Tonya Mosley

I was on the phone with my mom and I told her I was coming to do this and she got really quiet and she said, Shawshank Redemption's my favorite movie.

And I said, yeah, I know, everyone's favorite movie.

But what do you think it is about it that people keep going back to it over and over again, and it hits the tender place within them?

Does your view of that role and that film evolve as you grow and evolve?

Fourteen prisons you all have done work in.

Did the idea come after Shawshank Redemption, because of Shawshank Redemption?

How did that idea even come about to do that prison work?

Were you all put on theater productions in prisons?

Tim, thank you so much for your work, your honesty, and this time that you've spent with us to tell us just a little snippet about your life and your career.

Thank you so much, Tim.

award-winning actor Tim Robbins.

Coming up, TV critic David Bianculli reviews the new Netflix miniseries Death by Lightning.

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Death by Lightning, the new four-part miniseries now streaming on Netflix, stars Michael Shannon from Boardwalk Empire as President James Garfield and Matthew McFadden from Succession as Charles Guiteau, the man who assassinated him.

Our TV critic, David Bianculli, has this review.

Are we not a nation built wholly from rogues and migrants and free thinkers?

His name ringing down through the ages.

Not a drain.

Not a drain, but a creditor.

Tomorrow on Fresh Air, nutritionist Marion Nestle had to completely revise her groundbreaking book, What to Eat, 20 years later.