Ashley Walters: ‘Locking people up 23 hours a day doesn’t work’
We speak to the actor-turned-filmmaker about his debut feature, Animol, a sensitive prison drama that follows a Black teenager navigating life inside a young offender institution
Black News 
Ashley Walters knows you might not have the highest expectations for his directorial debut feature. When I speak to the 44-year-old actor-turned-filmmaker a day before Animol comes out in cinemas, I tell him the coming-of-age thriller wasn’t what I expected. As I correct myself and struggle to find a more precise description for what I meant, Walters interjects: “Your average prison film?”
He laughs as I again stumble overhellip;
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