Tonya Mosley

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Shawshank Redemption is one of your most popular works.

I'm sure just about everywhere you go, someone talks to you about it.

Is that true?

What do you think it

is about this movie that, because it wasn't a box office hit when it first came out.

What people are relating to really are like the ability to see it over and over again.

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?