Dennis Quaid, Jay Hernandez & Cast of ’The Long Game’ on Telling The True Story of A Chicano High School Golf Team

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Julian Works, Julio Quintana, Brett Cullen, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Dennis Quaid, and Jay Hernandez discuss their film 'The Long Game' at SXSW 2023.

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00:00I shot the rookie here, and Jay played my student slash player.

00:06He was my coach.

00:07Yeah.

00:08How many years ago was that?

00:09How many years ago?

00:10It was like 20 years ago.

00:11Almost exactly, and now he's the coach.

00:21Well, this was brought to me by producer Javier Ciampa, who also had brought me my last true story.

00:27And when he brought it to me, Jay was involved.

00:29Oh.

00:30But I decided to do it anyways.

00:32Yeah.

00:33In spite of.

00:34I was like, it's all right.

00:35I can do that.

00:36We can work for this.

00:37And so Jay and I kind of spent several months talking about the script and developing it

00:41more and expanding the character, and then Dennis came on board, and then it was just all these

00:47guys followed after it.

00:49Julian plays like the Jay character.

00:51Yeah.

00:52He actually is the troubled youth.

00:53Yeah.

00:54So it's a full circle.

00:55I guess now I got to do a project where I play a coach.

00:57Yeah.

00:58For 20 years.

00:59Yeah.

01:00We'll be in Smithville doing some tennis movie.

01:03Yeah.

01:04Maybe tennis.

01:05I feel like there's some sort of responsibility given my place in the business to have a counterbalance

01:11to the narrative that is commonly out there about Latin people, about Mexican Americans,

01:16about, you know, Chicanos, whatever term you want to describe us as.

01:22And I feel like it's incumbent upon us, people who do ascend to a certain level in the business,

01:27to sort of do something with that and find a platform to bring on, you know, young talent

01:32and tell stories that, you know, sort of we take ownership of.

01:37It's a true story.

01:38Number one, these high school kids, Chicano high school kids in the 50s, you know, that segregation

01:46and discrimination was going on.

01:49There were caddies at Del Rio Country Club, but they couldn't play there, of course.

01:54They built their own golf course in the desert, you know, had one hole and nine ways to come

01:58to it.

01:59And they started a team in high school and they won the state championship at the very country

02:05club where they couldn't play.

02:07And that, you know, for that time, it's just like unheard of.

02:13And it's a great underdog story and it's authentic.

02:19And that's what we tried to reflect in doing it is just to be real.

02:25I fell in love with the story.

02:27I just, if it wasn't for this role, I just want to, I just wanted to watch it or be an audience member

02:32because I, I learned about this.

02:35I didn't even know that this story existed.

02:37And it's just so heartwarming and inspiring.

02:41And, and I love, I mean, I'm just honored to be here with all of these because I think

02:46everyone here is super talented and amazing.

02:50It kind of like resembles even like now, like what, I mean, Joe Trivino, he was a dreamer.

02:55There was obstacles in front of him that he had to face.

02:57And I just felt connected to the struggle, connected to, to the dream that he had.

03:02And then once I found out the cast, I was like, Oh my God.

03:05Like, of course, this is, you know, a dream come true.

03:07And you're an amazing golf instructor.

03:09I will say you gave me some pointers.

03:11I only play once a day to kind of go back to the rookie again, which is not about baseball.

03:18It's about second chances.

03:27two by .

03:28Two by .

03:31We have to make a move."

03:35We have to make a move here.

03:37The good thing, so I can stand.

03:39You know, stuff was...].

03:40There was a selfie when you checked out all of the lid.

03:44So if you had such friends, you missed out.

03:46One.

03:47That's right.

03:48This is so, okay.

03:50I'm excited for watching those videos.

03:51Have fun.

03:52I didn't do all this.

Dennis Quaid, Jay Hernandez & Cast of ’The Long Game’ on Telling The True Story of A Chicano High School Golf Team | SXSW 2023

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