Courtney B. Vance ('Genius: Aretha') on his portrayal of C.L. Franklin: 'Pastors weren't all saints'

"Anybody who is of that generation that came from that great migration from the deep South, leaving sharecropping days, they were harmed," explains Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance while discussing his portrayal of Reverend C.L. Franklin in the National Geographic bioseries "Genius: Aretha." "Everyone was harmed in that situation. The psychosis was deep. And we're still feeling the ramifications of that psychosis, that psychoticness of telling a people that we have complete control over your entire bodies, minds and souls." Watch Vance's exclusive video interview with Gold Derby's Denton Davidson. 

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