Woody Harrelson On What The Young 'Champions' Cast Taught Him While Making The Basketball Comedy
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00:00 I really loved the sense of community this film kind of gave off.
00:04 I was wondering what your experience was of building a sense of community among each other
00:09 and the Friends team on set.
00:11 I think it just happened very naturally.
00:16 You know, Bobby didn't want me to meet them until we all met, you know, really for the
00:22 first time, which I thought was a great idea.
00:28 And you know, so we met for the first time on film in the same way that Marcus first
00:33 met them.
00:35 And that was really wild, you know, because usually you almost inevitably meet the actors
00:43 ahead of time.
00:46 And so whatever trepidation I had about, well, are we going to do the script or we're going
00:51 to throw the script out or how is this, you know, was immediately just made silly because
00:58 it was just, it was fun.
01:01 They were highly professional and just, they taught me a lot about what it means to be
01:09 a real actor, you know, like to just be your authentic self in the moment.
01:15 And it was really a great experience.
01:18 Yeah, there was a lot of playing too.
01:20 I mean, you know, the cameras would cut and we were typically on some basketball court
01:26 or another and we just would hang out and play and that's sort of how we all got to
01:30 know each other.
01:31 So it was, it was truly just a fun shoot on and off camera.
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