Woodard makes fervent appeal to get out and vote on Super Tuesday, no matter who they support

By Jeffrey Jolson

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Hollywood Today) 2/2/07 — Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard called upon Americans of all stripes to vote in Super Tuesday’s election no matter which candidate they chose, saying it was crucial in a passionate video interview: “You have to stand up and take responsibility. This is not the SuperBowl or ‘American Idol,’ you have to get out and vote. Fundamental change after the last eight years isn’t just a campaign slogan, it’s a necessity.”

She was even more ardent in her support for Barack Obama for president. He is “insightful, balanced and inspired, she told the Hollywood Today cameras at a recent Hollywood luncheon for advocacy group Creative Coalition. (See Alfre’s HT video)

“He has the ability to bring disparate people together to solve problems,” she said. “That’s the true historic thing that’s about to happen – not that he’s not a woman, not that he happens to be African American, it’s that we would be putting a thinker in who has the ability to work for the common good.”

Film and TV actress Woodward, known for “Desperate Housewives,” “Cross Creek,” “Star Trek: First Encounter” and 40 other films and dozens of TV series, turned directly to the video camera to take her get-out-the-vote plea right to the and says “I know that everybody is going to go out and vote on Super Tuesday Feb. 5. You must go out and vote. Whoever you vote for, just get up and vote on Super Tuesday.”

Video interview by Alex Ben Block, Producer/camera Mialyn Hanna. Photo by Judith Orr