![]() I mean, they needed to get the tools smuggled in and they needed access. On if Matt and Sweat could have broken out without help from prison employees So that was part of, I think for us, telling this story was trying to show that ecosystem that exists in there and how all of those factors contributed to the escape.” “You get that feeling like this isn't really helping people though, you know, it's obviously a necessary thing. Then you see just how tough it is for the inmates too. And there's not a lot of incentive to put yourself on the line. But what I learned was that the corrections officers who work in these prisons are not motivated to really necessarily take chances that they would have to to do their jobs really well because of how dangerous it is, and there's a sort of generational complacency that has happened in some of these prisons because people have worked there for years and years at very low pay. As I got to know the people who were working there and the systems that are in place there, I learned a lot about what's not working in the prison system, which we know I think, if you're aware of what's going on in our country, we know that the prison system is flawed. “One of the biggest things that just hit me at first was just how heavy and oppressive the feeling was in the prison and that prison has been there, Clinton Correctional, has been there for over 100 years, and you feel the weight of it. I think there were mixed feelings going in there with us.” I think for the corrections officers there they were concerned about how we were going to portray the story. So we went through that tailor shop, and I think for them, it was probably a little bit inconvenient that we were filming there. We went into the tailor shop where Tilly Mitchell, who Patricia Arquette plays, worked and the two inmates worked, and she was a civilian supervisor. “I didn't have a chance to interact with the prisoners as much. On how prisoners and employees reacted to filming at Clinton Correctional ![]() So how does that actually happen? What are the steps that occur? How do the relationships form? And who helped who, and how do you actually cut your way out of a cell in 2015 without anybody knowing?” So I really kept on going back to what actually happened, and I thought, 'Why not just try to just tell the story as realistically as possible?' Because I think we've seen a lot of prison escape movies or television shows, and what's interesting to me about this one is that it actually happened. “It was important to me only because I didn't know a lot about this world, and I felt a little bit scared I was gonna get it wrong. “But then also we wanted to let the audience know what they did to get in there so that if you are rooting for them, you're going to be hopefully a little confused as to why you're rooting for them.” Interview Highlights “To actually see what the day-to-day life was in there, especially for these two inmates, was important, I think, so you could sort of get why they were working so hard to get out,” he says. Staying true to the story was very important to Stiller, who says he wanted to portray just how horrible the conditions in the prison were that led the two inmates to escape. “And as we learn more about it and the human relationships that were going on in that prison between the people who work there and the inmates, that to me was really fascinating.” “I was very curious about how something like this could actually happen,” Stiller says. Border Patrol agents and a couple days later, Sweat was captured by a state trooper. Almost three weeks after their escape, Matt was shot and killed by U.S. Matt and Sweat, who were both in prison for murder, escaped the Clinton Correctional Facility by digging a tunnel out with tools given to them by prison employees. Stiller says what drew him to the story was how “fantastic” it was that these events happened. The series, which is directed and executive produced by actor Ben Stiller, was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards. The seven-episode series stars Benicio Del Toro and Paul Dano as the inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat, and Patricia Arquette as Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell, the prison employee who helped them break out of the prison. The Showtime limited series "Escape at Dannemora" tells the true story of how two inmates escaped from a prison in upstate New York in 2015. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) This article is more than 3 years old. Ben Stiller arrives at the 71st annual DGA Awards at the Ray Dolby Ballroom on Saturday, Feb.
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