Ahmed Kathrada, Prisonmate of Mandela for 26 Years, on 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom'

THR's awards analyst chats with the 84-year-old, who was one of Mandela's oldest and closest friends and was present for many of the events chronicled in the film. "I think that it's a very good portrayal of the book," Ahmed Kathrada, 84, told me by phone from his home in South Africa when I asked him last week what he thought of the new film Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Noting that he has seen it several times, he continued, "Naturally, with a book like that, which encompasses several hundred...