A film with which means. In September 2000, Remember the Titans debuted in theaters and shortly turned a favourite. Not solely was it led by an all-star forged, the story line was a robust one.
The flick is predicated on a real story, following African American soccer coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington) as he makes an attempt to combine a highschool in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1971. Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is moved to assistant coach, as star gamers Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) and Julius Campbell (Wood Harris) are put in place to run the staff. In addition to being a fantastic sports activities movie, it additionally features a robust underlying theme that collectively, irrespective of the colour of 1’s pores and skin, extra will be achieved.
The movie additionally kicked off many different stars’ careers, together with Donald Faison, Ryan Gosling, Ethan Suplee and Kip Pardue, all whose characters performed on the soccer staff. Hayden Panettiere and Kate Bosworth additionally starred.
“You want to do movies that teach youth, society and people about how other people feel and the right way to treat each other,” the Scrubs alum informed Us Weekly solely in 2017. “You want to do projects that have topics like that. It’s really challenging to hear people call you negative things regardless if they are acting or not — that’s very challenging to do. But you want to be a part of something that means something to people. I wouldn’t necessarily say it was challenging. It was a joy to be a part of something like that.”
In addition to the very highly effective theme of the movie, there was one other a part of the venture that stood out to Faison: The coaching.
“The one thing that we didn’t know before starting the movie was that they threw all of the actors into a football camp. We had to go through it — each and every one of us,” he informed Us at the time. “Some of us got injured really bad. We couldn’t understand why we were working so hard. We learned how to play football even though we had stunt doubles to do all this stuff. We got into fights, it was crazy! But we got out of it and we were a tight group. We hung out together. It made us very much like a team. We didn’t know each other before we started the camp. To go through all that brought us together and helped us out.”
Just like in the film, the stars had been up at dawn and had six-hour practices.
“When you push a sled with a football team, it’s like 30 guys pushing a sled for maybe 10 yards. It was sometimes nine of us pushing a sled for 100 yards. They worked us ridiculous,” he shared. “It was weeks of that so first week we did that, the second week they brought in the stunt doubles and worked out with them and last week we kind of had off and the stunt doubles learned all the plays and stuff like that.”
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