Oprah Winfrey Presents: When They See Us Now Pt. 1

Oprah's Super Soul

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4.6 • 32.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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This special podcast episode features conversations with When They See Us creator, co-writer and director Ava DuVernay together with the talented cast of the four-part docu-drama from Netflix. Since its release on May 31st, Netflix says When They See Us has been the most-watched series on the platform. Based on a true story, When They See Us is an historical account of the five teenagers wrongfully convicted of sexual assault in Central Park in 1989. The four-part series focuses on the young men – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise – who were sentenced between five and 15 years in prison and juvenile detention centers. In 2002, all five men were exonerated of their crimes after DNA evidence and a confession from the lone attacker, Matias Reyes, proved their innocence. Vanity Fair said, “But even the most eloquent and evocative documentaries don’t involve the viewer as deeply as a brilliant acting performance, the kind that DuVernay gets from Jharrel Jerome (as Korey Wise), Marquis Rodriguez (Raymond Santana), Ethan Herisse (Yusef Salaam), Asante Blackk (Kevin Richardson) and Caleel Harris (Antron McCray). Empathy springs from the tiny emotional inflections that make it all so agonizingly real.” In the second episode, Oprah speaks with the real-life exonerated five.

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0:00.0	I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of
0:07.6	the most valuable gifts you can give yourself is time, taking time to be more fully present.
0:16.1	Your journey to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right
0:23.1	now.
0:24.1	So, let's get started and let's bring everybody out. She plays Dolores Wise, Mother
0:31.5	to Cory Wise, Dizzy Nash, playing the role of the adult Kevin Richardson Justin Cunningham.
0:40.6	Jovanna Deppo plays Entron McRae as an adult. Welcome Jovanna. In the role of the adult,
0:47.3	you see a lot of people who are very well-known. He plays the adult Raymond Santana Jr. Welcome
0:53.8	Freddie Mayares. Jonathan King is executive producer on this project. Jonathan and one
1:02.1	of the executive producers of when they see us very well. He plays Cory Wise as a young
1:08.6	man and an adult. Jarrow Jarrow. In the role of Kevin Richardson as a young man, welcome
1:19.5	a Sunday black. Playing the young Antron McRae, Khalil Harris. Ethan Harris plays, you
1:30.7	have Salam as a young man in the role of Bobby McRae, Entron McRae's father Michael Gay Williams.
1:40.9	Mikey Joseph, the defense attorney for Entron McRae, is played by Joshua Jackson. One of
1:48.1	the executive producer on when they see us, Jane Rosenthal, and finally the creator, the
1:56.1	executive producer, the writer, the director, the visionary who shared every step of this
2:02.6	film with the exonerated five welcome Ava DuVertney.
2:07.8	Hello, you. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. This is a moment we're having right here.
2:20.1	Yeah. It is. It's a beautiful moment. It's a beautiful moment that we're having right
2:23.8	here, that this film is so much more than a film. It's touched the zeitgeist in a way
2:29.5	that few things can, especially in the world, that is so overcrowded as we know. And one
2:35.4	of the things that moved me so is I was on Twitter and I saw this from actor Lovar Burton.
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