Michael B. Jordan produced and stars in the biopic 'Just Mercy,' which had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival to great acclaim.
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Nevertheless, Stevenson repeatedly redirected the focus of the Dec. 25 limited release to the people in the audience, as well as the inmates he continues to assist. “I hope this movie helps us to see what’s at stake when we tolerate injustice, what we lose when we put up with inequality, what we suffer when we permit discrimination and bigotry to rule and to shape our lives,” he said after the screening.
Jamie Foxx, who previously appeared in the 2014 film “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” portrays the ill-fated death row inmate Walter “Johnny D.” McMillian — a role with which he said he’s familiar due to his tough upbringing in Terrell, Texas, a town with a local newspaper that refused to print the news of Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election victory.
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