‘I was stupid’: This respected actor, who was seen in Alien 3 and TV series Pundits spent more than a decade behind bars

Cinema talent going behind bars at some point in their time isn’t exactly news. It’s not for lack of examples; Apparently more or less serious for the facts. On this busy roster, for example, is Danny Trejo.

Thus, it will be 11 years in prison for armed flights and drug trafficking, before meeting, still in prison, Edward Bunker, the future author and screenwriter of Animal Factory. and, finallyTo pursue a career in the cinema, much less risky than his previous life.

“I considered myself a political prisoner”

Before becoming a respected actor, Charles Dutton served more than 10 years in prison. in the interview Los Angeles Times In January 1990, he revealed that he grew up in a tough neighborhood in Baltimore, where it was not uncommon for people to end up in jail. He ended up finding himself behind bars after a violent encounter turned into a knife fight that left a man dead.

“My conviction in killing comes from fighting with that guy he said. “I put the knife down and killed him. I was in jail for 18 months. Then I got three years for possession of the weapon. An extra eight years for fighting the guard.”

Add: “I was rich in prison. I was involved with the Panthers and left left movement. I considered myself a political prisoner. I was stupid. I was adapted to life in prison, but I was not conditioned. I will not decorate my cell”.

An assassination attempt was made against him, and the detainee stabbed him in the neck and sent him to the hospital for two months, convincing him that he had radically changed his trajectory. After earning a degree in prison, he once took a scholarship to Yale University in dramatic arts. “From Prison to Yale” A Los Angeles Times journalist writes.

“We tolerate anyone, even the unbearable”

Starting on the screen in 1985, in several episodes of series such as Two Cops in Miami, Charles Dutton is more distinguished by the public in 1992, in the film Alien 3 by David Fincher. He then portrayed the charismatic leader Dillon, forced to leave Sigourney with Weaver, between two discounts, to his fellow inmates with an iron bar and a sermon, each a powerful punchline.

Now 73, soon to be 74 on January 30, his birthday, Charles Dutton has played over a hundred roles. Or did we get to see it in a few movies like The Right to Kill? Word, Oz, FBI: Clever, Experts: Manhattan, American Horror Story or Zero Hour. The virtues of second chances.