# @variety on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNYlQOATpNV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33442426-variety-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/893e56431b.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-08-15T17:30:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Variety (@Variety) — https://gondola.cc/Variety

## Caption

#OctaviaSpencer paid for her #Ma co-star Gianni Paolo to have a publicist when he couldn't afford one for their press tour due to credit card debt. ⁠
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"I didn't have any money for a publicist because at this time, this was pre-'Ma' coming out and I was like, I just can't spend $5,000 a month for a publicist. I only made $6,000 on the movie. I'm in $20,000 worth of credit card debt. So, I'm like, I'm just not going to get a publicist... [Octavia] was talking about doing press for the movie and this was my first real big thing. She basically was like, 'We're going to do press. [Get a] publicist.' And I told her, I don't have the money to do that. I'm not going to get a publicist... She called her publicist, paid for it completely and then set me up with her whole team. And then [she] said, 'Now you have a publicist.' She didn't ask for the money back. Never."⁠
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## Tags

ma, octaviaspencer

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