Taking place at a pivotal point in history, the film depicts racial tensions in Virginia during that time.
“The movie is actually very close to what happened,” the real-life Coach Herman Boone toldThe Observer-Reporter.
In the movie, Gerry Bertier was paralyzed in a car crash the week before the state championship game.
While the accident took place after the game in real life, Bertier’s injury was real.
Manycast members of “Remember the Titans” are in completely different placesin life since they made the movie.
He was in denial about his problem for years because of his ability to remain functional as an actor.
“I never drank while I was working or preparing,” the actor toldEsquire.
“I would clean up, go back to work I could do both.”
However, as soon as filming stopped, he would go straight into drinking until his next gig.
“Many months of shooting, bang, it’s time to go.
Three months of wine, then time to go back to work.”
“It probably has more to do with Frank and those guys.
It probably started then well, to be honest, that is where it started,” he said.
He had done drugs in his life, but wine was something else.
There’s a whole culture built around wine tasting, and Washington was deep into it.
He even built a 10,000-bottle wine cellar back in 1999.
The transition into alcoholism was subtle, but the years of abuse had an irreversible impact.
“I’ve done a lot of damage to the body,” the actor said.
He has been clean since 2014.
However, there’s anuntold truth about “The Notebook"star.
While promoting “The Place Beyond the Pines” in 2013, Gosling shared that he needed a break.
“I’ve been doing it too much,” he told The Associated Press (viaE!
“I’ve lost perspective on what I’m doing.
He appeared in six films within three years, and in 2013, he was facing a major burnout.
“I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.”
After the movie, the star went on to join FX’s “Sons of Anarchy.”
The star bonded with his SOA family the way their characters did on-screen.
“These people are much closer than just friends or acquaintances,” he toldEntertainment Weeklyin 2012.
“I couldn’t stop crying.
I tried to talk [Sutter] out of it.”
The actor recalled going through the Kubler-Ross stages of grief.
Hurst had a hard time moving on.
His co-star Charlie Hunnam revealed that Hurst reached out on a sleepless night.
They eventually gathered all the main cast and cut Hurst’s beard as a final farewell.
Wood Harris, who played Julius Campbell in the movie, experienced discrimination while working on the film.
Harris reflected on the encounter and the reality he faces as a Black man.
“We belong to a criminalized culture it’s perceived as criminal before we show up.
It comes from 100 years of ideological placement.”
The meeting was only the tip of the iceberg.
“It’s almost like there’s a culture that doesn’t see the house on fire.”
Acting and drugs used to be ways for him to find comfort.
For a long time, Suplee was deeply dissatisfied with himself.
Food and drugs offered him temporary escape but also made the problem worse.
The first thing he had to do was to get his substance misuse under control.
He had been in and out of rehab until 2002.
Yet, all the terrible feelings that he had toward himself persisted.
“None of it went away at all.”
“I just ballooned out,” the actor toldPeople.
She gained 40 pounds in a very short amount of time.
“It didn’t matter what I did, what I ate.
I know stress and cortisol running through your body can do that.”
It was almost like her body was in defense of the sudden loss.
“I think my body was protecting itself, shielding itself from the world.”
She was beyond heartbroken.
It was as if a part of her had gone with him.
“I felt like I lost half of my soul,” the actor said.
For a long time, Panettiere struggled with the thought of going outside.
“I didn’t recognize myself …
I didn’t feel confident to put on clothes and get out of the house.”
Though she eventually overcame her agoraphobia, she was never the same.
“No matter how many years go by, I will never get over his loss.”
He also shaved his head for the 1995 classic teen movie “Clueless.”
However, the untold truth behind Faison’s iconic look is his real-life struggle with hair loss and baldness.
“The trick is to cut it off before anybody sees it’s falling off.”
And hairline!!”
Her big break came in 2002 when she joinedthe cast of “Blue Crush.
“I felt like I wanted to disappear, I really did.”
Bosworth recalled getting scripts for stereotypical blond girl roles.
The lowest lows came after her breakout.
The couple welcomed their first child, Sophie, in 2005.
“I’ve racked my brain, been to therapy, cried my eyes out with guilt.”
Sophie had to undergo surgery to separate her spinal cord from a mass.
She wanted to stay strong for her daughter, even though it was wrecking her.
“I couldn’t afford to cry.
There was no way.”
In 2006, Sophie developed a neurogenic bladder, a common complication of spinal bifida.
The couple sought alternative medicine as long-term treatment, and she eventually grew up well and happy.
He felt so uncomfortable that he avoided the spotlight while promoting “Armageddon.”
Some people went into acting for passion.
For Patton, acting was the only place he could connect with another human being.
“Some people have almost a kind of sickness, which leads them to health by acting.
Mine came out of shyness.”
The experience of getting into Mac’s head made him deeply uncomfortable.
“The moments you’re portraying this guy, you know, you have to think like this guy.
And it’s not fun,” he broke down in tears, opening up about the experience onOprah.
After playing Mac, he had a hard time looking at himself.
To Williams, Mac wasn’t just another TV villain.
He was reminded of the sufferings and pain of real-life victims constantly while playing the character.
While he’s thankful for the opportunity, it wasn’t a role he would likely play again.
