Frances Fisher - Run The Race Interview

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00:00Talk to me about this film and why you guys wanted to be a part of it.

00:04Well, okay, ready? Rochambeau, who goes first?

00:06Rochambeau.

00:09I got a call from Chris Dowling, who's the director of a film we did called Where Hope Grows,

00:13and there was an actor who was supposed to play my part.

00:15He fell out, and it was about three or four days before they went to the camera.

00:19He called me up and said, hey, will you join me in this adventure?

00:23And I read the script. It was wonderful.

00:25I found out who was already involved, and between you and the Tebos,

00:29and I was like, this is going to be a pretty cool thing.

00:32And then, of course, the message of the film was just so encouraging and beautiful.

00:36Who wouldn't want to be a part of it?

00:38And for you?

00:39Jake McIntyre and I were doing a film in 2012 in Texas,

00:44and he said he had written a script and he wanted to figure out how to make it.

00:48I said, well, I don't know how to help you do that,

00:51but he sent me a sizzle reel, and I saw that, and I was like, this is a really good story.

00:57So I just encouraged him, kind of like Louise, I guess, you know?

01:03Yeah.

01:03Just said, you know, you'll find your way.

01:06And sure enough, four years later, he called me up and said,

01:09the Tebos are financing this movie.

01:13Yeah, we got some money, Mama.

01:14We got some money. Let's go.

01:17So we all ended up in Birmingham, Alabama in 2016, and here we are today.

01:24Wow. And were you guys both familiar with the Tebow brothers?

01:28And were you, like, your executive producers?

01:30They thought you were athletes? Like, talk to me a little about that.

01:32You were familiar. I had no idea.

01:35Tebow, you know, when I don't have a boyfriend, I don't know from sports at all.

01:41Earlier you called athletes actors.

01:43Did I?

01:44Yeah, you were like, you know, an actor. Not an actor, but a sports person.

01:47I was like, an athlete.

01:48I have a dog at home named Tebow.

01:53So my son, his role model and his childhood hero,

01:57all the way back from when Tebow was playing for Florida, in fact,

02:01and we watched when Tebow pulled the magic that he pulled in Denver.

02:05We were right there watching along with him.

02:06So we've been fans for a long time.

02:09And so when I got the job, my kid was ecstatic.

02:12He's like, wait, do you think I'll get to meet him?

02:14I get it.

02:14Yeah, but, yeah, and he did.

02:17Wow.

02:17So you read up on him.

02:18How did he do as an EP?

02:20Great, obviously.

02:21I don't think he was ever on the set when I was there.

02:25Robbie was.

02:25His brother, Robbie.

02:26His brother, Robbie, was.

02:27Crushed it, yeah.

02:28His brother, Robbie, was hands-on day-to-day.

02:31Yeah, yeah.

02:32Good, you know, it's managing.

02:35How much did you feel like your characters portrayed,

02:39like, how relatable did you feel like you could be to those characters?

02:42Well, I am like my character.

02:43Yeah.

02:45So it was easy for me.

02:46I just showed up.

02:47Me on my best day, I'm like my character,

02:50but there's a lot of other.

02:52Because we all have everything in us, right?

02:55We all have all these aspects of all these characters in this movie.

03:01I was thinking about how sprinkled about there are little messages that the kids get,

03:08and if you're open to hearing the messages from the universe, it can guide you on your way,

03:15and I think that's what Michael T., his character is about, and Mario Van Peebles.

03:23He's a positive force.

03:25You know, Louise, my character is.

03:28And then there's me.

03:30And then there's you.

03:32But you redeem yourself.

03:33Son of a bitch.

03:35You do.

03:36He does.

03:36He gets redeemed.

03:37And you're also now a grandma.

03:40Congratulations.

03:41How is that for you?

03:42Oh, my gosh.

03:43It's the best thing in the world.

03:45I just, I cannot wait to go back over there, you know, and I have to see pictures every day,

03:52because every day as a baby, you know, it just changes, and he's just delicious.

03:58A little cheeky, you want to eat the cheeks?

03:59You're like, oh, gosh.

04:00That neck.

04:02Do you have a nickname, or are you grandma?

04:05Well, he's not talking now, so, but he is going, gah, gah.

04:10See, he's saying grandma.

04:12Gah, gah.

04:14He does.

04:15Is it surreal for you as a mom to see your daughter as a mom?

04:19I'm just happy to see that she's embraced motherhood the way she has.

04:25She and her partner are really, really great parents.

04:29Very good.

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