A movie with meaning. September 2000 Remember the TitansThe film was soon a popular choice and debuted in theaters. The story was compelling and led by an all star cast.
The film is based upon a true story about Herman Boone, an African American football coach.Denzel WashingtonAs he attempts to integrate a high-school in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, he is joined by ) Bill Yoast (Will Patton) is moved to assistant coach, as star players Gerry Bertier (Ryan Hurst) and Julius Campbell (Wood HarrisTo run the team, a number of people (e.g. ) are appointed. In addition to being a great sports film, it also includes a strong underlying theme that together, no matter the color of one’s skin, more can be accomplished.
The film also kicked off many other stars’ careers, including Donald Faison, Ryan Gosling, Ethan SupleeAnd Kip PardueAll of these characters played on the football sideline. Hayden PanettiereAnd Kate BosworthAlso 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 told Us WeeklyExclusively 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 be a part that matters to people. I wouldn’t necessarily say it was challenging. It was a joy to be a part of something like that.”
Faison was drawn to the film’s powerful themes, but Faison also loved the training.
“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 told Usat the time. “Some of us got injured really bad. We couldn’t understand why we were working so hard. We learned football even though we had to use stunt doubles. It was insane how many fights we got into. We got out of it, and we became a tight group. We hung out together. It made us feel 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.”
The stars were up at dawn and had six-hour practices, just like the movie.
“When you push a sled with a football team, it’s like 30 guys pushing a sled for maybe 10 yards. Sometimes it was nine of us pushing the sled for 100 meters. 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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