1 00:00:00,960 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us for this very 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: exciting evening for the very special film Just Mercy. We're 3 00:00:09,039 --> 00:00:11,200 Speaker 1: going to start things off by spending time with a 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: simply put one of the most inspiring people you will 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: ever meet, a hero of our generation, Brian Stevenson. We're 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,520 Speaker 1: honored to have three people here who need no introduction, 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Here's the star and producer of Just Mercy, 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan, joined by two more of the film stars, 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: Oscar winning actors Jamie Fox and Brie Larson. They can't 10 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: wait for you to meet the extraordinary person at the 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: center of Just Mercy, Brian Stevenson, a hero of our 12 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: generation who has been a bold voice for the voiceless 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: and has fearlessly stood up for justice when told to 14 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: sit down in the crowd. We have some special guests, 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,800 Speaker 1: three members of the film's remarkable cast who all give 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 1: out standing performances, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson and Kiron Kendrick. 17 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,080 Speaker 1: They are joined by our hosts, who needs no introduction. 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: Please welcome to the stage, the popular and always outspoken 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 1: hosts of the Breakfast Club and my friend Charlemagne. Y'all 20 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: feeling this evening. What's happening? We're here to talk a 21 00:01:18,840 --> 00:01:21,800 Speaker 1: little just mercy, Michael B. Jordan, what's happened to my brother? 22 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:24,039 Speaker 1: Doing good? How you doing? Man? I wasn't important to 23 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: tell Brian's story. I mean for a number of reasons. 24 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:29,440 Speaker 1: I think once I discovered who Brian Stevenson was, and 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: I'm very embarrassed that, you know, four or five years ago, 26 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,080 Speaker 1: I wasn't that familiar with him or his work. You know, 27 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: I felt like it's something that's timely. You know, this case, 28 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,920 Speaker 1: the story took place, you know, over thirty years ago, 29 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: but it's still relevant to today. You know, it's still 30 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,160 Speaker 1: going on obviously, And if I could take this story 31 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 1: and get it out to the masses and keep that 32 00:01:49,880 --> 00:01:52,200 Speaker 1: conversation going, if I could do my part and use 33 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: my platform to make this a global thing, to make 34 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,480 Speaker 1: this a human thing, I was going to do everything 35 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:59,040 Speaker 1: I could to kind of get that done. And after 36 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 1: meeting Brian and uh, really realizing the impact of the 37 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: work that he's doing year, it's uh it's hard to 38 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: not feel moved and not feel like you want to 39 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: be a part of the solution and be a part 40 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: of a change. How did you how did this story 41 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: come across your radar? Um through through my agency? It 42 00:02:14,919 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: was something that um, you know, as an opportunity for 43 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: me to uh to want to tell the story. When 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: I first met Brian, I had a feeling that he was, 45 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: you know, he was auditioning me, like if I was 46 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: worthy enough to kind of to tell his story, because um, 47 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: you know, he's a very humble person. He's not you know, 48 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: a guy who likes a lot of attention. He does 49 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:34,440 Speaker 1: his work behind closed doors, and and it really makes 50 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: impact and um and and and I felt honored to 51 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: be able to tell this story. You know, he's nobody's perfect, 52 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 1: but he's damned he's damned close. And that pressure to 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,079 Speaker 1: to do him justice and not to let him down 54 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:50,040 Speaker 1: is something that really stayed up my mind as that 55 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: we developed and worked on and on the movie. Briand 56 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 1: did he do a good job? Brian, Oh, he does 57 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: an amazing job. I think one of the things that 58 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: I most excited about is the extraordinary performances that all 59 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,839 Speaker 1: of these amazing actors do. I mean, for me, I've 60 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: always believed that if I could get people to see 61 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 1: what I see on a regular basis, if I could 62 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: get them to understand the humanity and the dignity of 63 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,920 Speaker 1: the people that I represent, and what's lost when we 64 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: treat people unfairly and unjustly, when we crush hopes and 65 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: we traumatize and abuse people, that people would want the 66 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,760 Speaker 1: same things that I want. And I wasn't sure that 67 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: was achievable until I met Michael. And I was very 68 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:32,240 Speaker 1: apprehensive about having the book turned into a movie, because 69 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 1: a lot of times Hollywood doesn't actually get the story right. 70 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 1: They compromise. But Michael was aligned and he wanted to 71 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: do it in the right way. And Deston had that 72 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: same vision. And not only is Michael an amazingly talented actor, 73 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: he's somebody who cares deeply about these issues. And his 74 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,640 Speaker 1: commitment to the issues and getting it right is what 75 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: gave me hope. And then when Jamie came, and Breed came, 76 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: and the other members of the cast came, I began 77 00:03:56,880 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: to get excited about what might happen we lifted the veil, 78 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 1: and what's happening in this country. I mean, our country 79 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,440 Speaker 1: has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. We 80 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: have put millions of people in jails and prisons. We're 81 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 1: putting children in adult prisons. We're executing people who are innocent. 82 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: We have condemned people unfairly, and we haven't responded the 83 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,159 Speaker 1: way a just nation should respond. So we have to 84 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,039 Speaker 1: wake people up. And I'm hoping that the storytelling in 85 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: this film will get people engaged in a way where 86 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:28,040 Speaker 1: they leave the theaters prepared to do something that it 87 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: doesn't end when the film is over. And that's what 88 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,680 Speaker 1: really motivates me when I see the film, and what 89 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:39,320 Speaker 1: excites me about the performances. Gree Larthen, how are you hello? 90 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: Are we on the radio? Yeah? No? Oh it just said, 91 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,240 Speaker 1: oh no, I heart radio. Is that's why it says 92 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 1: that okay, got it? Yeah? But you play Eva and 93 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,800 Speaker 1: who was then allied to the community. Um, what was 94 00:04:56,839 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: it like for you to portray her? Oh? It was incredible. 95 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:04,920 Speaker 1: I got to be with Michael B. Jordan like all 96 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: the time. It was just wonderful. You know. Destin, who 97 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,159 Speaker 1: directed the film, is like my family is my brother 98 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,719 Speaker 1: and and um, when I heard that he was telling 99 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,280 Speaker 1: the story, I had read Brian's book a couple of 100 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,919 Speaker 1: years prior. I was just so moved by him and 101 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,320 Speaker 1: by his story, and uh, and Michael wanted me to 102 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: be there. So for me, it was about doing the 103 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,080 Speaker 1: work that I needed to do to show up, to 104 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: dissolve myself, to just be there, to listen and to 105 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: hold space and to explore what that felt like and 106 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,520 Speaker 1: it felt so good? Or what did the story of 107 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:48,680 Speaker 1: Bryan Stevenson taught you? To get very very close to everything. 108 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: Even just today doing press all day, I have a 109 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,640 Speaker 1: new person sitting in front of me every three minutes, 110 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 1: and it's amazing to watch your mind run with how 111 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: your brain wants to quant to fight any person that's 112 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,560 Speaker 1: in front of you and to really work to kind 113 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,520 Speaker 1: of push that away and to go who are you? 114 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 1: Because I most definitely don't know, but I know we 115 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: have a lot in common. And that's what Brian taught me. Dope, 116 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: Jamie Fox, what's happening to my brother? What's up? I 117 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: wasn't for you to portray? Portray your character? And how 118 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,440 Speaker 1: to Brian help you with the role. Well, first of all, 119 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: just I mean meeting Brian is just incredible and effect 120 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: that Michael playing and then they both look they you know, 121 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:36,760 Speaker 1: both be in the gym, so you know, like it 122 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:41,279 Speaker 1: all worked out because I thought, when you're saying you 123 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: were auditioned for him, but I know he was telling people, Yeah, 124 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: you know, it might be Jordan's playing a minute, Come on, man, 125 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 1: but what what what Brian Stevens have done is so 126 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: important because he doesn't fatigue when we have black issues, 127 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: It'll be a black issue for thirty minutes on ourselves 128 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,599 Speaker 1: own or whatever we have our revolution about for forty 129 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 1: five minutes behind our gates, and then we fatigue. Brian 130 00:07:10,760 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: Stevenson works tiresly to change the perception of us. That's 131 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: why I'm happy to Michael B. Jordan called me. I 132 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: was humble to get that call to find out that 133 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 1: he was doing his story. And it's important because we 134 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:27,239 Speaker 1: have to get into these narratives and really do something 135 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: about him. Because we were dealing with this in Texas, 136 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: people being wrongly accused and placed in prison to die, 137 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 1: and the fact that the perception of a black man 138 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: is so it's so a matter of fact that we're 139 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 1: able to allow it to happen and we sit either 140 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: not mute or just don't know about it. So and 141 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: I think when it comes to Michael B. Jordan you 142 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: have to commend him for what he did behind the 143 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: camera and in front of the camera. It's his first movie. 144 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: He produced city. He has the inclusion Act where he 145 00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: has you know, everybody who's represented behind closed doors, and 146 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: you think about this. He could do anything wanted. He's 147 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: a big star. Yeah, but I know you like me, 148 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 1: Like when he laid that railroad, that groundwork in Fruitville Station, 149 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: and he laid that narrative where he spoke for us, 150 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:22,480 Speaker 1: And I told you, I went with some I went 151 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: with some homies. I went with the thugs to go 152 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: see that movie, and there was sniffles because because of 153 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 1: how you you touch us. And then to go from 154 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:36,960 Speaker 1: there to Kill Monger, biggest movie on the planet and 155 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:40,840 Speaker 1: Black Panther. But he took the same narrative with him 156 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: at the biggest level of his career. And so now 157 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 1: just mercy is the artistic sentence that's being finished, but 158 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 1: not that's not the only sentence. And I think that's 159 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 1: what's great about the film. This is the most important 160 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: film I've been a part of, and I think that 161 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: that we should make sure we get it is it's 162 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: the most important. I'm gonna tell you why it's the 163 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: most important because of perception, Like I don't like to 164 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 1: visit people in jail because I don't want to see that. 165 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: I don't want to get used to seeing family members 166 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: or anything like. I don't want to see that. My 167 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 1: father went to jail for twenty five dollars worth of 168 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: illegal substance. They put him in jail for seven years. 169 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,640 Speaker 1: This man educated black studies in South Dallas for twenty 170 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,680 Speaker 1: five years. The very students that he used to have 171 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: the judge come and preside and come talk to the kids. 172 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: That judge presided over his case put him in jail. 173 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: Next two kids that he taught. But they don't understand 174 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: that that that black man taught me how to swim, 175 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: that black man taught me how to throw a football, 176 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: told me how to play tennis. And so I'm not 177 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: learning to play tennis because I want you to know 178 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:54,480 Speaker 1: all of it, so you know, you know it's a 179 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: it's a thing that I'm familiar with, and that The 180 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: good part about that is is that when he got out, 181 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Speaker 1: I the one letter I say, you come stay with me. 182 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,719 Speaker 1: I got on. Now you can come stay with me 183 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: and you and I want to change your life. Now. 184 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: This man taught me how to play tennis. The good 185 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,320 Speaker 1: part about their stories that I got a chance to 186 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:15,480 Speaker 1: take him to the US open and let him watch 187 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 1: Venus and Serena play. So so when that man watched 188 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: this movie about what was going on, I watched him, 189 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: you know, I watched him get you know weak, you know, right, 190 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:34,440 Speaker 1: because because these stories almost every single day. So that's 191 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: why I say it's the most important film I've ever been. Wow, 192 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: Michael is it is it hard to get white Hollywood 193 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: executives to make these kind of stories. I feel like 194 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: this movie for me. First of all, getting any movie 195 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 1: is really hard to get done, especially one with a 196 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: message like this. I feel like for me in this project, 197 00:10:57,960 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: I can't say that it was hard to get done. 198 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,040 Speaker 1: You know from from you know, Warner Brothers ran towards 199 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 1: this movie. Uh, they knew it wasn't a cash cat, 200 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: it wasn't one of their huge blockbuster movies, but they 201 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:12,479 Speaker 1: felt like it was very important. UM parlay my relationship 202 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 1: with them at my overall deal there. Um, they ran 203 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: towards the inclusion writer that I that I implemented with 204 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,800 Speaker 1: my production company. They collaborated with my team for all 205 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: of Warner Media. So now Warner Media has the Inclusion 206 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,080 Speaker 1: Act in there, and that's how they hire through all 207 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: of Warner Media, which is a huge first step. It's 208 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 1: a huge precedents that set with that company, which is 209 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:41,280 Speaker 1: so a person of a minority, somebody from the LBGTQ community, 210 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,440 Speaker 1: some of an unrepresented group has to be heavily considered 211 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: for a department head in front of the camera and 212 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: a major role within the movie. And that's something it's 213 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:52,160 Speaker 1: it's it's something that on paper, a mandate that you know, 214 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:56,480 Speaker 1: can hold people somewhat accountable. It's not full bulletproof, it's 215 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: not full full force, but it's something that they buy. 216 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: It's a mandated the company works under. So that was 217 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:04,920 Speaker 1: a huge first step. We have a lot more steps 218 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: to go, but it was it was a nice first move. 219 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,920 Speaker 1: I feel like the timing of this movie was very important. 220 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,080 Speaker 1: I feel like Brian's work had a lot to do 221 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,079 Speaker 1: with that. Brian Stevenson, who he was, I think the 222 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: heads of the our studio was very progressive and wanted 223 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: to get behind this message. So it was a lot 224 00:12:22,679 --> 00:12:24,679 Speaker 1: of factors that kind of fell into place for this 225 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,560 Speaker 1: movie to get made with as much ease as it has. 226 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:30,040 Speaker 1: It wasn't completely easy, but it wasn't as hard as 227 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: it has been in the past. Well, why why is 228 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: Brian Stevenson a hero? I think he's a hero because 229 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 1: he's selfless. I feel like he sacrificed his life and 230 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 1: dedicated it to a cause. And he doesn't fatigue. Like 231 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:47,640 Speaker 1: Jamie said, he doesn't tire. I think he is almost 232 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 1: He's so optimistic and so hopeful in the most dismal situations. 233 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 1: I don't I can't even fathom, you know. I think 234 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 1: one of the most challenging things about playing him in 235 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: this movie was the situations that he was in. And 236 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: he kept his calm and he kept his cool. Why 237 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: because it wasn't beneficial for his clients something you know, 238 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: being you know, strip search being treated, uh, you know, 239 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,960 Speaker 1: mis mistreated, and and and and and obviously you know, 240 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:16,559 Speaker 1: seeing laws being broken left and right, but being antagonized, 241 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 1: being racially profiled, being harassed, and he still kept his 242 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:24,000 Speaker 1: his his calm nature when emotionally, even in the scene, 243 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: I wanted to react differently, differently, so my artistic acting choices. 244 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: I wanted to be you know, raged, while I wanted 245 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: to lash out. But that's not what Brian Stevenson you know, did, 246 00:13:32,720 --> 00:13:36,520 Speaker 1: That's not who he was. So that reserved nature that 247 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: that methodical, that that you know, he's a strategist. He 248 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: you know, he's five steps ahead. He's all about changing 249 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,040 Speaker 1: the perception. He has layers. He created this legacy museum, 250 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: he has this memorial situation set up and down in Alabama. 251 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 1: He's attacking this thing at so many different levels. I 252 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 1: was so impressed by by how much strategy goes into it. Um, 253 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: and he does all of us work pro bono. You 254 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You know what I'm saying, and 255 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: and and it's and it's uh, the man is so humble, 256 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: it's it's uh, it's incredible. Man. So it's like, you know, 257 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:14,040 Speaker 1: he is our is our he is our hero. Man. 258 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 1: It's like I've been in marble films, you know, I've 259 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 1: done all that, But this is this is the one 260 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 1: that I'm most proud of. Man. He's he's the guy 261 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: look up to. Bryan got some fire quotes too, I'll 262 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: put some in my phone. I want to ask you 263 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 1: why it ran. You said you don't change the world 264 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction 265 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: in your heart. Sure. I mean I just think that, Um, 266 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 1: we have to recognize our power to make a difference. 267 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: And we use some of these lines in the movie, 268 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,640 Speaker 1: but for me, they're not just lines. It's the way 269 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: we do justice. You know, the question is how do 270 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,640 Speaker 1: we do justice. You do justice by being willing to 271 00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: get close to people who are poor and excluded and neglected. 272 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:53,200 Speaker 1: You know, in this country, we have a tendency to 273 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: kind of let the lights always go to the rich 274 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: and the powerful and the privilege. We tend to care 275 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,080 Speaker 1: more about what's happening in places where people have and 276 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,280 Speaker 1: lifted up and gotten a lot of attention. And I 277 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: don't believe that our country will be judged by how 278 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: well we treat the powerful and the privileged and the celebrated. 279 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,120 Speaker 1: We're going to be judged by how we treat the 280 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:15,640 Speaker 1: poor and the incarcerated and the excluded. And for me, 281 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 1: that means understanding that we have an obligation to do 282 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: these things. You know, my great grandfather was enslaved in Virginia, 283 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 1: and he had the belief he believed things he couldn't see, 284 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: and so he learned to read as a twelve year old, 285 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: even though everybody was telling him he would never be free, 286 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: and he learned to read. And when emancipation came all 287 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: of the informally enslaved people would come to his house 288 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: and he'd read the newspaper every night, and the house 289 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: would get quiet. My grandmother would sit next to him. 290 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,480 Speaker 1: She said it would made her so proud that he 291 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: had that kind of power. And he gave that desire 292 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 1: to read to my grandmother, And even though they didn't 293 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 1: have school, she was very literate, and she gave that 294 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,200 Speaker 1: to my mother, and my mother gave that to me. 295 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: And we were poor, but my mom went into debt 296 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: to buy the World Book Encyclopedia so we could see 297 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: this other place. And I was raised is been natured 298 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 1: by people who had the strength to keep fighting, and 299 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: so for me, it's a choice. Hopefulness is what we 300 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: have to have. And we say in the film, and 301 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 1: I say it all the time, that hopelessness is the 302 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: enemy of justice. Injustice prevails where hopelessness persists, our hope 303 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: is our superpower. And I live in Montgomery, Alabama. It's 304 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:20,800 Speaker 1: a challenging place, but it's also an incredibly inspiring place 305 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 1: because in Montgomery, you never forget that you're standing on 306 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:25,920 Speaker 1: the shoulders of people who did so much more with 307 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:27,880 Speaker 1: so much less. The people trying to do what I'm 308 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,280 Speaker 1: trying to do. Sixty years ago they had to frequently 309 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: say my head is bloody, but not bad. I've never 310 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,720 Speaker 1: had to say that. And I feel the power of 311 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,000 Speaker 1: the enslaved who found a way to stay hopeful despite bondage. 312 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 1: I feel the power of people who were terrorized and 313 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:44,720 Speaker 1: lynch and found a way to get to security. My 314 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: parents were humiliated every day by Jim Crow's segregation, and 315 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 1: yet they had enough hope to love one another, to 316 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: create a generation. It gives me the opportunities that I 317 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: have now, So I feel an obligation to fight for 318 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 1: our future, to fight for our children. There's a presumption 319 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: of dangerousness and guilt that gets assigned to black and 320 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 1: brown people, and it's not right, and we've got to 321 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 1: end it. We have a criminal justice system, you know, 322 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: the system that we have that treats you better if 323 00:17:12,840 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: you're rich and guilty, then if you're poor and innocent. 324 00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:17,399 Speaker 1: It's not right, and we've got to do something about it. 325 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:20,480 Speaker 1: And I think we can when we get amazing talented 326 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,679 Speaker 1: people like the people on this stage, and people like 327 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: Rob Morgan and Karen Kendrick and Tim Blake Nelson, when 328 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: they come together and use their creative power to tell 329 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: these stories. I don't think there are any limits to 330 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:36,959 Speaker 1: what we can unravel. We can unearth that can actually 331 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: move us toward justice. And that's what excites me about 332 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: the film. I think it's going to become something that 333 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: I hope people are organized around, that people get inspired 334 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:47,280 Speaker 1: by that push us us towards something that feels more 335 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: like justice. And that's the vision, that's the hope behind 336 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:56,280 Speaker 1: all of this. Affected. I would affected you think this 337 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 1: movie will be in changing anything in our climate in 338 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,879 Speaker 1: America right now. I feel like the takeaway that I 339 00:18:06,920 --> 00:18:09,359 Speaker 1: want at the end of this movie, I want people 340 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:11,880 Speaker 1: to feel I want people to start having conversations. That's 341 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,880 Speaker 1: where it starts. I want people to go home and think, 342 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 1: you know, um. I want people to feel like what 343 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,639 Speaker 1: they what can they do? I think one of the 344 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: major issues with with with criminal justice is people feel 345 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 1: like the issue is so big that what could little 346 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,480 Speaker 1: load me do to affect this big thing? And it's 347 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:34,680 Speaker 1: paralyzing so they do nothing. And and I feel like, 348 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 1: if you can identify with the thing that that makes 349 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: you tick, that that bothers you, that that that that 350 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,080 Speaker 1: you want to go out and be a part of 351 00:18:43,080 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: the solution. Go to eji dot org. There's a list 352 00:18:46,320 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 1: of actionable things that you could actually do to start 353 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 1: being a part of the actual change. Vote you feel me, 354 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,720 Speaker 1: I write that, you know our ancestors, you know died 355 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 1: and went through all the ship forward is to vote, 356 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,439 Speaker 1: you know, find out what judges are where, what what 357 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: policies being put in place? What? How can you vote 358 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,960 Speaker 1: on things that's going to directly affect your situation, in 359 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 1: your in your circumstances. You know, those are those are 360 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,399 Speaker 1: the basic things that we just tend to ignore. So 361 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: I want people to feel like they're not too small, 362 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 1: that that they could be a part of the solution, 363 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: that they could stand on the right side of history. 364 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,080 Speaker 1: After leaving and watching this movie, Bree, when you see 365 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,359 Speaker 1: stories like this, how does it make you personally feel 366 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,639 Speaker 1: as a as a yeah, as the white person in America? 367 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: When you see stories like this, how does it make 368 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:36,359 Speaker 1: you feel? Thank you for the question? What is that funny? 369 00:19:38,160 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: I really everybody white, no, no, no, no no, about that 370 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: they just don't know breathe. They don't know breathe that well, 371 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 1: they just don't breath. I mean, I mean everybody else 372 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 1: building I think I just let the air of the 373 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,280 Speaker 1: room for it. I think a we can talk about 374 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: that whiteness. You did went over there, I appear to 375 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:10,000 Speaker 1: be white. Um, I wait, I got time to speak 376 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:14,639 Speaker 1: on that whiteness. Oh man, white man speak on the 377 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 1: white mansk. Thank you. I know what you meant, though 378 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:22,760 Speaker 1: I don't know I know what you mean. I'm just 379 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: I'm just letting them. I'm letting them go because they 380 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 1: held her breath, the whiteness all trying to catch a 381 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 1: moment right, Charlotte Mane talks about whiteness. What you know 382 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,879 Speaker 1: what I mean? I know exactly. You don't have to 383 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,359 Speaker 1: end the Boys in the Hood with the boys that 384 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:47,080 Speaker 1: either they don't know exactly don't show. I don't care 385 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: about what's going on. I wonder how much did they exactly. 386 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: I'm just didn't happen. Um. Well, I mean the truth is, 387 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: I'm so open, you know, and I'm I'm so open 388 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 1: to learning about to learning more and to listening. And 389 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:09,480 Speaker 1: I learned so much on this movie and I will 390 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: keep learning and so to hear these stories. It's hard. 391 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: It's very hard. And I feel helpless too at times. 392 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: And I know that I'm not doing enough too, and 393 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: I also try really hard. So for me, it's about 394 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: keeping my eyes open and keeping softness in myself because 395 00:21:31,880 --> 00:21:35,399 Speaker 1: getting hard doesn't really help anybody, I don't think, and 396 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: being available every step of the way. So it's doing 397 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: things like this, making myself available to films like this, 398 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:44,159 Speaker 1: and it's activism outside of it that you may hear 399 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: about you may not, but yeah, that's just me. And 400 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: I did appreciate the question, by the way, Yeah, that 401 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: was a great affort. Your publicis somewhere like. But I'll 402 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:00,959 Speaker 1: tell you what one does go a long way. The 403 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,120 Speaker 1: fact that she's a part of the filming, the fact 404 00:22:03,119 --> 00:22:06,000 Speaker 1: that people can see it and feel included, and the 405 00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:09,200 Speaker 1: fact that all the people on the stage were conscious 406 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: about making sure that this movie was open to everybody. 407 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:19,960 Speaker 1: Michael B. Brian, We constantly destined, our director constantly made 408 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: sure that there were things that we did so we 409 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,479 Speaker 1: can open it up. This movie tested a ninety seven 410 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: in front of an all black audience, but then it 411 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:32,159 Speaker 1: tested in front of a all white audience, and I 412 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: was like, man, what did they say? It tested in 413 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,679 Speaker 1: ninety eight. So it lets you know that your your 414 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:43,040 Speaker 1: question is absolutely pointed. It absolutely needs to be said, 415 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: because I think in the movie what was brilliant is 416 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: that when you did see the white characters, like the 417 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:52,879 Speaker 1: correctional officer, he had contrition. He knew that this was wrong. 418 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 1: So you can see it on his face. That moment 419 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: gives the people that are white in the audience who 420 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,199 Speaker 1: feel the way he feels, a chance to get into it. 421 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:05,119 Speaker 1: Also with the prosecuting attorney, you can see him stewing 422 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,720 Speaker 1: and toiling with this decision that's going to ruin this 423 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 1: man's life. So I think by the movie, doing that 424 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 1: brings everybody into it, makes it makes it a human 425 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: a human condition of what we have to eradicate. If 426 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: that means Ryan, I want to close with this. Michael 427 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 1: bought it up earlier. But what are the big and 428 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: small things we can do to help support a world 429 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: with more Bryan's these? Well, thank you, I mean for me. 430 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 1: We've gotten into this mess because we've allowed ourselves to 431 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 1: be governed by the politics of fear and anger. In 432 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies and eighties, we had politicians that said 433 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,120 Speaker 1: that people who are drug addicted and drug dependent, those 434 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: people are criminals. We're going to use the criminal justice 435 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,440 Speaker 1: system to respond to them. We shouldn't have made that choice. 436 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: We should have said that people with addiction and dependency 437 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: have a health problem. We need our healthcare system to respond. 438 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: So we have to change the frame in this country, 439 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: and we have to the politics of fear and anger. 440 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: Fear and anger are the essential ingredients that contribute to 441 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: injustice and oppression. Walter McMillan was convicted in this community 442 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 1: because people were being shaped by fear and anger and 443 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 1: they tolerated things they shouldn't tolerate, the accepted things they 444 00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,239 Speaker 1: shouldn't accept. And I just hope people who see this 445 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,560 Speaker 1: film are motivated to push past the fear, push past 446 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,480 Speaker 1: the anger, and actually do the things that justice requires. 447 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: We will have on our site a whole catalog of 448 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 1: opportunities for people to get involved. There are hundreds of 449 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: organizations around the country that are looking for volunteers to 450 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:35,879 Speaker 1: work with the thousands of people who come out of 451 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: jails and prisons every month who need help. There are 452 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,720 Speaker 1: people that are doing campaigns. We need bail reform in 453 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: this country. We put people in prison because they're poor, 454 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,640 Speaker 1: and we keep them there. We need accountability from police 455 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: officers and prosecutors and judges and we've got to change that. 456 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,000 Speaker 1: I want everybody who sees this film to be motivated 457 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 1: to learn who the prosecutor is in the community where 458 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,879 Speaker 1: they live. Most people don't know who their prosecutor is. 459 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,439 Speaker 1: And there are people who exploit that by doing all 460 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: kinds of really horrific things, but they're never had accountable 461 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: because we don't even know who they are. And that 462 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:11,240 Speaker 1: kind of education can be powerful. I hope people will 463 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,120 Speaker 1: see the film and come to Montgomery. We've opened a museum, 464 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: we've opened a memorial. It's a place where we're trying 465 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 1: to tell the truth about this history of racial inequality. 466 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,159 Speaker 1: It's a challenging place, but it's a necessary place. And finally, 467 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,200 Speaker 1: I hope people will come to the understanding that we've 468 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 1: got to do better as people who care about other people. 469 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,560 Speaker 1: There's an absence of compassion and mercy in the policy 470 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 1: debates that we see happening around us. There is, and 471 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,760 Speaker 1: when we allow ourselves to be disconnected from mercy and compassion, 472 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,359 Speaker 1: we do terrible things to one another. We don't send 473 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 1: crimes to prison. We send people to prison, and when 474 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,119 Speaker 1: we forget that we're sending people, we do abusive things. 475 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:50,520 Speaker 1: And I just believe that a community that comes together 476 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: and starts demanding more hope and more mercy and more 477 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: justice is a community that actually begins to move toward 478 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:00,320 Speaker 1: the kind of community that I think all of us 479 00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: want to live in. We want to live in a 480 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: place that's healthy, where no one is prejudged and treated unfairly. 481 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: But to get there, we're gonna have to make some changes, 482 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: and I'm hoping this film inspires people to engage in 483 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: the kind of day to day living that those changes require. 484 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:16,960 Speaker 1: And I'm so I just have to say how grateful 485 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: I am to Michael, and to Brie and to Jamie 486 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,760 Speaker 1: and the entire cast and to Destined. For me, watching 487 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: the film and seeing the humanity and the dignity of 488 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: my clients presented in such a powerful, thoughtful, kind way 489 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:35,560 Speaker 1: was incredibly moving. And my community, the people of who 490 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 1: are on death row, the poor, the accused, the condemned, 491 00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: are so excited to finally be acknowledge, to be seen, 492 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,640 Speaker 1: to be recognized, and to have their struggle for justice 493 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:49,639 Speaker 1: to be portrayed with such care and compassion. It's a 494 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: great gift to all of us that are trying to 495 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: do human rights work in this country, and I'm enormously grateful. 496 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,280 Speaker 1: I know, I think that was the last question, but 497 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 1: one wolf might have been joyed. This is a movie 498 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,160 Speaker 1: about a hope. So what what what do you want 499 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: that hope to be for the people? What is that hope? 500 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: M hmm, I want the hope to be m hm. 501 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:23,760 Speaker 1: That's a great question that I feel like within solidarity, 502 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,919 Speaker 1: if you get enough people, that was an extra timing 503 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:36,480 Speaker 1: all that awesome, I feel, and a black man get 504 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 1: his thoughts together, he just starts talking. Jesus, I feel. 505 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: I feel. I feel like with enough solidarity, with enough 506 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 1: uh unification amongst people. I think the numbers of people 507 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 1: talking about the same thing, that care about the same thing, 508 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: you be able to demand the answers from broken systems. 509 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,560 Speaker 1: You know. I feel like if you get enough of us, 510 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,080 Speaker 1: the internet is a powerful thing. You know, we cancel 511 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:06,720 Speaker 1: things all the time. You know, you get it. Behind 512 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,840 Speaker 1: the movement, you actually can see some things start to 513 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: actually change, from big you know, blue collar corporations to 514 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:15,919 Speaker 1: you know, to getting people released from from jail. Um. 515 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,879 Speaker 1: You can you can get some movement done if we 516 00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: all get together and push one narrative from something that 517 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: we really care about I feel like we can really 518 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:24,439 Speaker 1: make some real change. So I think from watching this movement, 519 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,879 Speaker 1: I really want people I said it before, to to 520 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: feel like your words matter, the things that you say matter, 521 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: your vote matters, that you can get out and actually 522 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,880 Speaker 1: be a part of the change. It just don't sit 523 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,000 Speaker 1: back and do nothing, because if you sit back and 524 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,560 Speaker 1: do nothing, it helps No. Him makes me like Bryan 525 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 1: Stevens and Jamie five Free Boston and Michael B. Jordan. J. 526 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: Murphy comes out limited relief on Christmas Day and wide 527 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: relief on January tenth to make sure y'all do support 528 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: that I