Why Jussie? Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

Reid This Reid That

Joy Ann Reid and Jacque Reid

News, Politics

4.6 • 881 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The play cousins join Queen Bey and her King in celebrating Princess Meghan. And of course almost the entire show is dedicated to dissecting the Jussie Smollett case. Special guest, legal analyst Midwin Charles, helps Joy Ann and Jacque examine every angle of the situation, including what Olivia Pope would do to fix it.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome to read this read that I'm Jackie Reed I'm Joanne Reed
0:08.1	Okay Joanne you know I'm always telling you about new things coming on TV
0:10.6	There was a new film from HBO Films.
0:13.2	O.G. for meering this Saturday at 10 p.m.
0:15.6	You do not want to miss it.
0:16.5	What's it about?
0:17.2	Okay, it stars Jeffrey Wright.
0:18.4	Let's start with that.
0:19.8	Right.
0:20.8	And he is playing a prisoner who's in the final weeks of his 24-year sentence in a maximum security prison.
0:26.0	It takes an intimate and unflinching look at the journey of one man at the precipice of freedom.
0:31.0	After nearly a quarter century behind bars,
0:33.7	he must confront the impact of his actions
0:36.3	and the challenges of reentering society.
0:38.6	Wow, that's deep.
0:39.3	Where was it filmed?
0:40.1	Girl in a real prison facility.
0:43.0	Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana,
0:45.5	and the cast actually includes men that are incarcerated there.
0:49.0	You know, I feel like I heard about this film before,
0:50.5	didn't it premiere at Tribeca Film Festival?
0:52.5	It did and Jeffrey Wright won the award for Best Actor in a US
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