“Da 5 Bloods,” “Malcolm X”), as well as projects such as “The Good Fight,” “The Cider House Rules,” and “The Harder They Fall.” “Based on the conversations that I had with Tracy McMillan and Kerry Washington, who approached me to do this work, I thought there was a real opportunity to illuminate a situation that people maybe have prejudiced thoughts about, when they think about somebody who has been in and out of prison,” he told The Post. “Kerry made it really clear to me not only why she wanted me in particular to do this work, but what I had meant to her as an actor.
It was humbling, frankly.” Each half-hour episode follows Edwin and Paige as they get used to living with each other and experience personality clashes, as Edwin tries to mentor his grandson, give Paige dating advice, and look into his own job prospects.“I read Tracy’s memoir, and I also met with her dad,” said Lindo. “The character is based on Tracy’s own father, and he and I spent quite a bit of time together.
I don’t think I borrowed direct characteristics from him. It was more of an impressionistic response that I had…but, he had a habit of saying ‘baby girl,’ and I stole that for Edwin.”Lindo also went to a halfway house in Los Angeles and met with the residents. “They very generously told me about their lives, how they had come to be in the situation where they were incarcerated in the first place, and what their journeys had been re-entering society.
So, all of those things gave me valuable insights into this world, and a firm point of departure as I was starting to create this character.”Although his projects are different from each other, Lindo sees “UnPrisoned” as sharing some commonalities with his past roles. “It’s this term I’ve gotten into.
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