‘Boroughs’ actor Alfre Woodard reminds us to look to our elders

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Listen to the Life Kit podcast in the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley, and my guest today is award-winning actor Alfrey Woodard. We've been watching her on television, film, and the stage for decades. She has played wives, mothers, nurses, friends, lovers, and prison wardens, women carrying their families through the ordinary and the unimaginable. Her work in a very real way has become a record of American life.

Now she's in a new sci fi Netflix series called The Burrows from the creators of Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers have said the show exists because they couldn't understand why no one had made another cocoon since Cocoon, the 1985 film about retirees who discover a fountain of youth. Well, forty years later, they've set their version in an upscale retirement community in New Mexico, where something supernatural is preying on the residents. Woodard plays Judy, a retired journalist who was sidelined in her career but hasn't let go of her instincts. She lives in the community with her husband, played by Clark Peters, and when a recent widower moves next door,

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