00:01It's important to remind everybody in this country that, you know, we're a melting pot, but we are one people.
00:12And we're made up of so many different kinds of cultures, so many nationalities.
00:18And it's important to keep that culture, those singular cultures, and hold on to that because that's part of who
00:26you are.
00:26And it's also part of what makes this country very strong.
00:33We wanted to do inspiring, aspirational, underdog type of movies.
00:40Underdogs have always been attracted to.
00:43And American Dream stories, origin stories, because those are the kinds of movies I love, you know, and movies that
00:53really touch the heart.
00:53Right. And this story, when the script came along, I grew up in Texas, and I'd never heard this story
01:01before.
01:03And it's, you know, it's to me, the story is like one nail in this big, huge place that, you
01:12know, called the United States that, you know, we're building all together.
01:15And they make it really better.
01:18And it's these five Mexican-American kids that, you know, South Texas, Del Rio are right there on the border.
01:28And they feel like they don't belong, they have this sense of belonging, kind of not quite here in the
01:36United States.
01:36And they go across the border to Mexico, and they don't quite feel that, you know, they have a sense
01:42of belonging there.
01:43And they're walking that line.
01:44They're caddies at a country club.
01:47And they, they can't play at that country club because of the color of their skin and their culture.
01:53And it was a time of segregation.
01:57And so they, they built their own golf course out in the desert.
02:01They built, you know, one hole and several ways to come at it to make different holes.
02:08And then they started a high school, in their high school, a golf team.
02:13And Jay Hernandez's character, he was, he was the coach.
02:17He was a real person as well.
02:19And I was, my character is the pro at that country club.
02:24But I become, the boys really kind of like touch me in a way because I see how genuine they
02:32are and enthusiastic and dedicated they are.
02:35And I become the white face that gets them in these tournaments that, you know, they're supposedly not allowed to
02:43play.
02:43Well, their very first year in competition, they won the Texas State Championship at the country club where they couldn't
02:54play.
02:54And what poetic justice was that.
02:57And it's, you know, it just makes you, it makes you proud of, to me, it makes me proud of
03:04America.
03:05That stories like that, you know, happen here.
03:08And especially in that time, in the time of that it was, because that really progressed things, you know.
03:15And this story was almost forgotten.
03:18And, but they had a lot to do with those five kids that changed their lives.
03:21And they went on to, you know, have a great effect on other people.
03:25And it's a beautiful story.
03:30And so you were born a year before this movie was set and in Texas.
03:34It's some of the stuff that we are seeing.
03:37Did you come face to face with seeing that stuff around?
03:40Oh, yeah.
03:40Well, I grew up and, you know, I was born in 54.
03:43For, you know, I remember separate bathrooms, restrooms, or drinking fountains, you know, separate place of people of color had
03:53to sit in the balcony.
03:55And it was, I remember, you know, being a kid and thinking that was weird.
04:01You know, why is this?
04:03And, but it was, you know, that world.
04:07So the movie, I think, does a good job of representing that world the way it was and to remind
04:15us of where we were back then or instruct for those that, you know, were born, you know, from 1980
04:25on or whatever and how far we've come.
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