Film editor Phyllis Housen admits, “I did not know that much about the prison industrial complex” before working on “Clemency.” But while the film is ostensibly about the death penalty, it’s really “this internal story” about “the implosion of [a woman’s] world based on what she did for a living.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Housen below.
See Alfre Woodard Interview: ‘Clemency’
That woman is Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard), a prison warden worn down by years of administering death row executions. Things come to a head for her when inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) desperately fights for his life before his own sentence is carried out.
Writer and director Chinonye Chukwu spent years researching capital punishment before shooting the movie, so she “had a very clear vision of what she wanted,” Housen explains, “which is rare.” In editing a movie, “you put it together according to the script, you build the bricks of the scenes,...
See Alfre Woodard Interview: ‘Clemency’
That woman is Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard), a prison warden worn down by years of administering death row executions. Things come to a head for her when inmate Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) desperately fights for his life before his own sentence is carried out.
Writer and director Chinonye Chukwu spent years researching capital punishment before shooting the movie, so she “had a very clear vision of what she wanted,” Housen explains, “which is rare.” In editing a movie, “you put it together according to the script, you build the bricks of the scenes,...
- 11/29/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
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