Octavia Spencer Teaming Up With LeBron James For TV Series Based On The Life Of Madam C.J. Walker

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Octavia Spencer, and LeBron James team up for tv series based on the life of Madam C.J. Walker. The Academy Award winner is set to play Madam C.J. Walker in the limited series and  James is set to  executive  produce along with his company’s co-founder, Maverick Carter.

The series is based on the book “On Her Own Ground” by A’Lelia Bundles, Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, who will also serve as a consultant on the series, according to Variety.

Walker, the daughter of slaves, was orphaned at age seven, married at 14, and widowed at 20. She spent two decades laboring as a washerwoman, earning $1.50 a week. However, everything changed following Walker’s discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women. By the time she died in 1919, she had built a beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women.

The series is reportedly being looked at by Netflix.