![]() Michael B Jordan as Bryan Stevenson and Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian in Just Mercy. Lesson one, Bright told him, was: “Capital punishment means, ‘Them without the capital get the punishment’.” ![]() ![]() ![]() The firm’s director, a towering figure in death penalty jurisprudence named Stephen Bright, took Stevenson under his wing and taught him justice, southern-style. He was 23 and a student at Harvard law school when his professor suggested he take an internship in Atlanta, Georgia, with a not-for-profit legal firm. It is based on the 2014 memoir of the same name in which Stevenson, 60, relates how he came to find himself representing some of the most godforsaken prisoners in the country. His epic six-year struggle to prove McMillian an innocent man provides the narrative arc of Just Mercy. ![]() That phrase could stand as a catchphrase for the ingrained racial injustice that Bryan Stevenson, the rookie lawyer played in the film by Michael B Jordan, has devoted his adult life to fighting.įrom his first meeting with McMillian in 1988 to his star billing today as a one of America’s most incisive commentators on race and inequity – and now as a fully fledged Hollywood icon – Stevenson has never taken his eyes off the prize. ![]()
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