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‘Till’ Actor Haley Bennett on the Importance of Telling Emmett Till’s Story

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Marta Balaga Haley Bennett, the first recipient of EnergaCamerimage Film Festival’s New Generation Acting Award, will follow Joe Wright’s “Cyrano” with Whoopi Goldberg-produced “Till,” about the infamous murder of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of “offending” white woman Carolyn Bryant.

Her husband and his half-brother were acquitted, but later confessed to the murder. “In America, it was a reckoning, but I didn’t have a deep knowledge of it.

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