For the actors in “Fences” everything was the same and everything was different.
Most of them were reprising the roles they had played in the 2010 Broadway revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1983 play by August Wilson, but most of them had to approach the material in new ways as they moved from stage to screen.
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