00:00Well, tell us about bringing a league of their own, you know, back to life.
00:03I feel like this has been talked about for so long, and now it's here.
00:06Yeah, we've been working on it since 2017.
00:08But it's funny, it's like lining up with the 30th anniversary of the film.
00:12Like, we did not plan that.
00:14But I'm like, I'm happy it took this long, because it really feels like a perfect time for it to come out.
00:20And, yeah, like, from the initial conversations, Will Graham and I, he's the co-creator with me.
00:26It was never about, you know, remaking this movie.
00:30It does not need to be remade.
00:32And listen, you can watch your favorite movie whenever you want.
00:36It's people's favorite movie.
00:37Yes, it is.
00:38So there's a lot of pressure.
00:40But it's really about reimagining it.
00:42And, you know, Penny Marshall made this film in 1992.
00:47She was inspired by a documentary that she saw that was about the All-American Girls Baseball League, Professional Baseball League.
00:53She made this incredible film that inspired so many people.
00:55And also, there were limitations of the story she could tell in 92.
01:00We wanted to tell the stories that were overlooked, that were marginalized at the time,
01:06and talk about this generation of women who played baseball and who were fucking bad at it.
01:14Like, I mean, bad asses at it, not bad at it.
01:17They were incredible at it.
01:18And so what happens when, you know, there's a scene in the film that's like Penny acknowledging and nodding to the fact that a black woman would not have been allowed to try out.
01:28And then nothing.
01:30And ours is about, well, what happens when that door opens for some women, white women and white passing women?
01:35And what happens when it closes for everyone else?
01:38How do they go find their team?
01:40And once we started doing the research on it, it was just sort of like, these stories are important.
01:47I did not know these women's names before we started doing this.
01:51And I think people watching it, you will know these stories that are really important.
01:55And I think really important to sports history.
01:58And I never thought I'd be like in trying to tell sports history, but I feel very honored to be a part of doing that.
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