>> i'm from the hood, you know, not to separate the hood from anything. shakespeare was something, you know, i never thought i would experience in my life. you know, since i came in contact with shakespeare, i see a lot of those parallels that correlate with urban life. >> essentially macbeth and the rest of the characters are committing either immoral, unethical or criminal acts. where we would say criminal acts, right? of course, that's what we're in here for, committing criminal acts. so it's made me more introspective. >> the sky has the residue of sunlight, but it fades away like butter on cornbread. macbeth is getting rid of them. that's how he keep his hands clean. he's going to have the lower ranking ones do the job for him so he don't have to. >> just days before our shoot, inmate iris white had completed a 3 1/2-year shu term and had