The formerly incarcerated cast of “Sing Sing” on trusting “white dudes” to tell their story, filming in a prison again after their release, and what it’s like making everyone cry.
He had a very specific idea, though. He wanted to be in a movie that centered around his time at Sing Sing Maximum Security Prison , where he and some of his fellow incarcerated men graduated from the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program.: a time-traveling Shakespearean satire where the protagonist encounters pirates, Prince Hamlet, and Freddy Krueger while on a trip to Egypt.
The film captures the ethos that everyone in RTA lived by: “We all vowed that we gonna use this as a mechanism and make sure we never come back.” Whitfield added. RTA’s philosophy is reflected in its report card, which shows that less than 3 percent of RTA alumni returned to Sing Sing—a figure that is exceedingly lower than the 60 percent U.S. national recidivism rate.
Soon, José “took off his bullshit cap,” read the screenplay, and was astonished that it “avoided everything we expect from so-called prison movies.” “How at ease can you be inside of a room that is inside of a dehumanizing institution? That was the whole struggle of every scene. How can you find your breath in the place that is telling you we don't want you to breathe?,” José explained.
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