Octavia Spencer stars in 'Self Made: Inspired By the Life of Madam C.J. Walker,' Netflix's four-episode series available now. Walker developed a line of African American hair products and became America's first female millionaire.
A woman, born Sarah Breedlove to recently-freed slaves, becomes a teenage mother and struggles with hair loss before developing a line of African American hair products so successful, she becomes America's first female millionaire and, because she has chutzpah, John D. Rockefeller's New York neighbor.Octavia Spencer stars in Netflix's “Self Made: Inspired By the Life of Madam C.J.
Spencer, also a producer on the series alongside LeBron James, says Walker was “a standard-bearer in our home" who represented "an understanding that you can create your own path in life and achieve the highest level, even if you were born of nothing.” Yet "Self Made" is the first major film or TV project about a woman who “is kind of a god,” as Allure fashion director Rajni Jacques describes her. “She is so well known in the black community. goes beyond hair.” As Spencer puts it, Walker"built a sense of community and allowed black women to create their own destinies."Bundles, the 2001 book's author, says that back in 1982, “Roots” writer Alex Haley approached her about a Walker-inspired miniseries.
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