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Who Jamie Foxx Based His Performance On In ‘Just Mercy’ Will Get You Choked Up · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Well, Jamie Fox, and
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Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan teamed up to tell a powerful true
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Speaker 1: story in the new film Just Mercy. It tells the
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Speaker 1: tale of lawyer and social justice activist Brian Stevenson played
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Speaker 1: by Michael and one of his very first cases defending
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Speaker 1: Walter McMillan played by Jamie, who has been wrongfully accused
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Speaker 1: of murder and incarcerated on death row. Jamie's being heralded
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Speaker 1: for his performance of Walter, whose story actually reminded Jamie
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Speaker 1: of one of the most influential people in his own life.
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Speaker 1: It was close to harm because my father actually was
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Speaker 1: placed in there for twenty five dollars worth of the
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Speaker 1: legal substance for seven years. So I took that d
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Speaker 1: n a of how I felt about my father and
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Speaker 1: placed it into Walter McMillan, and it was so excited
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Speaker 1: about it. So, you know what, we're getting the word
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Speaker 1: out Just Mercy and theaters tomorrow. That's direct from Hollywood.