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Did you know Barry Jenkins played football? Before this director made history as a Black director, he was passing the pigskin and he revealed that he's working on a sports movie.
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00:00I was reading an article earlier today that you were running back in high school, and I always like knowing kind of like a backstory of a director before they got into film, but I'm curious, are there any like sports figures or stories that you would like to bring to the screen having that knowledge?
00:15Yeah, I mean, the first script I ever wrote was a high school football movie about my high school football teams called The Soul Bowl, and I think I'm going to make it someday, because I think when you watch these films, these sports films, especially high school sports films, they're always about some small town in Texas or Indiana or somewhere, and that's fine, but I never see the story of the cats I grew up with or the team I played on, so yeah, at some point I do want to make that film.
00:40That'll be really cool to see.
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