Entries tagged with “Clemency, The Film”
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Aug 07, 2020
Capital Punishment and the Arts: Clemency Lead Actress and Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Discuss Justice and the Death Penalty
The death penalty is “a losing situation for everybody,” actress and Clemency star Alfre Woodard said in a recent Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists internet forum. “It does not bring back the person who has been taken violently. It doesn’t. It destroys…
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Nov 26, 2019
Death-Penalty Roles Inspire Actors to Take Stands for Social Justice, Against Death Penalty
Popular culture has the potential to change social attitudes, and actors in two eagerly anticipated movies focusing on the death penalty are hoping that their films will do just that. In recent interviews about their roles in the dramas Just Mercy and Clemency, actors Jamie Foxx, Alfre Woodard, and Aldis Hodge discuss how those films inspired them to open up about their past and affected…