With the film is up for five Oscar nominations—including Best Picture and Best Actor—there is a lot of buzz around Will Smith's portrayal as Richard Williams, ...
If you try to tell an authentic story, from the people in Baltimore, it's their story, not ours. It's up to us to make sense of it. People are devoted to making these things for years, for someone else's enjoyment for an hour and a half or two hours, for enjoyment. It is absolutely important to share these moments and we're already here, we're at the big dance, so we'll see what happens. He devoted himself to the role, was as giving off screen as he was onscreen. Reinaldo Marcus Green: That you can make good movie [laughs]. It's not easy making these things, as a lot of things have to go into the filmmaking process.