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Alfre Woodard wanted to introduce “a voice that's never been heard” in her prison drama 'Clemency'

Photo: Jeff VespaAlfre Woodard is on a mission in her latest feature Clemency.

In the new film, Woodard stars as Bernadine Williams, an embattled prison warden who becomes emotionally involved with one of the inmates on death row. Woodard tells ABC Audio that she wanted to be a part of this project to help “introduce…a voice that’s never been heard.”

“We haven’t heard about the people that we charged with carrying out the sentences,” she says, referring to the wardens who work on death row. “And they are like us. They’re like your cousins, your church

 

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