Tonya Mosley

Yes.

And also the pacing of it is so slow compared to today.

It's like a slice of life.

Those stories don't really get made like that today.

Well, the thing about it, Alfre, is that I think before going back through and watching all these films, I might have been like, okay, yeah, that sounds kind of like an older person complaining.

But there was something so beautiful and real.

And it offered a totality.

It was like having a full course meal in front of me instead of like cheap meals.

fast food, you know, where it tastes good in the moment.

What is lost with that?

Because one of the things I just felt is like, wow, this is a true representation of black life at a certain period.

In 2019, you were in the film Clemency and you play Bernadine Williams, a prison warden in a maximum security facility who oversees executions.

And I want to actually play a scene from it.

Your character is sitting across from an inmate she has come to know, a man who is about to be put to death.

And she's walking him through it every single step down to the drugs that will move through his body.

Let's listen.

Oh, Alfre, you're crying.

Yeah.

Tell me why you're emotional after listening to that.

That's the director.