Octavia Spencer Joins 'Insurgent' as Johanna Reyes

In Veronica Roth's Divergent trilogy, the human population is divided into five factions with a single primary attribute. As we saw in the first film, Shailene Woodley's character leaves the self-sacrificing Abnegation clan for the risk-taking Dauntless. But one of the other factions we saw only a glimpse of in the film were the peace-loving flower children of Amity, and now the sequel Insurgent has found their most important member in Octavia Spencer.

The Academy Award-winning Spencer will play Johanna Reyes, the "leader" (they're too peaceful to have true leaders) of the Amity that will play a much larger role in the sequel. Woodley is back as Beatris "Tris" Prior, who continues to fight a growing conspiracy surrounding divergents, those who have more than one attribute and thus do not fit in any faction. Kate Winslet, Theo James, Zoe Kazan, Miles Teller, Ray Stevenson, and more are expected to reprise their roles. Johanna's an important character the rest of the way and having someone like Spencer to play her is a huge plus.

Insurgent opens on March 20th 2015.