Director Reinaldo Marcus Green felt a personal connection to the story of Venus and Serena Williams' childhood in 'King Richard.'
Crowd-pleasing drama ‘King Richard’ could earn Will Smith his first Oscar, playing the father of tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams.I’m the same age as Serena, I grew up an athlete and I had a very unconventional father, similar to Richard Williams. I spent the first third of my life on a baseball field, and my dad almost brainwashed us in a way, like, “You’re going to love this thing.
I think the biggest discovery for me in talking to them was how instrumental the whole family was. When they went to the court, all the sisters went; they were picking up balls, they were in the van, they were doing their homework. Mom was coaching and she was working full-time. It was a full family affair. I thought that made for a fascinating story, to really dive into those spaces that we didn’t know about.
I never met with Richard. I really wanted to but I was told that his health was not great and he was battling some things at the time we were making the movie. I don’t believe that Will ever met Richard either. It just was one of those things that just didn’t come to fruition. But in terms of performance, the movie is not about tennis — it’s about what you’re feeling as a young girl when you step on the court for the first time. What is it like being out there alone? I don’t think there’s another sport quite like tennis, where you’re truly on an island. We did a lot of work there.
Will is a father of a daughter, and he just knew right away what that was like and he was very vulnerable in this film. He’d get choked up talking about certain scenes. We completely bonded as parents and that was something we clicked on.
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