She struggled to manage it all, but she never had a hard time in school. I show her, for dramatic purposes, struggling through law school, but she didn’t really struggle through law school. Tony: I was just going to say: “and a brilliant person.” Betty Anne passed the Bar in two states on her first try, like that! (Tony snaps his fingers.) Jan: And she also learned she was a really smart person. She just had to keep going, and through that, she discovered this lioness within herself. ![]() She just literally can’t function with Kenny in jail-feels this compulsion to get him out or to fix it somehow.Īnd if you talk to Betty Anne, she says: “I never thought I could do it…” It was probably Kenny’s confidence in her that inspired Betty Anne to keep going, but it was just-there was no choice. When she sees her baby, baby “Richard”, Betty Anne says: “I don’t want to be like my mother.” But she’s thrust into this situation when her brother “Kenny” is incarcerated. So what Betty Anne wanted for herself was just simple normalcy: to be a mom and have a normal life. A very unstable parental situation, her mother was just not a mothering person. Betty Anne was in and out of foster care for several years. Both stories are about a woman who has a certain view of herself and through the experience, she becomes someone else.įor “Betty Anne” in CONVICTION, given the childhood that she had (I didn’t want to be melodramatic about it, but, in fact, much more difficult than what we portray), all she wanted was normalcy. Tony: I don’t remember saying that about CONVICTION, but I definitely felt that way about A WALK ON THE MOON, so I’ll take credit for it. I think I read a quote from you somewhere to the effect that, in both films, you and Pamela Gray wanted to look at periods of great social upheaval, so each film is centered on one woman who is working her way through this time of transition. So it’s an honor to tell you now, face-to-face, how genuinely moved I was by CONVICTION. Since I knew I was going to see a new film by the same team who did A WALK ON THE MOON, I walked into the screening room with very high expectations. Jan: I can’t pretend to be “neutral” here, Tony. ![]() Historical interpretation is not the job of film critics, historical interpretation is the job of historians. As I’ve said in the past, I don’t know any of the people depicted in this story, so I cannot and will not judge them.Īs a film critic, my job is to describe how art elucidates the human condition. ![]() Jan Chats about ‘Conviction’ with director Tony Goldwyn & screenwriter Pamela GrayĮDITOR’S NOTE: The first time each character is discussed, her name is introduced in quotes to remind FF2 readers that this interview is about “characters” rather than “real people.” Although CONVICTION is clearly based on a true story involving real people, fitting their story into a cinematic narrative required judicious use of dramatic license (several instances of which are described below).
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