Starring Colman Domingo and actors impacted by incarceration, the A24 film depicts the true story of a theater troupe in New York's Sing Sing facility—and how its members found healing.
JJ Velasquez came home from prison only 10 months before he began filming Sing Sing. In July of 2022, the actor found himself on set at a decommissioned prison in Fishkill, New York. Formerly known as Downstate Correctional Facility, it was meant to mimic the A24 film’s titular prison, a mere 40 minutes away.
Some moments were particularly difficult, such as when the fictional character Mike Mike dies. “That scene hit us all,” Maclin says, “because every one of us knows somebody who’s passed on the bid and is never gonna make it home.”The filmmakers were adamantly against using traumatic stories from the actors for the sake of a dramatic trailer cut. “We wanted to give the actors the space to offer what they would like … without being extractive,” Bentley says.
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