Tonya Mosley

You've done prestige television.

What is it about playing in 100-seat theaters and devoting your time to it?

What do you think it is about the theater

to be able to articulate the story that you're telling in Topsy Turvy that can't really be told anywhere else?

And when you say we...

Let's go back to a young Tim Robbins.

Is it true that you started acting with a street theater group at 12?

Yeah.

First off, how does a 12-year-old find a live theater group on the street?

Like, how did that happen?

Call and response.

Was it kind of like a call and response, though?

Those were some really good lessons for you as an actor, as a performer.

At the end of the film, right.

Two things you're saying that, first off, I don't think we here in the United States are used to thinking about the media that we consume as propaganda.

Well, that word is often just used to talk about

media from other parts of the world.

It's never really used in the American context.

When did you start to realize that or come to that understanding or that idea that movies in particular could be a form of propaganda?

And when was, take us to the time.