'Hustle' Movie Cast Interview

Cinema Blend

“Hustle" CinemaBlend’s Sean O’Connell talks with Adam Sandler, Juancho Hernangomez, Anthony Edwards and Director Jeremiah Zagar.

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00:00I'm Sean O'Connell from CinemaBlend.

00:03Gentlemen, how are you, sir?

00:05Hello.

00:06He's like doing his Instagram or something.

00:08I don't know what he's doing.

00:10I was watching my pictures yesterday

00:13with my friend LeBron James and some random guy.

00:16Like, me!

00:17You?

00:18He's got pictures of him, LeBron, and me together.

00:21And he's so excited.

00:22I thought it was a fan.

00:23A fan?

00:24You.

00:25Oh, no.

00:25It's Adam Sandler.

00:26Let's get to work.

00:34How are you, man?

00:35I'm wonderful.

00:36I love this movie.

00:37I cannot wait for people to check it out.

00:39I'm really excited.

00:39Thank you.

00:40Thanks.

00:41Adam, I want to start with you.

00:42Is there such a thing as trash talking in the acting

00:44community?

00:45Oh, that's good.

00:45That's a great question.

00:46Get your hands off of me, man.

00:48I talk a lot of trash when we're shooting.

00:50Yeah, when we're shooting, I would

00:52have an amazing take going.

00:54And Wancho, because he's from the NBA world of trash talking,

00:58would just start saying nasties.

01:00I'd be like, that's not in the script, homie.

01:02Don't do that.

01:03Let me finish my line.

01:04He'd be like, your mother's this, and your mother's that.

01:08No.

01:08No, the answer is no.

01:09There's only support in this town.

01:13I don't think it goes that deep, no.

01:16Yeah, I don't think they get too disrespectful in the games.

01:19But in the movie, I get really disrespectful.

01:21So yeah, it's crazy.

01:23There are some things that you say that I felt went over

01:26the line.

01:26Yeah, a lot of things that I'm saying over the line.

01:29Does that level of trash talk or trash talk

01:32begin all the way back to when you're kids?

01:35At what level of playing does it really start to kick in?

01:38Oh, you're trapped, man.

01:39The kids that I see now today, that's

01:41like fifth grade, fourth grade, they talking trash.

01:44We wasn't talking trash back then.

01:46But they's talking trash already because the game

01:49is evolving year after year after year.

01:52So I mean, it's getting pretty bad.

01:55Where you from?

01:56Spain, sounds weird.

01:58You think you can stop me?

01:59Welcome to America.

02:01I love the moment when Adam's character has

02:03to pull out his phone and call Dirk Nowitzki

02:06to prove that he is who he is as a talent scout.

02:09So I'm curious, who's the most famous person

02:10you have in your phone contacts?

02:13Adam.

02:14Yeah, by far.

02:16Yeah, definitely.

02:18Definitely the most famous person I know.

02:20Oh yeah, how about you?

02:21Who's the most?

02:22In your contacts, who is the most?

02:24I know you got some NBA guys.

02:25No, I think probably you.

02:27Me?

02:28Don't ever call me.

02:29Oh my god.

02:30Don't ever use that number.

02:32When I'm trying to show somebody who I am,

02:35I probably would call Pat Bev.

02:39Yeah, I call Pat Bev, yeah.

02:42That's what I would call, I call Pat Bev.

02:44Who is the most famous in your phone?

02:47Oh, I got so many, it's insane.

02:49Oh, wow.

02:51Name somebody, you just name a famous person,

02:54I'll tell you if they're in my phone.

02:55OK, you got Barack Obama?

02:57No.

02:58Hell yes.

03:00Well, not Obama, but a guy who knows.

03:03OK.

03:04That wasn't him, that wasn't even close to him.

03:07Wancho, please don't tell my children I said this,

03:09but I have two sons and the second one is better

03:11at basketball than the first.

03:13Because he played against his older brother the entire time

03:16and played up.

03:17I was curious if that was similar to your experience.

03:19I mean, different games.

03:21Yeah, my brother and me, we are different games.

03:25He's great at what he does, I'm great at what I do.

03:28We both won with national team, world championships.

03:31That's probably the best accomplice

03:33we'll have winning with your country.

03:35And I'm so proud of him, what he achieved, how hard he worked,

03:40how he became as a player and as a person.

03:42And we love so much each other.

03:44He's not just a brother, we are best friends.

03:47Right, certainly can grab a rebound too.

03:50Taking me to see basketball or bare knuckle boxing.

03:53We do everything.

03:54So the movie also makes the journey to the combine

03:57incredibly nerve wracking with the amount of pressure

03:59that's put on people.

04:00Was it a pretty accurate portrayal

04:01of that journey as well too?

04:03Yeah, for sure.

04:04I think it shows like the life outside of just them

04:08making it to the draft.

04:10It shows like the hustle as what the movie's called,

04:13like the dedication, the time that it takes

04:16and everything that it takes until getting there.

04:18So I think it was outstanding.

04:21The line that hit the hardest to me,

04:23obsession is gonna be talent every time.

04:25And I'm curious if that applies to filmmaking

04:28and the filmmaking community as well.

04:31Yeah, I mean, I think obsession by extension,

04:35work hours beats talent.

04:38Cause I'm not that talented, but I try to work a lot.

04:41I try to work hard.

04:43I'm curious how much basketball you actually have to shoot,

04:47to film to get the shots that you want,

04:49to get the finished shots that you want,

04:50especially when you have an environment

04:52like you often have in this movie,

04:53which is your players playing in a massive crowd

04:57or trying to pull off specific shots.

04:59How much do you have to actually dedicate to film?

05:03Each game, I think we had four to five days to shoot

05:08and we would choreograph and rehearse them before shooting.

05:13And so the way we did it is we shot the full game

05:17on the first day through what we called Stanley vision.

05:20So that was Adam's perspective of the game.

05:23We'd look at the Stanley vision game

05:28and we would talk about the editorial needs

05:31for the game after that.

05:33And we had a lot of different techniques

05:35that we would use to implement

05:38or to accentuate the moments in between

05:41and heighten the moments in between the game.

05:44And so the editors would cut those different techniques

05:48into a day after day.

05:49So maybe we do a day of tarot,

05:52which was like a tiny little remote control car

05:54that spun around the players,

05:56or a day of closeup dunks,

06:00or a day of whatever it was,

06:02or a day where we would do these different techniques

06:05and we would build the scene throughout the day.

06:07And then the final day,

06:09Louis and Tim, who were the second unit team,

06:12would come in and fill the last little elements

06:15and closeups in with the doubles.

06:19When you walk on that court,

06:20Look at me.

06:23You have to think I am the best guy out there.

06:27Adam, why the Sixers and not the Knicks?

06:31I thought Sixers just felt neat.

06:35That town lives for the Sixers.

06:39I mean, and New York lives for the Knicks too,

06:41but just kind of made more sense.

06:43Made more sense.

06:44Made more sense for,

06:47I think, that's a good question.

06:50I'm gonna come back to you on that one.

06:52All right, sounds good.

06:52Let's timestamp this.

06:54Who wins the finals and in how many games?

06:56Ooh, that's good.

06:57How many games do you think it's gonna take?

06:59I would love to see seven games

07:01and I will go with the Greens.

07:03I will go with Boston.

07:04I used to play there.

07:05I mean, I got a lot of loved ones there.

07:08I mean, I can fall in love with the city,

07:10with the fans, with all the players.

07:12They got the talent.

07:13They wore their ass off and they deserve it.

07:16There you go.

07:17All right, I gotta roll with Steph Curry.

07:19He's my boy from Charlotte, so.

07:20Well, I see you, I see you, Jersey.

07:22Steph Curry, just so you know,

07:27can hit from anywhere.

07:30I've heard this.

07:30Just so you know.

07:32Just so you know.

07:33Yeah, breaking news.

07:35It doesn't matter what angle he's at,

07:37he's gonna find a way.

07:38That's just so you know.

07:39The Celtics and, man,

07:42I don't want Draymond to be mad at me for saying this.

07:45I want Draymond to get another ring, man.

07:47Like, I like the Warriors to win,

07:50but I just think the Celtics got too much.

07:52I might be wrong.

07:53So Draymond, if you see,

07:55because I haven't said this in the previous ones,

07:57Draymond, if you see this,

07:59I want you to get a ring,

08:00but I just don't know if y'all got enough

08:01for Jalen Brown, Tatum, Al Horford,

08:07Peyton Pritchard coming off the bench.

08:08Like, they got a really good team.

08:10All right, last question.

08:11What's the best basketball movie in You Can't Say Hustle?

08:17My favorite?

08:18Sure.

08:19It's Blue Chips.

08:20Oh, it's a great one.

08:22I love Blue Chips.

08:23I think it's amazing.

08:25I think that the,

08:26I think it's amazing.

08:28I love the way they shot basketball.

08:30I love Shaq in it.

08:32You know, I love Nick Nolte's insane in that movie.

08:34I think it's great.

08:37Let's face it.

08:37It's you against you out there.

08:41So let me ask you again.

08:43Do you love this game?

08:51Punch Drunk Love turns 20 this year.

08:53That's great.

08:54And we all look at that movie and we say,

08:56oh, that's the movie that showed other sides of Adam

08:58and what he could do.

08:59But is it, do you really view it as something

09:01that changed a lot for you?

09:03I view it as something that I had an amazing time doing

09:06and it might've opened up other thoughts about me.

09:10I'm sure that happened.

09:12In my brain, I always thought, yeah,

09:14maybe one day I'll do a different style of movie.

09:17And luckily Paul wrote that movie,

09:20called me up, said, let's go.

09:22And I hear about that movie a lot.

09:25So it means a lot to me and I had an amazing time

09:28and Paul's one of my best buddies.

09:31I love him.

09:32And so that's the greatest thing

09:33that happened with that movie.

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