Told’ is ‘Our Best’
It isn’t every day you get to speak with an Oscar winner, but today is your lucky day. Octavia Spencer joined Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott on the latest episode to talk about her hit Apple TV+ series ‘Truth Be Told,’ where she keeps her Oscar, and so much more. She said playing Poppy Scoville-Parnell, a true-crime podcaster out to solve crimes on Truth Be Told (January 20 on Apple TV+), was always in the cards for Octavia Spencer. “I've had this affinity for true-crime and investigative journalism. So it was just a natural progression.” Now in its third season, Spencer says, it’s “a deep intense…
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