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ALFRE WOODARD’S MOMENT In Clemency, the celebrated actress gives a master class performance in quiet restraint. The Oscar buzz has already begun. BY STEVE GARBARINO
Alfre Woodard has earned a long hot bath, and she’s taking it. “I just filled my tub with botanical oils and Epsom salts—my morning chill time,” she says one recent morning from the Santa Monica home she shares with her husband of 26 years, screenwriter Roderick Spencer. The reprieve comes 16 months after nonstop work on television and film projects. Following indelible roles in The Lion King, Fox’s Empire, Marvel’s Luke Cage, and an upcoming film called Fatherhood, what’s the
wildly versatile, Oscar-nominated, multiple-Emmy award-winning actress been doing? Largely, a lot of prison time. It may take a while to wash it off. Woodard, who co-stars as a tribal priestess alongside Aquaman actor Jason Momoa in Apple TV’s sci-fi epic See (November 1), recently completed her lead role as the prison warden of a maximum security men’s facility. Led by Woodard’s complexly nuanced performance, Clemency took the Grand Jury Prize at
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