Octavia Spencer set Gianni Paolo up "with her whole team" when he couldn't afford a publicist

Gianni Paolo is sharing a sweet story about his 2019 Ma  co-star, Octavia Spencer. The actor explained that he was $20,000 in credit card debt, with the majority of his pay for the film being put towards paying his manager, agent, and team.

"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," he expressed while on Harry Jowsey's Boyfriend Material podcast. "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."

He then recalled how Spencer invited the cast over to have dinner at her house on a Friday night. "She was talking about doing press for the movie and this was my first real big thing. So, I didn't know anything," he continued. "And 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."