We spoke w/ 'Winning Time's executive producer Rodney Barnes about shooting the basketball scenes, developing 'Things That Make White People Uncomfortable' for HBO, and more.
From co-creators Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, and with a pilot directed by executive producer Adam McKay, the 10-episode HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty follows the intertwining professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. What became one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties started with a vision set in motion when Dr.
RELATED: 'Winning Time': Tracy Letts, Jason Segel, and DeVaughn Nixon on Learning to Play Basketball and Portraying Their Characters BARNES: A weird thing was, at a certain point after the pilot, it became almost instinctual. There would be times we would write it in the script and it wouldn’t work, but there were also times when the actor would say, “You know what? I want to say that to camera,” and it would work. It was something that just came out from an improv place, but it’s always there to heighten character.
There’s something beautiful in that. That speaks to society at large and what the potential is for all of us. If you look at this show, that happens with men, it happens with women, it happens with everyone. The entire Laker organization comes together in the name of winning. Dr. Buss is the head because he’s the owner, but everyone has his passion for this thing, and they really, really, really wanna win. They create a family that does that and they create this dynasty.
BARNES: From information. Just about everybody, except Dr. Buss, wrote a book, so they gave us information about who they were and how they felt about things. A lot of articles were written. We did a massive amount of research about who these people were and read interviews that they had done. We took all of that stuff.
BARNES: It is the perfect time to make white people uncomfortable. I don’t know if there has ever been that time of human history, but if there has been, this would be that time.It leads to good conversation.
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