Octavia Spencer worked on the movie Get on Up.
Get on Up is a 2014 American biographical drama film about the life of singer James Brown directed by Tate Taylor and written by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth . The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Chadwick Boseman as Brown , Nelsan Ellis as Bobby Byrd , Dan Aykroyd as Ben Bart , Viola Davis as Susie Brown , Craig Robinson as Maceo Parker and Octavia Spencer as Aunt Honey . Octavia Spencer . Recently , Spencer has received acclaim for her work in the films Get on Up , Black or White , Smashed , Snowpiercer , The Divergent Series : Insurgent , and Zootopia .