Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx take on wrongful convictions, racism in 'Just Mercy'

Record ID: 1430494

  • Title: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx take on wrongful convictions, racism in 'Just Mercy'
  • Date: 7th September 2019
  • Summary: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (SEPTEMBER 6, 2019) (REUTERS) (SOUNDBITE) (English) "JUST MERCY" DIRECTOR DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON SAYING: "I just felt like it was something I had to be a part of. And Bryan Stevenson, once I met him, he really became the heart and soul of the entire production. He was with us from the beginning to the end. Guiding us. Teaching us. He's one of the mo
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2019 04:22
  • Keywords: : Just Mercy TIFF Toronto International Film Festival Michael B. Jordan Jamie Foxx Brie Larson
  • Location: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA / UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS
  • City: TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA / UNIDENTIFIED LOCATIONS
  • Country: Canada
  • Topics: Arts / Culture / Entertainment,Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA006AVNQWY5
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Michael B. Jordan and Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx tackle the subjects of wrongful convictions and racism in 'Just Mercy,' which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday (September 6).
    Jordan plays real-life U.S. civil rights attorney and social justice activist Bryan Stevenson in the film based on the latter's 2014 book 'Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption.' It tells the story of his fight to free wrongly accused Alabama death row inmate Walter McMillian, played by Foxx.
    The film chronicles Stevenson's efforts to wade through the legal and political morass that put McMillian, convicted of the murder of a white female store clerk, on death row for six years in Alabama, and fight the racial bias that kept him, and others like him, there. He was eventually freed when his conviction was overturned by the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals in 1993.
    Brie Larson plays Eva Ansley, the operations director for Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative.
    'Just Mercy' will open in U.S. movie theaters in December.
    (Production: Bob Mezan)
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