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[The following story contains mild spoilers from Clemency.]

To make the death-row drama Clemency, stars Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge and writer-director Chinonye Chukwu immersed themselves in the prison community.

Chukwu was initially inspired by the execution of death-row inmate Troy Davis and wondered about the toll overseeing such events took on the prison wardens.

She moved to Ohio, volunteered on 14 clemency cases and interviewed &#;dozens and dozens and dozens,&#; as Chukwu told The Hollywood Reporter, of wardens, lawyers, corrections staff and people who were incarcerated, with many of those she consulted reading and offering feedback on her script.

Woodard got involved shortly after reading Chukwu&#;s screenplay, which reached her thanks to a fortuitous connection between producer Bronwyn Cornelius and Woodard&#;s agent, and was guided by her writer-director in understand Bronwyn Cornelius - - | LinkedIn CEF