"Like I said, they’re really looking for authenticity here (with Moneyball) and they’re trying to make it a story as well as a baseball flick." " Bull Durham and Field of Dreams were the two that were really significant in their stories as well as their baseball content," he began to explain. Those are the three that I really liked," says Bishop. Bull Durham, I really like that and Field of Dreams, I really like that. With so many good baseball films throughout the years, though, where does Bishop think Moneyball will rank? And what other baseball films does he personally think it compares well with?
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With the drama and insights into the characters and their mindsets that make up the story and how the A's built their playoff bound team, accompanied by authentic baseball scenes comprised of high level players, this movie certainly has looked promising in previews and trailers. So Where Will Moneyball Wind up Among Other Baseball Movies? All the guys in the film, as far as the A’s players are either pros or high level college players because they wanted REAL authenticity there."
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So having the minor league experience and the pro experience, they knew I’d be able to bring some authenticity to the film that they really wanted. "When people who knew David, like Chad Kreuter, saw me and saw how I handled myself at the plate and how I handled myself in the outfield, they were like ‘yeah, this is the guy,' " he said. I’ve been a baseball player all my life, so it was second nature for me." "It definitely helped me because I walk and carry myself like a baseball player. "We had some tryouts where we had to show our baseball skills," Bishop explains. So to protect against this in Moneyball, the producers had baseball tryouts as one of the requirements for auditioning for the movie. "They really wanted to guard against that in this movie and they set out to make the greatest baseball movie ever made, and hopefully they accomplished that." "We’ve all seen so many baseball movies where the guy who’s supposed to be the star looks like he’s never swung a bat in his life or picked up a ball to throw it, and yet they put him in there as the superstar baseball player and it just reads phony," he says. He explained, though, that the majority of the ballplayers in the movie were also high-level baseball players. It was really cool, it gave me a bit of an advantage and made other aspects of shooting the film a little easier." "I studied him as a kid so I knew his physicality and his baseball mannerisms like the back of my hand. "Being able to play David, it wasn’t weird, it was really actually cool because it was easy for me to slip into him physically because I knew him, I knew some of his mannerisms," he said. It blows my mind," he adds.īut did his friendship with Justice interfere at all with his portrayal of the role? Was it weird to play a one-time idol and friend in a film? Not according to Stephen. "I idolized him as a kid before I met him so having the chance to meet him, then finally become friends with him and then to play him in a film, it’s just such a serendipitous thing. You treat him how you treat me.' So he’s been a friend of mine for a long time, I’m very happy to be able to play him in a film." "He’d walk me around the clubhouse and the city telling everybody 'This is my little brother. Our resemblance to each other was so uncanny that we sort of gravitated to each other, he took me under his wing and became a mentor and a friend." "I was in the minor leagues, he was in the major leagues. "I’ve been friends with David since we played in the Braves organization," Stephen told me.
"To be able to play an A’s player, run around in that uniform and run around on the Coliseum field for a few weeks was a dream come true for me." So yeah, I grew up watching the A’s," he added. "I actually got a chance to go in their clubhouses a few times, meet their players. "The A’s stadium wasn’t as freezing cold as Candlestick park, so I spent most of my pro baseball watching days at the Oakland Coliseum."
"The A’s were the local team, it was the A’s or the Giants," Stephen told me. Talking with Stephen was a pleasure in itself, his enthusiasm for the project was evident in his voice throughout the conversation.Ī graduate of Camolindo High School in Moraga, he is a local talent who jumped at the opportunity to wear the uniform of the team he grew up rooting for in his younger years. Bishop was gracious enough to spend about 15 minutes answering my questions about the movie and how his unique experiences leading up to the making of this movie shaped the final product we will see on the screen.
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