the park last night is a
suspect.
>> "When they see us" has been
>> It takes an emotional look at
a case that made headlines
involving the wrongful
conviction of the central park
>> Blair Underwood plays an
attorney in this series.
>> Good to see you again.
>> Now known as the exonerated
>> Do you remember when this was
unfolding?
>> I do.
It was 1989 when it started.
I was doing "L.A. Law" at the
time.
I was hoping and praying that it
wasn't true.
That they had not done this
terrible act.
So crossing fingers.
It was years later, 14 years
after that, they were
exonerated.
>> And released from prison.
>> And the city paid
$41 million.
They don't get their life back,
but it was something.
>> This series sends you
through -- basically every
single emotion you could
possible feel.
There were people who told me
they had to stop it.
But they get back to you.
What would you say is the thing
that you hope people muster the
courage to see this for.
>> I hear that all of the time.
It's educational.
It's important because not much
as changed.
We were talking about sephora
and Oprah, that's something
fries compared to these boys --
I say boys because they're 14,
15 years old.
But their lives were turned
completely upside down.
>> Let's hang on that.
Because they are boys.
When this was happening, they
were portrayed as villains and I
feel the key to this particular
series is that we see them as
the little boys that they are
with their families having this
incredibly difficult time.
Do you feel like that message
has been portrayed throughout
the entire piece and now now you
know who they are?
>> Absolutely.
You go under those layers and
you see their humanity which is
necessary.
Then they were talking about
their animals and they could be
thrown away.
There were four pages taken out
by our president calling for the
death penalty days after this
happened.
You see the humanity and the
children --
>> They're babies.
>> As a parent, I was saying, I
felt so helpless watching this.
What kind of emotions did it
invoke in you?
>> My wife and I watched it
together.
She cried and I got angry that
sense of powerlessness.
And I watched it with my sons
and daughters and as young
African-American men,
especially, that sensitive of
profound powerlessness, there
are times when they walk out
that door, I can't be there all
the time.
>> Ava is able to talk about the
criminal justice system and how
it doesn't necessarily work for
you.
As you talked about, being
helpless and hopeless, and here
you are playing a divorce
attorney representing a huge
criminal trial.
How is that possible?
Explain the role.
>> Bobby was the divorce
attorney for one of the mothers.
He knew them and it was a
personal thing and the family
trusted him.
But he was a divorce attorney.
He had never done criminal law.
He was in over his head at the
time.
>> Blair, incredible job.
>> Everybody needs to watch that
and watch it with your children
to make sure --
>> We got to give a shout-out.
Is it true -- we have a little
game we're going to play.
Your mother at age 82 is going
to college.
>> That's right.
[ Cheers and applause ]
>> That's amazing.
>> What's her name?
>> Marilyn Underwood.
>> Get it, Marilyn.
>> Look at her.
Look at mama.
>> Is it true that you gave Nick
Jonas priyanka Chopra's number?
We heard.
>> I didn't.
>> You have cuff links given to
you from the Obama white house.
>> That is true.
>> I look a mug.
It was not given to me.
>> Wait, you played Miranda's
boyfriend on "Sex and the city."
>> The hot doctor.
Miranda, get it together.
[ Cheers and applause ]
>> What you all can't see, our
whole set said yes.
It's so good to see you, man.
"When they see us" is available
now.
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