WATCH: Laurence Fishburne Shares What Drew Him to Play Doc Rivers in "Clipped"

The veteran tells what surprised him about the controversy and what he thought about the show after reading the scripts.

Transcript

00:00 I was not surprised that an owner of a basketball team

00:05 like the Clippers would have some of these racist attitudes.

00:09 I wasn't surprised by that.

00:10 What I was surprised by was the fact

00:13 that he was held accountable and responsible

00:15 and then subsequently had to sell his team.

00:17 That surprised me.

00:18 And I thought, "Oh, that's interesting."

00:19 So when I read the scripts, what was great was,

00:23 as you said, there's this confluence of racism, sexism,

00:26 money, power, wealth, fame, influence, social media,

00:31 like the whole gamut.

00:34 And it's written in such a beautiful, intelligent,

00:37 and humorous way that I thought,

00:40 "Okay, these are the things that I like talking about.

00:44 These are the kind of issues that I like to deal with

00:46 in terms of the stories that I want to tell."

00:48 (upbeat music)