LaMarr Woodley Talks About Film School and the Top 5 Wolverines of All Time

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00:00All right, I'm with Lamar Woodley, Michigan football legend,

00:07Super Bowl winner with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:09Tell me what you're up to now.

00:10Right now I'm enrolled in film school.

00:13It's a film school in Troy, Michigan called Motion Pictures Institution.

00:17It's a year-long, four-days-a-week class.

00:20I go there from 6.30 to 10.30.

00:22It's hands-on.

00:23So I'm getting ready for film and production to help my production company grow.

00:27What type of films do you like making?

00:28You know, I'm into sports film.

00:31I'm creating some stuff now kind of like based around sports

00:34where I'm kind of educating athletes on pitfalls that a lot of athletes fall into

00:39once money comes into play.

00:41And it's not just money, but it's family, it's friends.

00:45It's those off-the-field decisions that will cost you a career.

00:49And some things that people really don't talk about.

00:51So it's some scripted stuff where I'm writing and directing.

00:55So a lot of stories about how to help athletes

00:58and just get on the right path and I guess what can go wrong.

01:01Yeah, you know, I think it's important to give some of your younger brothers information.

01:07You know, so they don't fall in the same pitfalls that you fell in.

01:10And I think that's just all about, you know, talking about it.

01:13Being comfortable talking about it.

01:15Not just a podcast standpoint,

01:17but sometimes you got to recreate the story and give somebody a visual.

01:19And that's what I'm doing with my production once I get out of film school.

01:24When did you think, like, wow, this is something I'm really interested in doing,

01:27taking that type of life lesson and putting it in film?

01:31When I got taken advantage of.

01:33There you go.

01:34I started thinking about that because, you know, as a creator,

01:37your mind going a lot of different places and you don't know exactly what to create of,

01:42what's your niche, what you want to create.

01:44And when I started to look back at my life,

01:46I realized a lot of stuff that I do is try to educate people

01:49and try to give them information so they can grow

01:51and not make the same mistake that you made.

01:53But once I realized I was somewhat of a creator back in 2011,

01:58well, I knew I was an artist before then.

02:01I mean, when I started, went to do films, I feel like this is my niche.

02:04This is my story.

02:05I'm an athlete.

02:06I experienced this background.

02:08I played at the highest level.

02:10I played at respectful places like Michigan, Pittsburgh Steelers.

02:16I've been All-American.

02:17I won awards.

02:18Not to tune my horn, but I guess I really am.

02:20But I played at the highest of the high.

02:26And I had a chance to experience stuff on and off the field

02:29and really taking advantage of really being a student athlete,

02:32going back to school and getting my master's degree

02:35in sports counseling, minor in sports management.

02:37That was back in 2017.

02:39And now I'm going back to school now,

02:41I'm educating myself on the next thing that I'm taking up on.

02:45What's your favorite thing about the whole filmmaking process?

02:47My favorite thing about the filmmaking process is the team thing.

02:52It kind of reminds me of football.

02:55It's a team thing.

02:56Everybody on that production plays a major role

02:58in making the project come to life,

03:00even people that you don't see.

03:02We see you right now on camera,

03:04but you can't see the man behind the camera holding the camera,

03:07making sure we stay in focus, making sure the sound is right.

03:10Now that you're in sort of a mentor role,

03:12what's one piece of advice you'd give to someone

03:14who's retiring from a professional sport that's called the NFL

03:17who might not become a broadcaster or a coach?

03:19They don't know exactly where they're going to go

03:21in the next chapter of life.

03:23You know, some advice that I would give to any athletes

03:25making the transition is that, man,

03:27they gave us so many skills being an athlete.

03:30You know, we'll go out here and play in zero-degree weather.

03:33We'll go out here playing with a broken arm.

03:35So they really mentally prepared you to do anything.

03:39They prepared us to play on Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthday.

03:43Somebody died.

03:44Go to the funeral, come back, and go to practice the next day.

03:47So you've been mentally prepared

03:49almost like you was in the military a little bit.

03:52My dad was in the military.

03:53That's how I kind of compare it a little bit

03:54because we talk about it.

03:56But those skills that you learn on the field

03:59is the same skills that I take in film production.

04:02Like I said earlier,

04:03it takes a team to create a good production.

04:06And that's how I run my production company like a team,

04:09you know, because we all work together

04:11to make the magic come to life.

04:13So what I'll tell athletes is just

04:16use the skills that they already gave you

04:17and learn how to take those skills

04:19and apply them somewhere else.

04:20And don't be afraid to do it.

04:22I like that.

04:23Who are your top five Michigan football players of all time?

04:25Ooh, shit.

04:27Excuse me.

04:28But no order.

04:29No order.

04:29Mike Hart.

04:31Jake Long.

04:33Charles Woodson.

04:34How many is that?

04:35Three.

04:36Oh, Lamar Woodley.

04:37Boom.

04:37You got to put him, man.

04:39All-American.

04:39Lombardi Award winner.

04:41Who I'm going to give that last spot to?

04:43Man, I'm going to give it to Braylon Edwards.

04:45Water Seager.

04:46Yeah, I'm going to give it to Braylon Edwards.

04:47Yeah.

04:48I mean, it's a lot of great Michigan athletes.

04:51And you already know how many

04:52give your top five how it is.

04:54But everybody can't be on the list, man.

04:56And I wasn't going to leave me off the list.

04:58So the numbers don't lie.

05:00You

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