Randy Wilkins connects with Derek Jeter, subject of his seven-part ESPN documentary series, The Captain, on a few levels. For starters, Wilkins is a lifelong New York Yankees fan, and Jeter was the…
For starters, Wilkins is a lifelong New York Yankees fan, and Jeter was the linchpin of five World Series championships captured by the team between 1996 and 2009. In his filmmaking career, Wilkins also can relate. While he wasn’t a teen-ager like Jeter when he got his big break, getting the chance to tell the story of his hero resulted from a surprise endorsement from“In June 2020, he called me to check up on me,” Wilkins recalled in an interview.
Rodriguez was a surprise get, Wilkins said, given his complicated history with Jeter. The two became friends in high school and wound up in the media spotlight for years given they both played shortstop and were seen as the future of the sport. Subsequent betrayals of Jeter and his decision to move to third base when he was signed by the Yankees provide lively material.
Wilkins said his goal with sequences like the one documenting the flip play was “creating that larger context in which that play exists. Sometimes, they just show you the play and they’re talking about the brilliance of the play, but the context that the play lives within is just as important. What makes that scene work is there’s so much emotional investment with the team, with where the country was at the time, where the city was at the time.
When those comments are repeated to Jeter and his family on camera, their disdain is palpable. in terms of weighing in on topical societal issues. Former Yankee great Reggie Jackson says at one point that he needed to reach age 75 before feeling comfortable publicly addressing race.
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