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LaMarr Woodley Talks About Film School and the Top 5 Wolverines of All Time
Athlon Sports
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6/30/2025
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All right, I'm with Lamar Woodley, Michigan football legend,
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Super Bowl winner with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Tell me what you're up to now.
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Right now I'm enrolled in film school.
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It's a film school in Troy, Michigan called Motion Pictures Institution.
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It's a year-long, four-days-a-week class.
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I go there from 6.30 to 10.30.
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It's hands-on.
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So I'm getting ready for film and production to help my production company grow.
00:27
What type of films do you like making?
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You know, I'm into sports film.
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I'm creating some stuff now kind of like based around sports
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where I'm kind of educating athletes on pitfalls that a lot of athletes fall into
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once money comes into play.
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And it's not just money, but it's family, it's friends.
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It's those off-the-field decisions that will cost you a career.
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And some things that people really don't talk about.
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So it's some scripted stuff where I'm writing and directing.
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So a lot of stories about how to help athletes
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and just get on the right path and I guess what can go wrong.
01:01
Yeah, you know, I think it's important to give some of your younger brothers information.
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You know, so they don't fall in the same pitfalls that you fell in.
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And I think that's just all about, you know, talking about it.
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Being comfortable talking about it.
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Not just a podcast standpoint,
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but sometimes you got to recreate the story and give somebody a visual.
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And that's what I'm doing with my production once I get out of film school.
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When did you think, like, wow, this is something I'm really interested in doing,
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taking that type of life lesson and putting it in film?
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When I got taken advantage of.
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There you go.
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I started thinking about that because, you know, as a creator,
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your mind going a lot of different places and you don't know exactly what to create of,
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what's your niche, what you want to create.
01:44
And when I started to look back at my life,
01:46
I realized a lot of stuff that I do is try to educate people
01:49
and try to give them information so they can grow
01:51
and not make the same mistake that you made.
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But once I realized I was somewhat of a creator back in 2011,
01:58
well, I knew I was an artist before then.
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I mean, when I started, went to do films, I feel like this is my niche.
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This is my story.
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I'm an athlete.
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I experienced this background.
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I played at the highest level.
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I played at respectful places like Michigan, Pittsburgh Steelers.
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I've been All-American.
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I won awards.
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Not to tune my horn, but I guess I really am.
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But I played at the highest of the high.
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And I had a chance to experience stuff on and off the field
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and really taking advantage of really being a student athlete,
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going back to school and getting my master's degree
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in sports counseling, minor in sports management.
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That was back in 2017.
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And now I'm going back to school now,
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I'm educating myself on the next thing that I'm taking up on.
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What's your favorite thing about the whole filmmaking process?
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My favorite thing about the filmmaking process is the team thing.
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It kind of reminds me of football.
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It's a team thing.
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Everybody on that production plays a major role
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in making the project come to life,
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even people that you don't see.
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We see you right now on camera,
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but you can't see the man behind the camera holding the camera,
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making sure we stay in focus, making sure the sound is right.
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Now that you're in sort of a mentor role,
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what's one piece of advice you'd give to someone
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who's retiring from a professional sport that's called the NFL
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who might not become a broadcaster or a coach?
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They don't know exactly where they're going to go
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in the next chapter of life.
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You know, some advice that I would give to any athletes
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making the transition is that, man,
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they gave us so many skills being an athlete.
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You know, we'll go out here and play in zero-degree weather.
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We'll go out here playing with a broken arm.
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So they really mentally prepared you to do anything.
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They prepared us to play on Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthday.
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Somebody died.
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Go to the funeral, come back, and go to practice the next day.
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So you've been mentally prepared
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almost like you was in the military a little bit.
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My dad was in the military.
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That's how I kind of compare it a little bit
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because we talk about it.
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But those skills that you learn on the field
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is the same skills that I take in film production.
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Like I said earlier,
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it takes a team to create a good production.
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And that's how I run my production company like a team,
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you know, because we all work together
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to make the magic come to life.
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So what I'll tell athletes is just
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use the skills that they already gave you
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and learn how to take those skills
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and apply them somewhere else.
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And don't be afraid to do it.
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I like that.
04:23
Who are your top five Michigan football players of all time?
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Ooh, shit.
04:27
Excuse me.
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But no order.
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No order.
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Mike Hart.
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Jake Long.
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Charles Woodson.
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How many is that?
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Three.
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Oh, Lamar Woodley.
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Boom.
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You got to put him, man.
04:39
All-American.
04:39
Lombardi Award winner.
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Who I'm going to give that last spot to?
04:43
Man, I'm going to give it to Braylon Edwards.
04:45
Water Seager.
04:46
Yeah, I'm going to give it to Braylon Edwards.
04:47
Yeah.
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I mean, it's a lot of great Michigan athletes.
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And you already know how many
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give your top five how it is.
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But everybody can't be on the list, man.
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And I wasn't going to leave me off the list.
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So the numbers don't lie.
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