. >> reporter: and oscar winner, octavia spencer is cast as brown's aunt honey, a brothel owner, who a dose of confidence. >> one day, everybody's going to know your name. and ain't nothing, nothing can touch it. >> aunt honey was the first person to give him a foundation of familial love. when you give a child that kind of grounding, it gives them the permission to blossom. >> reporter: brown didn't just blossom. he exploded. boseman says playing the role of the godfather of soul is the role of a lifetime. did it scare you at all, chad? >> i felt like nobody could do this. i looked at the footage of him dancing. and i was like, absolutely not. >> reporter: boseman overcame his reservations, training with a choreographer five to eight hours a day. >> the hardest thing was the groove. you know? james brown's groove. once you get that, you understand the rest of it. >> reporter: the film highlights brown's genius and drive, which earned him the name, the hardest working man in showbusiness. >> if it sounds good and it feels good, it's musical. play it like i say play it. >> reporter: w

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>> well, there's, you know, shonda rhimes taking over thursday night and octavia spencer on fox and tracywe have alfrie woodard playing the president of the united states, which i think is a first on "state of affairs" and the return of nicole and kerry washington both as leads of their show. nicole with "sleepy hollow" and kerry on "scandal." >> i want to play for folks that we are about to have a black woman president on nbc. i want to play a little bit of nbc's state of affairs so folks get a sense of what is coming up. >> is this true? i had to make a very difficult decision. >> a decision that was not yours to make. >> could we have killed him today? >> there is a strong possibility, yes. but not a certainty. >> dr. butler's rescue, where are we now? >> jack dawkins and his team are on standby, ma'am. >> let's bring him home. >> could my life be happier? >> it could be happier. there are ten shows coming up in the fall with minority leads in the cast. that's unheard of for fall television. our minorities are 38% in this country and 10% of the demographics in tv. they want to reach th

probably not -- i guess elizabeth warren -- yeah, you know, i would say octavia spencer is the closestf the leaders of the rebels. she's great. it's a great cast. and it's just really fun. it works in the way that these science fiction action movies are supposed to. there's lots of great action and excitement and there's some humor. and the story you don't really know where it's going. >> is that open? >> yeah, it's open and that is a great alternative to some of the bigger, dumber ones. >> before we let you go there's a film called "obvious child" taking on a hot social topic. >> yes, it is. >> is finding the right mix of approaching that topic with seriousness and humor. >> yeah, i think "obvious child," it's about a young woman who -- a stand-up comedian played by jenny slade who has a one-night stand, finds herself pregnant and decides to terminate the pregnancy. it's a movie that deals very frankly and honestly and matter-of-factually with abortion. and i think it's a movie that will certainly outrage people who are opposed to abortion who don't think that it could ever be dealt w

octavia spencer playing his mom. >> i get to be in this cast, so privileged to be in this cast with theseshow up to this one. >> let's switch gears a bit. we just came off the 30th anniversary of "ghostbusters" last month. >> we owned the city here. >> what's one of your fondest memories of that? >> we were stealing shots all over no permits or nothing. we were just walking along at the library. and people, they didn't know who we were. they weren't even reacting to us. >> normal new york. >> it was great and thought this is just going to be a great experience. then we went to madison avenue with the rigs on and it was pandemonium there. here we were with the packs and the tube, that green tube we had there. you know what that's for? you see a ghost, you get scared, sometimes you lose it. >> that's what that was. got it. i thought you weren't scared about anything. what about "ghostbusters 3." >> it looks like we'll be in preproduction in the spring, from what i hear. >> all right. we'll check in tomorrow. i want to ask you about the late great james garner. you worked together in "my fel

we were together a couple weeks ago with dan aykroyd and octavia spencer. song. nobody sang. then after the cameras were broken down you walked up to me and said i was going to sing, but i didn't. so go ahead. >> it's early, man. >> it's not too early. it's lunchtime for me. >> okay. okay. >> your favorite. >> a portion. >> no, sing the whole song. yes, a portion. ♪ man made the car to take us over the road ♪ ♪ man made the train to carry the heavy load ♪ ♪ man made the lek rik lights to keep us out of the dark ♪ ♪ man made the bowl for the water like noah made the ark ♪ ♪ this is a man's world and stop. >> very nice. you did cheat me last time. >> it's early. >> congratulations. you're unbelievable in this movie. >> thank you, man. >> "get on up" from our sister company universal picks opens up on friday. >>> up next, we'll do fresh cooks live. carson is going to handle that chore right after these messages. and this journey will keep you on the edge of your seat all summer long during the emirates airline us open series. this summer we'll be in the great