David Oyelowo

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

It was made a little while ago, and it was one of those... The alchemy of making movies, man.

We made it with a company that went into insolvency, and so we had to get the film back and all that.

And then there was the writer's strike and all this stuff before we're now getting the movie out.

But...

And weirdly, I've had so many instances like this, like Selma took seven years to get made.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

From when I first auditioned for it to when it actually got made.

Right, exactly.

And it was the opposite.

I mean, I watched five directors come and go before it ended up being Ava DuVernay.

I watched that film go from Lyndon Johnson being the central character to it finally being Dr. King, as it always should have been.

And to your point,

You know, I truly believe these things because I'm a big believer in the power of storytelling.

And I do think often the ones that really go on to be impactful, they sometimes take time to come to fruition in the right way.

And what happened with Newborn is that through the course of this protracted journey to the now that we're in,

we got to go back and do reshoots and really analyze what it is we wanted to do with the film.

Because the film is about my character, Chris Newborn, who endures seven years of solitary confinement and is dealing with the detrimental effects of that mentally and is trying to reconnect with his family after coming out with his wife and his son.

And that's very delicate, you know, because I talked to a few people who had dealt with that reality, specifically a guy called Richard Rosario, who had been wrongfully incarcerated for 20 years, seven of which were in solitary confinement.